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idiliv··on Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
A little late of a reply, but afaik, TraceTogether tracks phone numbers, so it doesn't provide as much anonymity.
idiliv··on Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters&fax (German)
It's surprising that it took until 2017 for "Fachleute" (experts) to warn the city about the situation. Wouldn't one expect the same advice to be given ever since 2001 when Windows 95 support ended?
idiliv··on Two Billion Records Exposed in 'Smart Home' Breach
How significant is the "two billion records" figure? According to the article, the affected smart-home provider mereley "claims to have more than a million users around the world". So presumably this database contains a lot of redundant information?
idiliv··on Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online
From my experience (and this seems to be a general trend with Julia projects) CUDA support in Julia - is not completely stable - is very fast moving - has a low learning curve - is highly amenable to your own tweaks and hacks
idiliv··on Ask HN: What’s a good Christmas present for a 13yr old who wants to learn code?
I remember that I got into coding around the age of 13. For me, the trigger was a book on C++, written for adolescents. Thinking about it in retrospective, C++ probably wasn't the best language to get started on, and yet, I devoured that book. So nowadays, beginners books on e.g. Python are probably even more appealing. I also feel that book makes a better present than an equivalent online resource, because it's something physical. Of course, such a book would still require that the 13yr old has access to a computer, in order to actually write code.
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