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The company has issued a "statement regarding recent allegations made at Black Hat 2019 [0]. For anyone interested, the statement links to the guy's paper [1] "where he identified the first Infinite Prime Number prediction pattern". > Utilizing multi-dimensional encryption technology, including time, music’s infinite variability, artificial intelligence, and most notably mathematical constancies to generate entangled…
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How much does your bullshit detector hit with their promo video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_2HwAmge8
That video is amazing. The conference is really playing into Time AIs game by censoring it. Underlying the story that this new technology is just too big and too groundbreaking for the industry to accept :-D
https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert_E_Grant_/status/1160226095...
This reminds me of a person who somehow managed an invitation to give a presentation at UC Berkeley on database compression in 1993, with similar levels of snake-oil. I remember one of the funnier moments, a theme of the presentation was how there were more and more large data sets out there, including the Library of Congress. In a burst of enthusiasm, the presenter gushed about how they even had a Stradivarius violi…
I read your comment up to the last paragraph and was going to comment about “VP at Gartner ” and how these consulting companies (and Accenture, Deloitte, etc) run on bullshit but your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. I wonder what can be done to nuke these BS companies out of existence. Anyone has ideas?
You can do training sessions for people you want to advance or hold back. In both cases sessions would be meaningless and void of any real value, except that they assign attribute Foo to the group of people. Then you can say that only people with Foo can do Bar, moving those people forward in their career. Alternatively you can overcome some bureaucratic obstacle by claiming that you do Foo regularly, which is a requirement from some authority for some reason.
I don't really know how this kind of politics works, but this is how I tend to think about it.
Here's a instagram post from the founder: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/1ba57134a58455de0595824... Also look at his papers. He likes to draw a lot instead of doing math.
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The video effects are beautiful. This could easily be the intro of a successful Netflix series. I watched it completely (4:40 min) because the graphics and all the mumbo-jumbo mesmerized me.
I'm not sure what you guys/gals are seeing. It's pretty much exaclty "I know a guy who knows After Effects"-level. Most of the graphics style is pretty inconsistent as the basis (probably stock footage) and only made consistent via heavy filters (desaturating everything and applying a lot of bloom). You could probably cobble this video together for a few hundred bucks on Fiverr.
Perhaps that's what I'm seeing, yes
This reminds me of a person who somehow managed an invitation to give a presentation at UC Berkeley on database compression in 1993, with similar levels of snake-oil. I remember one of the funnier moments, a theme of the presentation was how there were more and more large data sets out there, including the Library of Congress. In a burst of enthusiasm, the presenter gushed about how they even had a Stradivarius violi…
I'm not sure the division is that strong. Years ago, I repeatedly saw a talk from a wellish known academic about "compressed" SMS messages that were simply a prearranged code. This was shortly before text messages became very cheap, wireless networking became much more common, and phone processors were in the process of becoming much more powerful. Then there was the professor pushing their "Lego" model of network pr…
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> the Harmonic Flux Resonator That's hilarious, I'd swear I've heard that on Star Trek Next Generation an age ago!
Wasn't that the thing that powered the DeLorean in Back to the Future?
>Time circuits on, Flux Capacitor ... fluxing, Engine running All right.
Why did Black Hat delete it, rather than making snide comments about it? A video of people laughing at the speaker would have been great.
The speaker('s company) paid a hefty price for him to be there to present. Black Hat doesn't wanna dissuade any other potential vendors from not giving them their money.