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OceanSunfish

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OceanSunfish··on P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)
These briefs don't mention it by name, but this technology seems like "DNA Vaccination" that has been in research for some years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_vaccination

OceanSunfish··on WebGPU Shading Language
A webkit blogpost from 2018 claims SPIR-V may not be possible to fully secure in a web context. I'm uncertain of the progress or if the original claim was legitimate, but I believe the current experimental implementations of WebGPU do not protect against raw gpu memory access.

https://webkit.org/blog/8482/web-high-level-shading-language...

OceanSunfish··on The patent on SIFT expired yesterday
Imho a CNN is like a generalization of what SIFT does, so a CNN can be trained to be equivalent to SIFT, but it can also be trained with more specific features for your use case.
OceanSunfish··on People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report
Sure, all of those things created large economic gains for their respective economies. It's a question of how much of that economic gain can we capture with taxation.
OceanSunfish··on Malawi legalises the growing, selling and export of cannabis
Soil / fertilizer is possibly a limiting factor.
OceanSunfish··on Bot Submissions to Comment Website Can’t Be Distinguished from Human Submissions
This is tangential, but I wonder if the problem with "bot commenting" isn't inherent to forum-style discussion. When our only channel for analysis/criticism is ephemeral comment sections, we lose the ability to compare related discussions of a topic over time, or to rectify disagreements that occur across several threads, or even across different sub-trees of discussion.

Compared to a wiki-style website, where all angles of the argument can be collected into one place to make a cohesive comparative overview; as forum-users, we are left stranded in noisy content, and we rely on making heuristic judgements based on popularity of certain opinions and stubbornness of certain commenters. Bots make easy work of exploiting these flawed heuristics.

OceanSunfish··on State of JavaScript 2019
> you wanna learn react and you never used an arrow function, wtf

At least in the early days, using React was the first time most people would be exposed to webpack/babel, so it was also their first exposure to the newer JS features.

OceanSunfish··on The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions
Sheep are rational agents when they are surrounded by wolves.
OceanSunfish··on San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density
The term "cartel" is interesting here, if the power structure is indeed the voting population of San Francisco being predominantly homeowners, then as those homeowners are the suppliers of the housing market, it is a cartel in form.
OceanSunfish··on Urbit
Perhaps the idea is that updates provided by OpenBSD or another OS for example could be compromised or simply directed to an unpopular path, but in this way a "senate" of code reviewers with known biases provides a more democratic way of reviewing updates before publish.