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Re:P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017) on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:09PM (#22563789)
These briefs don't mention it by name, but this technology seems like "DNA Vaccination" that has been in research for some years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_vaccination

Re:WebGPU Shading Language on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:03PM (#22540278)
A webkit blogpost from 2018 claims SPIR-V may not be possible to fully secure in a web context. I'm uncertain of the progress or if the original claim was legitimate, but I believe the current experimental implementations of WebGPU do not protect against raw gpu memory access.

https://webkit.org/blog/8482/web-high-level-shading-language...

Re:The patent on SIFT expired yesterday on Monday March 09, 2020 @06:54AM (#22524378)
Imho a CNN is like a generalization of what SIFT does, so a CNN can be trained to be equivalent to SIFT, but it can also be trained with more specific features for your use case.
Sure, all of those things created large economic gains for their respective economies. It's a question of how much of that economic gain can we capture with taxation.
Soil / fertilizer is possibly a limiting factor.
This is tangential, but I wonder if the problem with "bot commenting" isn't inherent to forum-style discussion. When our only channel for analysis/criticism is ephemeral comment sections, we lose the ability to compare related discussions of a topic over time, or to rectify disagreements that occur across several threads, or even across different sub-trees of discussion.

Compared to a wiki-style website, where all angles of the argument can be collected into one place to make a cohesive comparative overview; as forum-users, we are left stranded in noisy content, and we rely on making heuristic judgements based on popularity of certain opinions and stubbornness of certain commenters. Bots make easy work of exploiting these flawed heuristics.

Re:State of JavaScript 2019 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:15AM (#21833867)
> you wanna learn react and you never used an arrow function, wtf

At least in the early days, using React was the first time most people would be exposed to webpack/babel, so it was also their first exposure to the newer JS features.

Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:36AM (#21801020)
Sheep are rational agents when they are surrounded by wolves.
The term "cartel" is interesting here, if the power structure is indeed the voting population of San Francisco being predominantly homeowners, then as those homeowners are the suppliers of the housing market, it is a cartel in form.
Re:Urbit on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:42AM (#21675207)
Perhaps the idea is that updates provided by OpenBSD or another OS for example could be compromised or simply directed to an unpopular path, but in this way a "senate" of code reviewers with known biases provides a more democratic way of reviewing updates before publish.