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https://cymetica.com/founder.txt https://vectorspacebio.science
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KasianFranks··on Augur protocol leads to Ethereum-based ‘assassination market’
More proof that crypto is bad
KasianFranks··on Coinbase reportedly gets approval from US regulators for tokenized securities
They have competition "$6.3T BlackRock Targets Cryptocurrency & They’re Not the Only Ones" https://hackernoon.com/6-3t-blackrock-targets-cryptocurrency...
KasianFranks··on Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers
This has been the elephant in the room for Social since the beginning.
KasianFranks··on Jim Tcl version 0.78
I remember packaging and developing for the Tcl interpreter within Tivo boxes and set top boxes a while ago. The footprint was small back then, 10k is amazing. Great work.
KasianFranks··on Facebook is buying UK’s Bloombury AI to ramp up natural language tech
They could have just asked Google.
KasianFranks··on Snapchat's decline and the secret joy of internet ghost towns
Another example of the transient nature of social technology companies (aol, friendster, myspace, facebook, twitter [fill in the blank]) compared to algorithmically founded technology companies (Google).
KasianFranks··on Tezos Betanet Launch
Like the stock market there will be plenty 'outside analysts' providing buy/sell/hold ratings on crypto and similar to the stock market, it's likely none of these analysts will be unbiased. Just ask Henry Blodget.
KasianFranks··on Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero
A long tail of under performers exists for websites, apps, stocks (especially OTCBBs) etc. Crypto is no different. Just as with websites and apps, crypto will have it's own long tail of under performers. It makes perfect sense.
KasianFranks··on NLP-generated summaries could replace traditional headlines
Context-controlled sentiment analysis applied to news and information summaries for the purpose of distinguishing leading price indicators versus trailing price indicators.
KasianFranks··on NLP-generated summaries could replace traditional headlines
Context-controlled summarization would also help https://vectorspace.ai/datasets/example_context-control.html
KasianFranks··on Hallmark of an Economic Ponzi Scheme
Flight to quality will go into crypto and for many of the reasons mentioned in the write-up.
KasianFranks··on Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?
No need, they're going the way of AOL, friendster and myspace.
KasianFranks··on Bypassing website anti-scraping protections
Google crawls the web, they don't scrape it. There's a big difference.
KasianFranks··on How Michael Jackson's tilt defied gravity
Not for us who can break. How many 360's did any of you get on a headspin or helicopter?
KasianFranks··on Launch HN: Dharma (YC S17) an open protocol for borrowing/lending cryptoassets
Nice, a trading vehicle https://hackernoon.com/its-not-about-the-ico-it-s-about-the-...
KasianFranks··on Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
0 or 1 for discrete values when it comes to pattern recognition in vector similarity comparisons. Ask the guys that developed AutoClass at JPL to identify clusters of stars.
KasianFranks··on Is Information in the Brain Represented in Continuous or Discrete Form?
It’s always continuous. We get better similarity measurements with floating points.
KasianFranks··on Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging
Bingo, in part. We're also trying to determine who does not value existence.
KasianFranks··on Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging
Community sometimes has very little to do with what's true.
KasianFranks··on Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging
True. And you have children. Better to exist than not exist.
KasianFranks··on Ten Years of Vim
Vi
KasianFranks··on Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
This group does not know what they are talking about. Mark my words here. It's about advanced distance calculations and engineered feature attributes.
KasianFranks··on Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out
No it’s not. A complete definition of intellect (let alone consciousness) has never been done. When it is then progress will be made.
KasianFranks··on Fears of Larger Contagion as Ebola Spreads to Major Congo City
When you do the research you'll find that it spreads to fast. Look out for those that control the speed of the virus. Source: my research in extending human lifespan.
KasianFranks··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
Wrong. Ask the NGA.
KasianFranks··on Japan's most valuable startup aims to teach factory robots to think
Not possible yet until we have an understanding of what human intelligence is. Consciousness, auto-association and things like that come next.
KasianFranks··on YouTube Music, a new music streaming service, is coming soon
It won't be any good without 2 things:

1. A good music recommendation system

2. Crypto

KasianFranks··on Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (2015)
There's nothing to see here.
KasianFranks··on Extending Tcl
ANNOUNCE: Digital Trader - java/tcl/tk web agent (1997) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.tcl/5-KIZWGY...
KasianFranks··on Why does deep and cheap learning work so well?
It does not. It's about unsupervised learning and unlabeled data. It's the next frontier. Automated feature engineering for triangulated datasets is the real target.
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