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dstein64

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dstein64··on Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata
Adversarial images targeting an image classifier have been shown to be transferable to separately trained models (i.e., models with different weights or different architectures relative to the model for which the adversarial image was constructed to target).

I'm curious if the adversarial CA reprogramming techniques are similarly transferable. That is, do the adversarial CA and/or the adversarial perturbation matrix transfer to separate CAs (trained on the same task) with different weights or architectures than the original CA that was targeted?

Is this something you've explored or plan to?

dstein64··on “I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
I updated the the quote. Thanks!
dstein64··on “I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies
> "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law"

- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20th anniversary ed., 1999, p. 152.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

dstein64··on Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists https://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind.html
dstein64··on Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
I used a similar algorithm when developing a Chrome extension a few years ago: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-highlight/dnk...

Longer sentences had an inherent advantage, so I controlled for that by reducing sentence scores as a function of the sentence length.

dstein64··on Techurls.com – Read tech news from the most popular tech websites in one place
If this question is directed at the author of the site, there is a comment section on the corresponding blog post: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-techurls/

Three factors I view as appealing, versus navigating to each site separately, include 1) the aggregation itself has value (e.g., to save time), 2) the primarily textual interface and 3) the search functionality.

dstein64··on Techurls.com – Read tech news from the most popular tech websites in one place
For the title of this HN submission, the text is from the og:description tag in the page's html.

I'm not sure how the popular websites were selected.

Perhaps the author of the site can answer your question in the comments of the corresponding blog post. http://www.catonmat.net/blog/announcing-techurls/

dstein64··on Wine 2.0 released
> "It's saved me from having to install complex or insecure VMs..."

Can you elaborate on this? My intuition is that running an application in a VM provides more security than in wine.

dstein64··on Basics of Making a Rootkit – From syscall to hook
Per your comment, I wrote a Chrome extension that creates links to other HN submissions pointing to the same URL. Hovering over the links provides additional details.

This provides similar functionality as the 'past' link in a submission's subtitle, but shows the duplicates automatically.

Here's the extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-duplic...

Here's the source code:

https://github.com/dstein64/hn-duplicate-detector

dstein64··on Ask HN: Recommend an introductory course on compilers
Here's an HN comment from last week that included links to a compilers course (a course from HN user jpolitz, who posted the comment).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207695

Here are the links:

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~jpolitz/cs75/s16/index.html

https://github.com/compilers-course-materials/

https://github.com/compilers-course-materials/cs75-s16-lectu...

dstein64··on Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise
> "Sorry if you miss the nuance in my point."

I interpreted your original comment similarly to your description in your reply, so I don't believe I missed nuance (unless I missed it twice). My comment and question were intended to clarify the meaning and usage of the expression "ad hominem", independent of this thread's topic and nuance in your comment. Like I mentioned, I don't use that expression often.

dstein64··on Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise
> "It is not ad hominem to bring someone's motivation and prior record into consideration."

I don't speak latin and don't use that expression often. Are you saying it's not ad hominem because the motive is considered as opposed to attacked? I ask because I had thought that it is ad hominem "to bring someone's motivation and prior record into consideration".

Here's the definition on Wikipedia: "a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I didn't read the link of this post, or the link in your comment, so hopefully I didn't miss something. I was just curious since I thought "ad hominem" describes what you were saying is not ad hominem.

dstein64··on “C++ is a horrible language” – Linus Torvalds
> "This seems like an dangerous appeal to authority to me. Just because Linus said so doesn't make it true."

What is "this" that you're referring to? (e.g., posting the link to Hacker News, the post making the HN frontpage, a specific comment on this discussion, something in reply to Linus, etc.)

dstein64··on Ask HN: How do SpaceX/NASA/other maintain high code quality?
Here's the JPL Java Coding Standard. http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/jpl-java-standard.pdf

"The primary purpose of the standard is to help Java programmers reduce the probability of run-time errors in their programs."

dstein64··on Detecting PhantomJS Based Visitors
> "so?..."

