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medainson The Anti-Heisenberg Principle: A Diagnostics Manifesto

If you log all payloads now your logs are subject to DPA and possibly also PCI - potential security fail.

medainson Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain

Nothing in the article suggests that it's learning - so I suspect that the weights are indeed set in the factory.

Learning on the fly would consume much more power as it back-propagates, so doesn't really make much sense as the potential performance gain would be marginal and would probably cause a performance hit when switching to a different process or thread.

medainson A hunt for the government's oldest computer

It would be interesting to perform a similar exercise for UK government agencies.