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khartigon ChatGPT shows promise of using AI to write malware

Good to know. Given a succinct textual description of what you want coded in a specified language, it does quite well. I have saved time having it generate somewhat complicated regular expressions that I'm not very good at.

khartigon China just announced a new social credit law. Here’s what it means

Once the data is acquired (health or social) by a centralized entity, there is always going to be the possibility of the data being used improperly.

khartigon Three stealth fighter jets just scrambled over Hawaii, and no one will say why

Likely it had something to do with Chinese air force aircraft entering Taiwanese air defense locations. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-reports-la...

khartigon What Tracy Chou learned about online harassment while building app to solve it

I perceive the effort to build this app as a positive and productive step in the correct direction to filter huge amounts of destructive and toxic rhetoric thrown at individuals. Ms Tracy Chou's personal experience with this, her talent, and intellect are a good fit to build tools like this.

One of the downsides of personal filtering is the potential to block out disagreeable relevant truths and facts. Making arguments one-sided and exacerbating the problem of divisive thought in the world.

However, this needed tool is a great and important contribution to the online world.

khartigon There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus Crisis

So far there has never been a successful vaccine created for a coronavirus. So it's likely there is not going to one in the near future. Not even within the next couple of years. Possibly if there is a significant worldwide collaboration we can create one soon.

khartigon Leveraging blockchain to make machine learning models more accessible

Seems to me you should get paid to contribute to improving models rather than having to pay for the privilege. Although validating data is necessary, paying to provide data for a model that may be deemed inaccurate doesn't incentivize usage.

khartigon Apple Just Gutted Its Laptop Lineup

Likely Apple is reducing the laptop lineup because they aren't selling enough. Although they have been great machines (I still use a Pro every day) they are not competitively priced. Especially for a student, a laptop at roughly half the price for enough comparative capabilities is a much better selection. For hardcore software development and graphics work, a Dell XPS is also roughly half the price. The display performance may not quite compare to the Pro but the price difference is huge.

Reducing the line up indicates to me that Apple recognizes they are not competitive in this market and they are pulling out. Apple's business focus has been and continues to go in other directions.

khartigon SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO

For anyone interested, there is an annotated copy of the SEC document nicely done by Katherine Wu athttps://www.katherinewu.me/writings/2019/6/4/annotated-guide...