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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @05:40AM (#49623755)
Always worth watching again: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0057012/
Yes, in that case it's often called Photo-TAN or QR-TAN. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_num...

Previously there were also so called "flicker TAN" approaches: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaktionsnummer#chipTAN_com...

So basically the map projection problem [1] in higher dimensions?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection

And in Reinforcement Learning:

POET (Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer): https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/poet-open-ended-deep-learnin...

SCoE (Scenario co-evolution): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321707.3321831

Re:Careless People on Thursday April 24, 2025 @08:36AM (#43781966)
Evil and careless can be one and the same. They (FB) could not care-less about the consequences of their actions on other peoples' lives.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Elie Wiesel

In 2015, when I was asked by friends if I'm worried about Self driving Cars and AI, I answered: "I'll start worrying about AI when my Tesla starts listening to the radio because it's bored." ... that didn't take too long
Re:Give AI curiosity, and it will watch TV forever (2018) on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:23PM (#39210265)
I like the Bayesian Surprise definition for this. It's not about predicting the exact next state of the world (or the next frame of the noisy TV) but about how much the next state changes your model of the world.

https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2005/hash/0172d289d...

Re:I forked SteamOS for my living room PC on Sunday December 31, 2023 @02:42PM (#38826886)
I spent some (too much) time trying to get pretty much the same thing running using GOW [1]. Was quite a bit harder than I thought, requiring a hdmi dummy plug to get the xserver config right etc.

1: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow

See e.g. Ian Osband's work (he calls it 'risk' VS 'uncertainty' for some good examples that help in differentiating this: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
"Probabilistic Machine Learning" by Kevin Murphy is all you need. ... only half joking ;) https://probml.github.io/pml-book/
Re:Interpretable Machine Learning on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:46AM (#20409817)
I think the paper "Explaining Explanations in AI" by Brent Mittelstadt (https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01439v1) gives a really good overview of the different goals and approaches.
"When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
So if I understood correctly, there are 5 requirements for such a system to be secure:

  1: secure/unmodifiable cryptographic processor
  2: with unremovable rate limiting
  3: and exclusive access to a hardware key
  
  4: cryptographic processor has the only function of encrypting user data based on
  5: hardware key and a user supplied pin/key
Errors done by Qualcomm:

  Violated 3: Hardware key not exclusivly readable by cryptographic processor
  Violated 5: Encryption based on derived key
Anything I overlooked?

(edited: formatting)

Re:Bluetooth 5 will quadruple the range, double the speed on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:04AM (#11992207)
So true. At first I couldn't believe it, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to completely remove a paired bluetooth device from windows. After having connected my wireless keyboard to my mac for a day, I tried to reconnect it to windows. It fails silently and doesn't show up any more in available bluetooth devices. The connection to my mac obviously changed the pairing code, while windows still tries the old one. I googled for hours, tried everything from uninstalling bluetooth drivers to removing entries from the registry. Windows always silently re-adds the keyboard to the installed devices and fails at pairing. So I've got 2 choices left: Buy a new keyboard or reinstall Windows. Yay!
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