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woko··on An update on our security incident
What if the 8 non-verified accounts are alt-accounts used by celebs/VIPs for personal communication?

Let us imagine that I am Jeff Bezos, why would I use my official account to DM people? I would rather use one where I look like everybody so that it is less likely to be the target of an attack.

woko··on Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?
Dick pics are what lead a candidate for Paris Mayor election to resign this year. It is a powerful item against some people.
woko··on Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
It reminds me of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi), and then this appears in the article. Coincidence?

> According to a 2016 blog profile, Mr. Saleh was born in Saudi Arabia, and moved with his family quite a bit before settling in Rochester, N.Y., and, later, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

woko··on Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app
I wonder whether that means that The Valley of Gods will eventually be finished... or to the contrary, not at all.

This is a game which was being developed by a studio called Campo Santo. The devs were hired by Valve, but they could still work on their game at Valve. At some point, the devs were really happy (based on their social media accounts) to switch and devote all their time to Half-Life Alyx instead, and the development of their original game was put on an indefinite hold. Now that Half-Life Alyx was released, what does that quote imply for The Valley of Gods?

woko··on Yoloface-500k: ultra-light real-time face detection model, 500kb
Of course, they are not directly used without changing the training data, etc. However, if we look at the big picture to make a general statement, then the advances brought by Computer Vision on natural images often help push research on medical images forward, albeit with a year (or two) of delay. One such example is U-Net (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Net).
woko··on It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowards Who Let It Happen
Ms. Wente was not cancelled, her invitation was. The goal was to provide a "safe" environment, so people who are deemed "unsafe" are excluded. That is inviting-people-101, it is not new.
woko··on AlphaGo given honorary 9 dan rank by Korean Baduk Association
AlphaGo hasn't been trained on Lee's games.
woko··on Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
Sorry but what you describe is not what supervised learning means. It has a specific meaning in AI. At best, what you describe is reinforcement learning. And I don't think this is how we learn to recognize people's faces.
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