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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by jacquesm on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#19165687)
What is it with the word 'blockchain' that will make people toss it into otherwise completely unrelated text?
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by Varcht on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:45PM (#19166355)
You know, we love our overloaded terms? In this context it means "Decentralized storage". Keeps people on their toes, keeps the AI guessing.
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by oehpr on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:07PM (#19166031)
nothing, they're describing a series of content addressable blocks that link back to their ancestors. Which is a good application of a block chain. Think IPFS.

It's not cryptocurrency. Though cryptocurrency definitely popularized the technique.

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by fwip on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:14PM (#19166589)
IPFS isn't a blockchain just like git isn't a blockchain. "Blockchain" has semantic meaning that "a chain of blocks" does not.
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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Feature Extraction by SiempreViernes on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:10PM (#19166066)
That recent period in time when it was a license to print money?
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