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"Strong Whitney" is the claim that in many circumstances this style is _better_ than a more normal style, with full variable names, whitespace, etc. I am much less persuaded by that claim. When the article says things like "Note that d probably stands for “dimension” or perhaps “depth”; I’m unsure on this point." I'm like, yes, congratulations, that is exactly the point of using more descriptive names and/or comments.

Comment · 11 months ago

I don't think we have enough information to conclude exactly what happened. But my read is the researcher was looking for demo.filevine.com and found margolis.filevine.com instead. The implication is that many other customers may have been vulnerable in the same way.

Comment · 11 months ago

Lawyers can and will send cease and desist letters to people whether or not there is any legal basis for it. Often the threat of a lawsuit, even a meritless one, is enough to keep people quiet.

Comment · 1 year ago

ArXiv has always had a moderation step. The moderators are unable to keep up with the volume of submissions. Accepting these reviews without moderation would be a change to current process, not "just like arXiv has always worked"

Comment · 1 year ago

Hillel Wayne posted a followup https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formal... which may be interesting. Essentially the issue is "what does the Length of a string mean?"

Comment · 1 year ago

"As soon as profit can be made" is exactly what the article is warning about. This is exactly the "Human + AI" combination.

Within your lifetime (it's probably already happened) you will be denied something you care about (medical care, a job, citizenship, parole) by an AI which has been granted the agency to do so in order to make more profit.

Comment · 1 year ago

As I understand it, they persuade their marks to transfer bitcoin to accounts they control.

Comment · 1 year ago

But what do you do when the primary and backup disagree?

Comment · 1 year ago

Actually no - there's a "please help fund us" but you can read without paying

Comment · 1 year ago

Not exactly the same, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome... is a technique used in radio astronomy which uses two receivers a long way apart and a very accurate clock to approximate having a radio telescope the size of the distance between them. By putting one receiver on a satellite, measurements have been made with a separation of 300,000km.