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Toast_on Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

>ya know, profit. Pretty sure Israel does it for the love of the game.

Toast_on SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)

It's been a political talking point for years...

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/05/us/border-migrants-cell-p...

Toast_on SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (2017)

Why does it need to say in the article when it's plainly known?

Toast_on Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

Ah, apologies, I thought you were interested in horizontal transfer. Honestly, now I'm not sure what your question is: the herpes virus' dormancy, or it's DNA insertion. The DNA insertion is already well documented, as is the dormancy, although I have no idea as to the mechanisms for said dormancy. Well, thanks for the rabbit hole!

Toast_on Selfish, Virus-Like DNA Can Carry Genes Between Species

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-01026-3

Toast_on California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education

Sure thing chief.

Toast_on California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education

>I looked at how well self-reported ancestry corresponds to hapmap populations.

>The mapping is very noisy.

>"race" as such isn't important

Sounds like quite the leap to reach the conclusion that you're trying to make.

Toast_on California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got data to study education

>Race is not a useful scientific guideline for any kind of scientific study.

Tell that to prostate cancer researchers.

To say race "isn't important" is completely ignorant.

Toast_on Ask HN: Problems for the next decade?

Reducing propaganda and breaking-up banking.

Toast_on Brunswick Stew, a Southern Classic

Collect yourself, dude.

Toast_on How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen

Funny enough, I recently came across an old old recipe for ergot wine.

Link:https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugNerds/comments/718biw/real_worl...

*this is not an endorsement.

Toast_on Ask HN: Startup ideas for introverts

Building aggregators/affiliate marketing can be ran as a one man show, and can easily be automated, with minimal investment.

Toast_on Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

Not OP, but I'm doing something similar with huginn [0]; I use it to scrape deals and sent POST requests to an Azure ml web service, which is output as RSS.

[0]: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Toast_on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks

Cool, thanks for the info.

Toast_on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks

It's been a while since I played around with tensorflow, how difficult is it to deploy a model as a web service? I'm currently using azure and looking for other options (besides prediction.io).

Toast_on Insane state of today's advertising part 3

Looks like cookie stuffing.

Toast_on Ask HN: What free resources did you use to learn how to program ML/AI?

The free Azure ML tutorials are pretty cool.

https://gallery.cortanaintelligence.com/

Toast_on Show HN: Flashfed.com – a flash sale aggregator powered by machine learning

Hi, I was hoping to get some feedback for my MVP.

I'm currently using a least-squares linear regression model trained with n-gram (unigrams) feature hashing, based on various social media metrics, with a heavy weight on sharing. It spits out a number between 1-50, with 25 being the most common.

Pretty much everything is automated with Huginn[0]: web scraping, data formatting, interaction with Azure ML[1], all of which is fed into a wordpress install using the pluginhunt[2] theme.

Let me know what you think!

[0]: https://github.com/huginn/huginn [1]: https://studio.azureml.net/ [2]: https://epicthemes.com/product/plugin-hunt-theme/

Toast_on Ask HN: Best OS for a slow netbook?

>I wish there was a Linux like Windows XP, not in looks but in speed

I've never tried it out, but have you looked into reactOS?

https://reactos.org

Toast_on Hyper Networks: An RNN that changes the weights of an RNN

Sounds like a strange loop.

Toast_on Ask HN: What's the best business for a tinkerer?

Seconded. Maybe look to AvE as an example of this.

Toast_on Ask HN: Do you keep track of what you learn? how?

Has AnkiApp made any improvements to Anki, or it it pretty much just a flashier UI?

Toast_on Show HN: Elixir Tab – Little bit of Elixir in every new tab

Cool man, I'll be trying this out.

Toast_on Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

I'm currently using it as an aggregator (displaying scraped and scored data).

Toast_on Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

I'm confused, do you actually think the ketogenic diet is based on a neanderthal diet?

Toast_on Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

Looks good. I think you should also consider adding the "keto" diet on there as well. Maybe meals < 10 net grams of carbs?

Toast_on Ask HN: What are the worst cases of online advertising you have seen?

Though not relevant regarding resource consumption, this[0] German KFC ad is humorously awful. Another example would be the 'download button' roulette one comes across on various file sharing sites.

[0]:https://zippy.gfycat.com/WigglySaneBee.webm

Toast_on Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

I'm ranking the sales based on their title. Azure makes it dead simple to use your trained model as a web service. I'm not familiar with aws, I just sort of fell into incorporating ml to my project, and since I'm in bizspark, everything that I'm doing is free. Another solution I'm considering is using prediction.io for the webservice.

http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/index.html

Toast_on Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

I'm aggregating flash sales and sending post requests to azure ml using huginn. It's a work in progress, but huginn seems to be working well. Also considering giving nifi a go, but the setup seems a bit over my head.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn

http://nifi.apache.org

Toast_on Lunar bases may need to be quake-proof (2006)

I've got just the thing: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cheese+ly%5E3