The blog post on detecting PhantomJS is from Shape Security. The "fun fact" is that PhantomJS was developed by someone at the same company.

dstein64··on Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh
> "Any thoughts..."

Existing HN hiring threads start with:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome."

Searching for "intern" matches postings with "internet", "international", etc. I've seen comments suggesting that a search for "remote" matches "no remote".

Here's a quick fix that uses a prefix, for consideration:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords +INTERN, +REMOTE, or +VISA if..."

dstein64··on Tesla Buys a Company in a State Where It’s Barred from Selling Cars
The TechCrunch article mentions a recent law: "The state’s governor signed a law last October that banned the company from selling its vehicles directly to consumers."
dstein64··on Show HN: Highlight (for automatically highlighting website content)
Here's the source code: https://github.com/dstein64/highlight

And a corresponding blog post: http://www.dannyadam.com/blog/2015/04/article-highlighter/

dstein64··on NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
Here's the description.

> Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html

dstein64··on NOVA: The Great Math Mystery
Here are some more links.

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html
  http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365464997/
  http://video.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365464997/
dstein64··on Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple
> I thought that HN had a policy where the titles used are taken verbatim from the page being linked to, unless they're so completely terrible that an alternative title is needed.

It seems that's the intent expressed in the HN Guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important. ... Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

dstein64··on Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple
> I don't think the author(s) of this site are any of those things, but I also know that Yosemite as a whole is not designed to take away 100% of your privacy, which is what the title implies. This is also what turns me off about a lot of FSF propaganda, and most politicians regardless of their beliefs.

Are your referring to the title of the HN submission, "Mac OS X Yosemite – No Privacy, by Design"? That text does not appear on the website. The website refers to "parts of Mac OS X which are invasive to your privacy."

dstein64··on D’s Garbage Collector Problem
Here's separate "GC issue" that Walter Bright has mentioned: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22jwcu/how_i_ca...
dstein64··on SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion
The other thing that comes to mind, which is minor, is that TortoiseGit and TortoiseSVN both have a place in the GUI settings where an SSH client can be specified (e.g., the path to Putty's plink.exe). I noticed that TortoiseHg does not have a similar setting in its global settings GUI, and must be configured manually in the config file.
dstein64··on SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion
I had the same issue this blogger describes regarding "No URL Selected". The solution is given in the comments. I did not review the whole post, but I think the post addresses some other issues as well that you might be interested in reviewing.

http://coderscentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-have-fanati...

I also believe that installation on Linux could be more polished, but that is based on my experience from over six months ago, so I'm not sure if the process has been improved.

These are the first two things that come to mind since you asked. Overall, I find the program polished, and when I use it on Windows I find the shell integration convenient.

dstein64··on Honest People Might Be Dangerous
I do not believe your comment will be downvoted for the reason you suggest, but rather because your comment is an ad hominem attack.
dstein64··on Stanford University Free Class: Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
If you are looking for math video lectures, UCCS posts videos for a bunch of their courses. However, these do not have the features that are on the Stanford sites (e.g., interactive questions).

http://www.uccs.edu/~math/vidarchive.html

dstein64··on Upgrading Dropbox to 16GB for 25USD
That answers the uncertainty in the blogger's disclaimer: "* Disclaimer: I can’t be sure this isn’t against the MTurk posting terms. In fact, it might be."
dstein64··on Upgrading Dropbox to 16GB for 25USD
Another option is to use Amazon Mechanical Turk: http://codyaray.com/2010/10/dropbox-referrals-using-mechanic...

Also, here's the Dropbox page to get additional space by connecting your social networking accounts: https://www.dropbox.com/free

dstein64··on OpenClassroom: Free video courses from Stanford University
One reason for NC State's restricted sharing policy might be to encourage participation in class. Some students may be discouraged from participating in lectures if the content will be distributed.

This seems less likely in the NC State example though, given that the same policy seems to apply to all course material, in addition to video lecture recordings.

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