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tribler··on AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
If you carefully study the actual prompt used: it already mentions the tail as a factor. Answer talks more on the tail. Just confidently!

No double blind methodology protocol.

tribler··on IP addresses through 2024
IPv8 dev here. Thnx for mentioning this.

IETF draft standard of IPv8: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pouwelse-trustch...

Bonus: "De-DSI" == LLM- based fuzzy search + IPv8

tribler··on Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
Direct Bitcoin donations by fans. 100% to artist. Think Taylor Swift of tomorrow.
tribler··on Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media
Deadly mistakes from 2014. Full redesign and new Rust code.
tribler··on Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter
If you like iron making. The old way is on display here, an original blast furnace from 1693 in Belgium. Very rare.

http://www.mmil.be/

tribler··on Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
Thnx! Sadly it's not that simple.

What IPFS, Dat protocol, Tribler, and all others are missing is "adverserial decentralised information retrieval".

For any keyword you type in, the match you want should show first. Trolling, Kremlin bots and copyright police forces should not be able to bring it down. Unsolved problem. How to create a privacy respecting relevance ranking or distributed clicklog.

tribler··on Library Genesis Desktop app, now with IPFS support
Yes, this is exactly what we are working on for 16 years now. Longest running torrent, trust and Tor-fork project: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

Its as hard as making a decentralised Google and decentralised YouTube at the same time. Over 75 master students and PhDs put their coding efforts in it at Delft University.

tribler··on Decentralizing the Internet's Root
> Imagine if all Twitter users had 'verified' status and you could also find them across their other social apps without any risk of following fake or wrong accounts by mistake.

Without any risks? Ideas from self-sovereign identity are somewhat included in this promo. Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? Risk-free IDs are unsolved I believe.

tribler··on Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship
apologies for the poor formulation. Another login system you are required to support. People can create personas and if you try to de-anonymize them across service you're in gross violation of EU law. So more like privacy friendly must-have, right?
tribler··on On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
It's a 212 page scientific report, not a traditional article.

Could the vision system not be the AI foundational model? Car vision, specifically Tesla state-of-the-art is not mentioned. I see bit of NLP bias.

tribler··on Warning Signals for Collapse of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Here is a 2003 paper I found that discusses implications of ocean current collapse: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2003.123... "Abrupt climate change: can society cope?" Mike Hulme Published:22 July 2003

Full Text PDF https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike-Hulme/publication/...

tribler··on Torpar: TUI Client for Torrent Paradise (Distributed Torrent Search)
Interesting! But the DHT of Bittorrent is filled with spam and fakes. How do you create trustworthy results?

(disclaimer: academic working on this problem for 15+ years, Tribler lab)

tribler··on Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips
Is this truly a "Nature-worthy" breakthrough?

Last I heard, EDA tooling failed to innovate. No serious money for open source, little competition and market failure for closed tools.

tribler··on Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 released with Taproot activation code
Taproot with MAST enables a DAO on Bitcoin.

See the full implementation here by Delft University of Technology scientists and students. [1] Security needs work, functionality works. (disclaimer, I'm the responsibile professor)

[1] https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp#luxury-commun...

tribler··on Achieving Sybil-Proofness for Big Tech alternatives
Any alternative to Big Tech will have to deal with trolls and fake account.

This work presents the starting point for mathematics of trust. Disclaimer, involved in this work.

tribler··on The Ergodicity Problem in Economics
"We therefore have reason to be optimistic about the future of economic theory."
tribler··on ‘Academic’ Torrent Client Offers a Safe Haven for Pirate Sites
The research portfolio of this client: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki#current-items-under-...
tribler··on IPFS 0.5
It seems global copyright enforcement with blacklisting and blocklists: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/284 (I've testified in US federal court in copyright cases as the expert witness professor. I always try to investigate the DMCA decisions of developers. Difficult tradeoffs.)
tribler··on IPFS 0.5
plus IPFS wants to enforce copyrights worldwide: [1,2] Businesses principles plus monthly bandwidth usage matter for real people.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduc...

[2] https://discuss.ipfs.io/tos#8

tribler··on IETF Response to “LS on New IP, Shaping Future Network”
Certain companies pay 2-3 extra months of salary for each draft or patent.
tribler··on How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)
scientific study: "The importance of touch in development", Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865952/#__ffn_... (as commented elsewhere)
tribler··on Ants give away the secrets of human brain processes
Real article: https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/128732783/Caste_spec...
tribler··on Soros, Charles Koch fund non-interventionist think tank
> Its founding donors — Soros’s Open Society Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation — have each contributed half a million dollars to fund its takeoff.

And if it works, its also pretty cost effective.

tribler··on Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
It looks great. 80k investment to go from 9 months of heating to 6 months. Expensive project, wonder if solar would have yielded more in the north.
tribler··on Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Wow, you have some really tough business decisions with this architecture:

- Is the mentioned blacklist implemented?

- Will it be enabled by default?

- Will the legal entity responsible for the blacklist be US-based?

tribler··on Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
Yes, that seems a possible attack. You can store stuff and pass the regular audits using "Proof-Of-Storage", yet refuse to upload bits when finally asked.

Hard to protect systems from irrational attacks like that (we know from building a similar system). They are quite transparant about their "unsolved-problems": https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/63

tribler··on Opening the Filecoin Project Repos
The interesting bit: "Legal Compliance for Filecoin Storage Miners" https://github.com/filecoin-project/specs/issues/65

"In order to comply the with law, a miner who agreed to store the bad data must not serve it, and delete the data from its hard drive as soon as possible."

tribler··on Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
Does this meet your requirements almost? https://pypi.org/project/pyipv8/
tribler··on Tribler Invented 'Paid' Torrent Seeding Over a Decade Ago
Yes, you can donate your bandwidth to others. This gives you bandwidth tokens. Tech details: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3337
tribler··on Libp2p – A modular network stack
That is very interesting spec, but also alarming. It contains:

> The meshsub router offers a baseline construction with good amplification control properties, which we augment with gossip about message flow.

This is notoriously hard to get right. How to prevent spam, posioning or Sybils in your gossip network? Scientific work on p2p overlays and gossip is hard to publish now at venues like Usenix or NSDI. After Newscast from 2003 it seems you need strong identity to make these systems attack resilient. An unsolved problem.

Thank you for this insight! We will put a university student team on exploring this likely vulnerability in IPFS/libp2p.

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