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napping_penguin

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    Comment #49223346

    I recently came across a really interesting piece of privacy technology. Suppose you have a model M and a prompt P. The technique allows you to create an obfuscated prompt Q such t…

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    Comment #49091968

    Ah, sloppy language on my part. It should be 5 of fewer questions. I'll fix it, thank you!

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    Comment #49088112

    You are right, your argument establishes the lower bound: D(4) >= 5 (you will need at least 5 questions in the worst case). The interesting bit is to come up with a strategy to mak…

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    Comment #49086454

    Thank you for the feedback, I will address this in the post.

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    Comment #49085943

    Good catch but it's intentional. The engine behind the first simulator for 4-cards is adversarial and hence appears a bit deterministic. - Adversarial engine: Will always respond w…

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    Comment #49070342

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    Show HN: Privacy-first work journal with no backend

    Hi HN! I built Scribe Notes to solve a problem I kept having: to get organized with my daily work and solve the "explain what you did today and why you should still be employed" pr…