thatcherclay

A space war from a long time ago and a galaxy far away? Where have I heard that before... maybe this is just a Disney marketing ploy...

Honest question - would you rather see our species capable of transforming Mars and building a colony there, or be able to create a realistic simulation environment, one that was capable of arbitrarily slowing down time.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/327/

My issue is that while medical technology may progress at an exponential rate, so too might the challenges of repairing our biology. So yea, we may be getting way smarter, but the problems may keep getting way harder, and then it is not as self evident as this particular article makes out that we are all going to be immortals.

Something I do not understand in this debate is the notion that creating the OS will somehow create an extra security vector - if they have the ability to create it (ie, since they have the private signing key) then isn't that already the same thing? It is not like Apple has a monopoly on good developers, presumably if someone is able to obtain their signing key it would lead to the same thing as obtaining the OS they are worried about getting out.

Sounds interesting - however, if they are successful in reconciliation, then seems logical that the next step will be addressing the transfer of wealth that happens after reconciliation (ie, clearing). I am not sure how much of a problem this truly is - ie, how much of counter party risk is attributed to how often the counter party agrees on the reconciliation but just does not have the capital to pay up at t+3.

Whatever it is, if you could instantaneously reconcile and clear, then some forms of trading could get a lot faster.

Can you post a reference for TPG (which I assume you actually mean Texas Pacific Group) being an "official" CIA proxy, as you say? That is a pretty bold assertion...

It should not be illegal to alter the car's computer, but to drive that car on a road where you are endangering other people, we have certifications and laws for that. IMHO, that is reasonable. I don't want your buggy software to deactivate your power steering and have you slam into me.

FWIW, I find the comparison to getting struck by lighting to be somewhat facetious. Sure, goes to show just how unlikely it is to be killed in a terrorist attack, but I wager that the purpose of a terrorist attack is often more than just the immediate deaths.

Evidon is an interesting company, they sort of screw with both of their customers: * Users - the main thrust of this article, potentially misleading tracking * Advertisers - holding them hostage via being one of the sole providers of certification to the legislation they support (I have witnessed instances where a company turned down their services, were reportedly threatened by an evidon sales rep, and then were shortly thereafter reported as not serving the ad choices banner. Not a smoking gun, but suspicious).

Just as an experiment to see how addicted I was, I stopped drinking coffee for the past week - was a huge awakening on how dependent I was (both physically and socially). Some reflections:

- I probably could not do this if I had to go into an office

- Headaches went away after day 4

- After day 4 I felt generally sharper/more motivated

- I feel much better after workouts

I highly recommend the exercise to others, good way to explore your limitations.

I think you guys are reading different parts of the article.

They present both results, supervised and unsupervised (where unsupervised uses the SFC dataset to train). They achieved 95.92% accuracy LFW with unsupervised (section 5.3) - so they can train on SFC and then classify a single image in a different domain with 95.92% accuracy.

They achieved the 97.25% accuracy level was achieved as you say, when they let the pairs into the training set. But they overfit with LFW alone, and has to add an additional 100k identities with more samples (30) per identity. A very impressive measure, but not quite as good as being able to generalize with 97% accuracy from a single training photo.

Yea, I agree with you. I am trying to make a different point though - there is reserve demand in both dollars and bitcoin, but if the bulk of the pricing set for bitcoin is by transactions founded in speculation (ie, not tied to a physical good or service), then it would seem there is a very limited ability to increase value in the system (aside from new users coming into the market). A currency like USD is different - you can easily and reliably exchange USD for goods and services which increase in value independent of the currency instrument itself. That, and the fact that you can amplify demand by introducing credit, creates a different dynamic, which is why I think the ratio of liquidity created by "speculative" investments versus transactions tied to something external is an interesting indicator.