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hackguru

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    There are a lot of efforts in developing models that understand causal relationships within mainstream machine learning community. Mostly to train models that don't require a lot o…

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    What do you mean by computers handling ambiguity? At the end of the day for a idea to become cristalized it needs to be free from ambiguity. That is the case even in human interact…

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    There is an upper bound limit for how abstract a general purpose programming language can become. Programming languages mainly exist because of their ability to remove ambiguity. O…

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    I am in no position to question EM. But I was hoping he would give some good explanation for spending resources on SolarCity acquisition but nothing. Nothing in this master plan ex…

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    Comment #12105348

    Since agents need to be authenticated once with users, the replay vulnerability should not be a concern. But a malware that sits on a client and potentially can access to agent key…

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    I knew someone will catch that. I was a bit sloppy on that sentence :) I will have to improve it. 1- We only need secure multi-party computation algorithm if we cannot trust the se…

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    Comment #11949763

    So two companies with great potential. One (Solar City) has a problem convincing investors and is exposed to wide fluctuations and the other (Tesla) is pretty good at managing expe…

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    What does this mean for PowerShell?

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    True. I am cautious to say this, but if one of these over valued unicorns like Uber dies then I think the psychological effect would be similar to a bubble burst. It would tight up…

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    Alternative to advertising for user acquisition

    Recently the cost of advertising on effective platforms like Facebook that has good targeting tools is getting really high. User acquisition for mobile apps can even go as high as …

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    Danger of unencrypted civilian GPS

    More and more self operating devices like cars and drones are coming to market and many use civilian GPS to navigate. Since GPS signals are not encrypted can this pose a threat? Ca…

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    Is he gonna run out of charge between any two stations?

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    Comment #9718052

    True. I don't think this process encourages anybody to commit physical crime. But physical crime has higher barrier to entry than cyber crime and turning what currently is a cyber …

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    It would be even better if the money would go to exposer through bit coins or something that is not easily traceable. There is probably tax complications that needs to be sorted ou…

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