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dgmdoug

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    Comment #40671442

    They also don't do a comparison with Pied Piper.

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    Comment #25033564

    I think the title here is overly inflammatory. To suggest there is a 'fair right' to data behind encryption for goverment use, to my mind, somewhat misses the point of encryption a…

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    Comment #16231243

    If 14 year olds know more about the security vulnerabilities of our most highly adopted computer systems than the professionals which use and safeguard/build them, then it would sa…

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    Comment #10900664

    "...and an agreement with everybody in the house to check before picking up the telephone handset." This! If anything I think the challenge provided us with a reason to explore. Th…

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    Comment #10900602

    What, 2? ;-)

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    Comment #10575792

    I missed a trick it seems. Should have posted a link where I could track conversions. :-/

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    Comment #10573609

    I'll weigh in on morgante's side here. What WB discusses is a common misconception. Just because it doesn't appear to work for yourself, doesn't mean that targeting is not worthwhi…

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    Comment #10097268

    It really worries me that the leader of our nation does not appear to have all the information required in order to make a decision on a topic as important as this. I would have th…

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    Comment #9763869

    I concur -- travelling in Boston can be frustrating for those who are inexperienced. They use 'inbound' and 'outbound', but without knowledge of the centre point for that line this…

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    Comment #9566828

    It was written in 2012 and is a fairly well known and accessible text! Pedro is an excellent speaker, if you ever get chance to hear him I highly recommend it.

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    Comment #8704211

    Isn't part of the problem that we place this artificial wall between academia and industry? I often found myself confused in this respect. I attained my PhD a number of years ago, …

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    Comment #7822606

    Limited company in the UK generally as a tax efficiency for consultancy.

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    Comment #6754223

    I think it's more to do with the application of parallel MC to approximate inference over Bayesian networks. In the normal case of approximate inference, each node would operate ov…

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    Comment #6739240

    I think the most dangerous thing here is the branding of research as something new, that Musk has invented. I worked in academic and industrial research for a number of years, and …