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Comment · 1 year ago
Any realist assessment of the power structure in SK (in general, and much more so in the military) has to acknowledge the history and presence of US military in Korea.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just Russia?
Comment · 1 year ago
The OP uses finite fields and fields are basically harmonic structures (think modular math). Assume the field is the numbers 0..n-1 MOD n. At (n-1) + 1 you will get n MOD n which is equivalent to 0 MOD n which is 0. Now assume n-1 approaches infinity; is 0 not ∞ ?
Comment · 1 year ago
There is a word for that: a 'recording'. There is no observer thus no observation.
Comment · 1 year ago
Another reading would see this "lawfare" narrative as a device to fool the citizenry. Both sides know they will get pardoned but by having "lawfare" give the impression (to the impressionable and propagandized public) that we do not have in this nation a ruling class that protects its own and does as it pleases.
Comment · 1 year ago
> it observes

Observe implies sentience that, without question, a neural net simply does not possess. "It" certainly 'records', or more specifically it 'maps', but there is no observer in sight (npi).

> mimic

LLM's do not mimic. The magic is mathematical and happening in the high dimensional space. If there is intrinsic underlying pattern and semantic affinities between process X (used in training) and process Y (used in application), it is very likely that both share proximity, possibly form, in some dimensions of the high dimensional model.

Comment · 1 year ago
TIL "10 billion apples a year get picked by hand in the state of Washington".

Interview question: estimate number of pickers and number of trees.

Comment · 1 year ago
Something really off imho with a food writer that manages to insert foul matter vulgarity into food reviews. It's moved beyond cute into the 'wonder what ails this guy' territory.
Comment · 1 year ago
Good to know. But does that also mean that e.g. splitting the full output to n 256 chunks would mean there is correlation between the chunks? (I always assumed one could grab any number of bits (from anywhere) in a cryptographic hash.)
Comment · 1 year ago
? If I use something like Blake3 (which is super fast and emits gobs of good bits) and encode a node with say 512 bits of the hash, you are claiming that somehow I am vulnerable to tampering because the hash function is fast? What is the probable number of attempts to forge a document D' that hashes to the very same hash? And if the document in structured per a standard format, you have even less degrees of freedom in forging a fake. So yes, a Merkel tree definitely can provide very strong guarantees against tampering.
Comment · 1 year ago
Theoretically they even have a better security environment (since it is internal and they control users, code base and network) so the consensus mechanism may not even require BFT.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Help us stop this insanity and participate in our research

The hyperbole here raised the possibility of OP being preparatory step for a sales pitch for a product.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is there an underlying assumption that the channels are containers and not streams?

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