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All of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.

At the risk of some meta-irony, important to point out that Goodhart was an economist.

The headline on this had me very confused; surely not even Tesla would implement something like this without a crypto challenge-response in there somewhere?

They did not. This attack relies on 2 devices: one next to the car and one next to the phone. It is tunneling the bluetooth link, but you still need an authorized phone at the other end of the tunnel (to respond to the crypto challenge).

EDIT: it had me confused because I saw "Relay Attacks" and parsed it as "Replay Attacks". Now getting more coffee ...

Odd to refer to Redis as a general-purpose database:

"Hive is not meant to become a general-purpose database, like Redis"

Assume that is an error and they meant to say MySQL (or similar)? Or I'm seriously misunderstanding something.

One option would be to use a setup similar to offshore sailors and cruisers:

https://www.cruiserswiki.org/wiki/Email_at_Sea

or, more generally, amateur band based radio links:

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

The radios themselves get less and less expensive each year, especially with software defined radios, but unsure how easily/quickly one could get their hands on the required gear in Addis.

In 2031, fully self driving cars will be just as imminent as they are now :-)

I'm a long way from a (copyright) attorney, so I really don't know what I'm talking about on the finer points.

In general, of course, the act of creating is what currently confers copyright. So if you write some code, for example, you automatically hold the copyright. No need to do anything official or call a lawyer.

But you're correct that there are exceptions for older works that were never published or formally registered under the old (pre-1978 system). So yup, my (pretty much worthless) opinion agrees with your reading that it would be 70 years after 1983. And who knows, the Mighty Mouse might might well rise up again as 2024 approaches (the current date when Mickey Mouse will otherwise enter the public domain).

But

At the risk of nit-picking, if the work was written more that 100 years ago, then the copyright has almost certainly already expired (barring some quite rare circumstances).

Nothing preventing you from publishing it, and a useful forward or other newly written content would, of course, be automatically copyrighted (copyrights, at least in the US, only need to be "registered" if you want to sue someone :-)

And you can order a bound paperback book made from the scans of just about any out-of-copyright google book. From the Harvard Bookstore (or anyone else that has an Espresso Book Machine):

https://www.ondemandbooks.com/as/?t=Hamlet&c=google

Pythagoras?

Super easy to power a Pi from DC only. Many (most) USB ports will work (the amperage draw can be a bit much for some older lighter-style USB power adapters).

The power draw from our dedicated device (https://floathub.com/store) is much lower than a Pi, but you don't get the advantage of a general purpose computer that can run other stuff at the same time.

Blatant self promotion, we do this at some scale:

https://floathub.com

And there's a guide to using our open source software-only option on a Pi:

https://medium.com/@floathub/open-source-boat-monitoring-7ea...

Contacting the author of the parent version now to compare notes :-)

After everyone had politely to apologized to each other, and to the Beaver, they had a few Nanaimo Bars and all was well.

While we don't have a standalone AIS hardware product, we do have hardware and software that lets you relay AIS data both to us and out to other vessel monitoring systems. More data here:

https://support.floathub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001334348-...

software only version here:

https://github.com/floathub/sfh

drop a note if you want any more info.

This title seems very misleading given the study described. They have found a correlation between some neurons firing in sequence and a list of words being spoken from memory. We don't have any concrete understanding of how memories are really encoded, stored, and recalled. Indeed, we don't even know if "encoded", "stored", and "recalled" are useful approximations for what's really going on in there. So suggesting that we have found some specific time keeping module seems awfully hand-wavy (at best) to me.

This is why the strict core of microeconomics never allows one to make interpersonal utility comparisons. As soon as you start to try and figure out "best" outcomes across groups (beyond ability to pay), it gets really complicated, really quickly. This is the domain of areas like Social Choice:

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

Adaptation == Learning

This was at the early stages of a lot of agent based modeling, genetic algorithms, etc., etc. And John Holland wrote a book called Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems[1]. The universality of the idea that "simple" adaptation is learning applied to a lot of different domains was crisp and very powerful.

1. (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/adaptation-natural-and-artifi...)

Of course everyone comes at these things with different histories and different intrinsic interests. But I really enjoyed fundamental stuff like:

* the concept of assignment implying _time_ and messing with the substitution model.

* recursive functions that are iterative

* iterative structures that are recursive

* At the base of the base of the data abstraction in LISP is, well, nothing.

* Code as data, data as code, really strongly underlined.

* The whole LISP written in itself (as a sort of fixed point of a language that defines a language). That is really something.

* The idea of using a language to write a language that lets you express your problem.

That last one is probably obvious to most, but it was really novel to me (despite years of writing functions to compute answers).

Learn LISP/Scheme and lots of fundamental concepts you probably have a feel for, but in a far more profound way:

1. First watch the SICP series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...)

2. Then work through the book (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...)

If you really do the exercises (an hour here and an hour there), you can feel you brain getting wrapped around many core notions in very illuminating ways.

See how precious little I know about encryption? And yet even I know that ECB is a terrible choice!

(In minor defense of self, I should have said CBC or "later").

That is truly amazing. I know precious little about encryption, but I assumed everyone knows that ECB is bad and that CBC is the only sensible way to do AES.

[edited for typo]

Am intrigued by the mention of "re-watches" for Arcadia. Is there some filmed production of the play which is available on video? Have never been able to find one ...

Yes. And that ttlappalainen project generally inherits from the CANBoat project.

This looks well designed and thought out. Does anyone know if it has been applied to NMEA-2000 (a marine electronics flavor of CANbus)?

At one point in Canada, it was possible to have three valid Passports. A regular one, one for travel to Israel, and one for travel to South Africa.

Israel would give you a very hard time if you had visas/stamps from neighbouring Arab states (and vice versa).

Under Apartheid, South African visas/stamps made it very difficult to enter other sub-saharan African countries.

Could not agree more.

In fact, I find Foucault's Pendulum, in many ways, very strongly supports skepticism in all realms. And adds the sort of lovely literary tinge that if anything can be made to "prove" anything (in "The Plan"), then of course nothing truly proves anything. And so the age of modernity/reason leaves us flailing in uncertainty (science is always skeptical, never certain).

And it's such a hoot to boot.

OP here: We recently released a software package that lets a boat owner monitor their vessel without any proprietary hardware. It's open source (https://github.com/floathub/sfh), and the above linked article is essentially a walkthrough of how to get it working on a Raspberry Pi. Thought it might be of interest here, please let us know if any questions.

Boating related, boating failure:

https://floathub.com/foobar

Subjective it may be, but the greatest opening line in all of literature is surely:

"The beet is the most intense of vegetables."

From Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.