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troq13on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

Funny how the decline of American hegemony over social media coincides with Americans arguing social media should be nation-specific.

troq13on Is Google a good place to work? I hear it is deteriorating in quality

I bet the menial tasks are the most fun parts of the job.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

My point is they don't even need to do that. If people cant get paid there is no ecosystem of content. Plus why would TikTok themselves care about this after they leave the American market.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

What will happen to the creators that make a living on TikTok...

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

Unclear what your conspiracy is, it is a fact you can get around a government ban with a VPN. It just doesn't solve the problem at hand.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

Creators can't get paid, advertisers can't advertise, the whole ecosystem dies. Sure you can still access the app with a VPN but that's just 4chan with extra steps.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

If the creators can't make money they will stop using it.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

What a trip you are on. You can't be in war with the country that produces all the stuff you have in your house.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

Does it spew Chinese propaganda though? Have you even used TikTok?

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

"you don't get Nancy Pelosi and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the same side unless there is some serious fire"

All you need to convince American politicians of anything is jingling keys and cash. Plus MTG opposed the original TikTok bill, they only voted in favor when it was packed together with sending money for Israel.

troq13on Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

>A spin to a US company is not enough. It needs to cease operating in the US because there’s no surety that even with a spin data and sharing won’t get back to ByteDance China.

At this level of paranoia you may as well ban Facebook and other social media as there is no guarantee their data is not getting intercepted by China.

troq13on The "it" in AI models is the dataset

Weak argument for something everyone already knew. Nice you work at openAI, I guess.

troq13on TikTok Ban Measure Attached to House Foreign Aid Bill, Boosting Odds of Passage

In their minds these are all measures to counter the "China-Russia-Iran" block.

troq13on Startup Idea: Reverse Amazon

Giving something away on "Buy Nothing" seems like the same amount of work as selling the thing to me (except with no money exchange).

troq13on Startup Idea: Reverse Amazon

That would be very nice. My suspicion is that a certain amount of work from the former owner, or from someone who is very knowledgeable about that type of object, is required to explain the value of the item to a potential buyer. Somehow the objects themselves are not the limiting factor (trash is full of good stuff that mostly stay there, because there is no one to do this work).

It could work if the item was originally bought on Amazon and one could just point to the original listing, though.

troq13on LLMs approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology

Well it is not going anywhere near my eyes.

troq13on Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide

This type of software is often abused by people to spy on their partners...

troq13on Ramanujan's lost notebook

The results of his collaboration with Hardy (the approximations for the partition function and the circle method) make it clear he knew well what he was doing. Nobody was doing anything similar at the time.

troq13on Why We Practice Magic

Science is much older than that.

The modern peer review process (as a way to decide which papers get "accepted" vs "rejected") began no earlier than the 1960's.

troq13on Ramanujan's lost notebook

It seems like a misconception that Ramanujan could not explain his reasoning.

He did not write it down on his notebooks (and before going to England he mostly lacked the language of formal proofs to do it), but for the most part the equations are arranged in a logical order, and when meeting with Hardy he had no trouble explaining where each equation came from (though a lot of his reasoning was too unrigorous for Hardy's liking).

troq13on Ramanujan's lost notebook

"we don't know anything about his math generation process" My man just look at the notebooks. He did not use formal proofs but he was very organized and most of his equations had quite a logical buildup from equations that he wrote before. And even the ones that came out of nowhere are obviously worthy discoveries.

troq13on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days

What do you mean? The parts are all made in China.

troq13on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days

Every Tesla owner I know is constantly taking their car for maintenance and "small fixes".

troq13on Tesla Cybertruck's Stuck Accelerator Pedal Creates 6,800-Pound Land Missile

I bet that most of these design decisions were made by the same Chinese manufacturers that design the cheap stuff we buy on eBay. And when China inevitably starts producing a cheaper tesla alternative they will go looking for a spy like they were not the ones who designed it in the first place...

troq13on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

Sadly you are like the 6th google employee I personally told about this (and it is still up).

troq13on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hbo-watch-party/dn...

This is the link to the malicious extension.

troq13on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

Actually never mind, I double checked and it was just HBO watch party (it is still up and has the malware). I appreciate if you can take a look at this.

troq13on Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model

"you already used these socks, why wouldn't you sell them to a stranger for $3"

troq13on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

Yes I am checking the link my friend sent me now it it was that one, it is down. Thank you for your interest.

troq13on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems

It is a pretty random example, but it is meant to say that the math is rarely the limiting factor for security. People spend time thinking about this type of stuff because they like it, not because it is actually important for security.

In my mind RSA is the last instance of a mathematical development changing the game of security. After that it is twists of the same idea on more obscure mathematical objects, and pyrotechnic protocols that only the truly unhinged (ethereum people) are willing to try out in practice.