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when I read the title I thought of qr codes but didn't see them scrolling through, curious now though

wonder if they've already gone through arbitration https://ripple.com/terms-of-use/

Also, have you read Norbert Weiner's Cybernetics? I think he had parts of information theory there before Shannon

I want to understand his work on random processes too, have just kind of scanned the book and have tried to upgrade my calculus

i may in fact be color blind

Could you explain KL divergence and/or cross entropy to me?

from wikipedia: "In mathematical statistics, the Kullback–Leibler divergence is a measure of how one probability distribution diverges from a second expected probability distribution"

Kullback-Leibler divergence is used a lot in the reinforcement learning setting

"In information theory, the cross entropy between two probability distributions p and q over the same underlying set of events measures the average number of bits needed to identify an event drawn from the set"

Cross Entropy is used as a cost function in neural networks rather than least squares http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap3.html#the_cros...

no mention of the alto either :0

From Masters of Doom, Carmack programmed Doom on a NeXT machine would like to get my hands on one

erm, I think boltzman figured out entropy for thermo like 100 years before shannon's theory of communication

could be totally wrong though

entropy, complexity, and evolution are words that come to mind

I would be interested if anyone knows about the connection between information theoretic entropy and physical entropy.

I think thermodynamics and statistical physics are really interesting. In Parallel Distributed Processing they discuss an extension of the entropy metaphor to learning and neural networks

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/parallel-distributed-processi...

>135 euros

nope, looks exactly like some other versions i've seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlqJaUi5jE

I guess people will buy it, but I'd rather it be cheaper Not that i'm opposed to modernization of classics, I love worrydream for example

http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt...

but that is free!

Why does it use green for both Probability and Algorithms? Why does it use red for both Linear Algebra and Others? Why is it 3d?

Thin font is hard to read

php for example(?)

type casting there always seems horrible

is it bad that I prefer C to all the shit in C++?

Now I don't even write C/C++ regularly, so my opinion is probably shit. But I really like the simplicity of C over all the features of C++.

"Factom technology secures data for private and public organizations by publishing encrypted data or a cryptographically unique fingerprint of the data to Factom’s immutable, distributed Blockchain" https://factom.com/

the immutability, is unique.

"Harmony is a new blockchain base document technology that works with your existing imaging or document management solution to create a secure, transparent, unalterable record for the final loan documents." https://www.factom.com/products/harmony

This still has a currency, Factoid or something. I don't know that anyone has created a consensus mechanism that doesn't use a coin

PHP: Laravel, Lumens Python: Django, Flask, Pyramids, Tornado Java: Spring Scala: Akka?

most experience with Python

Lets use rocket attacks instead of terrorism. You could consider the actions of the US and Israel to be terroris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_...

Tel Aviv seems great honestly. Really my only complaint against Israel is the expansion of settlements and the alliance with South Africa during apartheid.

This is similar to statsbot.co 's Slack bot

You would message the bot something like "sessions for this month", and it would send back a graph.

wonder if you could make a similar bot with google sheets if they provide an api

https://statsbot.co/slack https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/bots-you-can-count-o...

what do you think of the visual programming in unreal engine similar for unity? have never used it, but supposedly you can go back and forth between c++ and the drag-and-drop interface

i really like scratch, have started using this tool called pibakery that has a similar block-based interface: http://www.pibakery.org/

If nothing else, visual programming is of educational value

etc:

Seymour Papert's Logo maybe fits in somewhere here (source of turtle graphics)

sketchpad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=495nCzxM9PI

c+p of 252-253:

"The world of physics is then," as Planck says, "a deliberate hypothesis put forth by a finite mind in an attempt to reduce the facts of observation to a system based on certain physical principles such that known phenomena are necessary consequences of the system."

The basic principles are chosen on experimental grounds. Whether they are true or false in the absolute sense is not a pertinent question. Their consequences must agree with nature. They are working hypotheses which are to be discarded whenever they cease to be effective or helpful.

Progress means bringing new sets of observations with the system in a way to give a complete mathematical description of physical phenomena in terms of the fewest principles or entities, that is to find in a variety of physical phenomena essential relations from which future phenomena can be predicted.

Physics is thus a result of our quest for order and harmony among physical phenomena. It is man's best attempt to think vigorously whatever permits of vigorous thinking. It is not fixed but is subject to change and evolution. Whatever comes out must go back to enrich the soil from which it came

I think it's worth the full read, 20 pages of pretty good physics history

also:

Alan Kay: "OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

and +1 to anything by bret victor

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw

(All the recordings from "Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" are amazing)

can't pm, but interested

this is really interesting, company I work for has recently started working on "location analytics" using signal strength (rssi) of the signal sent when your phone scans for wifi

They're using pre trained models though, like

https://github.com/heuritech/convnets-keras

I don't think they expect people to train them in the browser, just run the pretrained ones for image recognition or something

"developers of the Tor browser" probably not, lots of incompetent people in infosec. Tor itself has decent devs, but even they have seen leadership troubles recently, pressure from feds etc. Check the mailing-list.

Reminder, this isn't a vulnerability in Tor, but an IP leak in Firefox, or at least the way it's configured in TBB.

Maybe a sandbox is irrelevant to an IP leak though, idk.

Why is Tor Browser still using FF instead of Chrome or something?

A sandbox is necessary, and I'm 100% sure there are a ton of 0-days in all browsers.

People should really stop using pastebin to post leaks, I'm pretty sure there's still a timing-based SQL injection to get at least the user's IP

There are a ton of groups that use IRC though... It's mainly IRC, Jabber/XMPP, and Skype. There are plenty of groups to be found.

Corporations are often made up of more than a hundred thousand people, divided between thousands of things. I highly doubt anyone that has anything to do with SCEI had anything to do with anyone in Sony Corporation.

I don't understand how people have opinions on a fucking corporation. I don't think Jack Tretton is yelling at the legal department of another company. Besides, the consoles basically act as brand identity tools for Microsoft and Sony. Microsoft's gaming divisions only posted a small profit for 5 years and Sony only posted a profit during the height of the PS2.

Why is it wrong to be greedy or to "want more"?