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I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.
Submissions do not imply endorsement.
My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.
I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:
HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk
Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.
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* The Quantum Thief
* The Fractal Prince
* The Causal Angel
Actually, most of the story is on his WikiPedia page:
The Wikipedia article also says:
"The novella inspired a research paper investigating whether people would choose to take a magic learning pill to gain knowledge without 'manual' learning, finding that 57 of 58 participants would replace at least some of their learning experiences with a magic pill."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643556
Quoting:
> "I've reset this more than once and the last time I made a careful note of when I did it and to my surprise I found it re-enabled when I checked just now."
I know there are other attacks on RSA, I was interested to know if the poster to whom I was replying knew of any others (other than factoring, which is kinda obvious). After all, I said:
> I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, ...
I know that factoring (which attacks RSA) is sub-exponential, and I know that implementations of RSA (bad choices of primes, timing attacks, etc) can have weaknesses ... I'm just interested as to whether you have something else in mind.
Thx.
Every now and again someone notices.
I invite you to have a look at my profile ... I cheated once.
(Sorry, just noticed the older sibling comment said the same thing)
https://people.com/dolly-parton-dead-7565853
I submitted that, but it was DOA. I suspect the domain is on the HN block-list.
"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years."
Submitted many hours earlier, fewer upvotes, one comment, sank without trace.
The slop-machines write the way they do because they have been fed material, and they then spew that back out. So any writer whose style looks a little different, eccentric, or unique may find that the slop-machine's stochastic processes lead them into a state where the pool of possible continuations is small enough that the mimicry is strong.
My wife's writings have recently been labelled as "probably AI" ... and we are livid.
But there's nothing we can do except write in a style that is not truly our own, just to avoid the inaccurate "slop identification" algorithms from smearing us.
Vile machines.
/rant
The user can download their posts.
When a host goes away, where do you propose the posts previously hosted there now get hosted?
One option is for the poster's new host to have all the old posts uploaded ... how then to previous other posts that point at them, or reply to them, get updated?
I'd genuinely be interested to hear your suggestions for how these technical issues could be resolved.
Do you mean Michael Crichton, the author of the original book?
So starting from scratch is ... tricky.
“Mathematician Laurence Sigler had made it his mission to translate [Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci], rushing to complete the task right before he died of lymphocytic leukemia in 1997. But his editor moved on, and the manuscript languished on floppy disks for years. For a while Sigler’s widow Judith Sigler Fell, fearing the project would be killed, took the extraordinary step of impersonating her husband in communiqués.
By the time Fell found a new publisher, Springer Verlag (now part of the same publisher as Nature), floppy disks had been superseded and she had to hire a hacker to extract the files. Fell then discovered that Springer only accepted submissions in TEX format, the technical standard for physics and mathematics texts. She learned it and spent six months retyping the text. Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci was finally published in 2002 — the 800th anniversary of the book’s first appearance.”
Am I missing something? Can you explain or expand on that comment?
Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”
So the only person with whom Springer can discuss why the papers have been withdrawn is ... Plank.
Well ... good luck with that.
[0] By some metric, of course.
And I don't know what my instance is running on ... I have a tech co-mod who deals with it. We have two rather grunty servers running the the cloud, that's all I know.
If you're genuinely interested, email me and I'll find out for you. Details in my profile.
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From their "about" page:
Hello World! Welcome to mastodon@bauhaus, our small niche in the fediverse.
This server originated @maschinenraum, a small hackspace in Weimar. It is currently administrated and moderated by a small team via @admin.
We run our own server in a local data centre just down the road, so there's no cloud here – however, that also means if it breaks, it breaks. And it will happen every now and then, and there are backups, and it's mostly fine, but don't expect 100% uptime – 99% will have to do.
We're part of the Chaos family surrounding the Chaos Computer Club, so you can meet us at events like the C3 and get to know your admins!