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Comment · 6 months ago
That chart implies it is possible for somebody to write a work that wins the Hugo awards for best novelette and best novella, which I’d really like to see happen!
Comment · 8 months ago
Wow, that's incredible. Even though I'm from Hessen, I never thought of making that connection!
Comment · 1 year ago
Now you’ve just shifted the problem to a much harder statement: proving the things the NN recognizes as a rose is actually a rose.

You cannot get rid of the enviroment, and the best thing you can do is be explicit in what you rely on. For example, formally verified operating systems often rely on hardware correctness, even though the errata sheets for modern CPUs are hundreds of pages long.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think there’s potential for a second-order effect here: generate enough vulnerabilities and SoC designers will start to put it out themselves.
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like a trivial outage, but this is apparently the only region that runs, among others, the US visa application service...
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is that terrible?

Presumably it is much harder to sell now. If you didn’t want it, why buy it in the first place?

Comment · 5 years ago
There are even cases where it is context-depedent: Maße (measurements) and Masse (mass). Both are written MASSE uppercased, but how do you know which one's which?

For additional fun: Swiss German doesn't use ß at all, so there is no difference between "in Maßen genießen" (to enjoy in moderation) and "in Massen genießen" (to enjoy in large amounts).

Comment · 5 years ago
Except that it isn't used widely yet, if at all.
Comment · 5 years ago
Not really, because for undecidable problems semidecidability can only hold one-way. If it held in both ways then the language would be decidable.

Take the Halting program for example: For a program p which halts, you can determine whether it will halt in finite time (because by definition it halts). However, there is no semidecidable algorithm for "this program runs infinitely long".

Comment · 6 years ago
Nitpick: the reduction function is not one way, since an important property of hashes is that they are easy to compute.
Comment · 6 years ago
Because there is no clear jurisdiction for the web. That's it.
Comment · 6 years ago
I must say I never dove into the internals of base64 encoding, but this does indeed make a lot of sense :)

Thanks!

Comment · 6 years ago
A very very good example of correlation != causation.
Comment · 6 years ago
The TTL field isn't cryptographically protected though, so it should be very possible that there's an actor after Airtel which does the censoring, no?

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