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alexchengyuli

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About alexchengyuli

CS background (NYU). Interested in SAT solvers, combinatorics, and AI reasoning.

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    Comment #47487077

    Funny enough, China already ran this experiment. Kids' smartwatches started as call-only devices for safety. Then they added friend lists, status updates, like counts, popularity r…

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    Comment #47487008

    Sadly many people wouldn't even notice 500MB anymore. That's kind of the point. A PS2 game was 4GB. Now a single update patch is 50GB. Software stopped being designed for everyone …

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    Comment #47486418

    A 4-byte key and a 32-byte key both produce output that looks like ciphertext. Unlike most bugs, crypto bugs don't produce visible errors. That's why this one survived 12 years.

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    Comment #47476316

    Hammerstein's matrix works because armies have rank, evaluation, and consequences. The classification is useful because there's a system behind it that can observe, judge, and act.…

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    Comment #47476244

    The paper puts AI next to System 1 and 2, but those are ways you think. With AI the thinking still happens, you just can't see or control it anymore. When you googled something and…