You currently have a nationalist authoritarian government that is bent on curbing civil rights and is economically incompetent. It's not hard to imagine why China is doing better economically.
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It also happens at a different layer of abstraction. Cambridge Analytica extracted data through the permissions framework that Facebook itself implemented.
Facebook's interest in its users' data doesn't need further explanation after you see that most of their profits derive from their control over it. The same control that allowed the profitable mass political targeting that these researchers are trying to study.
That's fucking bullshit. They make millions.
> Another unsolved problem where this approach shows promise is one of the most disturbing aspects of neural nets: No one really understands how they work. Training bits enter at one end and prediction bits emerge from the other, but what happens in between — the exact process that makes neural nets into such good guessers — remains a critical open question.
> Symbolic math, on the other hand, is decidedly less mysterious. “We know how math works,” said Charton. “By using specific math problems as a test to see where machines succeed and where they fail, we can learn how neural nets work.”
> [...] it only included equations with one variable, and only those based on elementary functions. “It was a thin slice of possible expressions,”
> The neural net wasn’t tested on messier functions often used in physics and finance, like error functions or Bessel functions. (The Facebook group said it could be, in future versions, with very simple modifications.)
> Other critics have noted that the Facebook group’s neural net doesn’t really understand the math; it’s more of an exceptional guesser.
> Still, they agree that the new approach will prove useful.
Absolute idots. Cryptography benefits _everyone_, and this bullshit is at the expense of everyone.
Have a reasonable security model please
For encrypted data there is virtually no memory overhead but a guarded allocated has to be created to hold the decrypted data when it is needed.
The root encryption key is stored within a special container [0, 1] that has some small but constant CPU overhead as it is continuously mutating the memory associated with the structure in the background. This overhead can be tweaked (or even virtually eliminated) by changing the interval between successive cycles.
> keys.openpgp.org is a new experimental keyserver which is not part of the keyserver network and has some features which make it resistant to this sort of attack. It is not a drop-in replacement: it has some limitations (for instance, its search functionality is sharply constrained). However, once you make this change you will be able to run gpg --refresh-keys with confidence.
I understand that developing a browser is expensive work and Mozilla need money to do it. I support them in this effort. But honestly no ones gonna buy this
> the company is now distancing itself from the 5-minute video after Chinese social media users cried foul
> “Do you even deserve to collaborate with our patriotic Huawei?” one Weibo user said about Leica