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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
(3) there is also an assumption about how computers might solve the problem. It seems they assume binary computing type problem solving. What about some of the cryptographic solution methods that have undercut some of these exponentially increasing numbers of calculations? I am sure the maths geniuses will come up with ever more clever ways of…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
(2) there is an implicit assumption that “memory” requirements are physical and we would “run out of atoms for storage”. What about non-local information? Clearly this is not in the mechanist worldview underpinning this article/”proof”
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
even I, non-expert in this field, can suggest there may be a couple of problems in this “proof” such as:
(1) Why only the Monte Carlo statistical technique, why not other techniques? Are there other techniques? The article doesn’t say. Here is a book that talks about alternative ideas on solving the Schrodinger equation…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
While it would be nice if this were conclusive “proof” we’re not virtual reality game players, it doesn’t seem so conclusive to non-expert, layman me.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Oh dear, I do not see this as good news for peer to peer efforts. Once Goldman Sachs gets involved, it’s definitely a rigged game.
http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-is-flirting-with-bitcoin-trading-2017-10-
Indeed. That’s perhaps why Bitcoin Cash is the way to go……for now.
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
China is planning for more IT security resources. This article is glossing the intiatives with a cyber warfare motivation but I think this is more to do with an economy diversifying outwards from manufactured goods and now needing more robust IT to support this. Having worked in IT infrastructure and having several friends and former colleagues…[Read more]
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
More on the motivation for the drama – “we want you resources, stop giving them to China”: http://www.atimes.com/article/n-korea-estimated-us2-79-trillion-worth-mineral-resources/
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
If you want to “bring round” a country to your way of thinking, why would you cut internet links to sources of information that might provide this alternative view? Answer: you wouldn’t. So Russia opens a new one and China keeps their internet link open… but this article seems to suggest that the US would want to cut the internet to N. Korea,…[Read more]
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More on the motivation for the drama – “we want you resources, stop giving them to China”: http://www.atimes.com/article/n-korea-estimated-us2-79-trillion-worth-mineral-resources/
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
US Imperial law applies to citizens and residents of vassal states. Is this (another) test case since Kim Dotcom is somewhat of a pariah figure (at least to some)?
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/US-top-court-rejects-New-Zealand-based-internet-mogul-s-appeal -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Economic war threats. EU to US tech giants.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Economy/10-European-countries-call-for-tougher-tax-laws-for-US-tech-giants -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Audio recording of police radio. https://vocaroo.com/i/s1VT3hpg2cvI
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Although malaria is a problem, everything about the idea of genetically modified mosquitoes screams “no” to me…. Many things to go wrong and lots of ways to drive a hidden biowarfare agenda.
When I was in Mozambique 2 years ago, my experience of the malaria issue is that it was under control. Doctors and clinics are geared up for it and…[Read more] -
Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Not sure about the Russia hysteria angle but it looks like the space war is in play – first area of attack: GPS
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/black-sea-ship-hacking-russia -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
A couple weeks ago, I looked at some photographs of North Korea post the US bombing in the 1950s… the devastation was appalling. What’s interesting about these images is how the threat/devastation is reinterpreted in a “medieval” style, with for instance axes (up close and personal) doing the killing instead of bombs (far off and impersonal). I…[Read more]
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aspects of epistemological warfare
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
This is an interesting infographic, many different cognitive biases:
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I love being told how flawed I am in terms I’ve never heard before… lol
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
@esteyman1, the member content including all the video dialogue, vidchats etc. is under a different navigation tab. If you go to the tab “Members” you should see a menu item for “All Member Content” which has everything presented by date order.
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Ok see your messages thanks will try and join again in near future. I forget how much to become member per month? and does that allow me to hopefully get chance to sometime video chat with Joseph one day and pick his brain lol
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Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
Well, perhaps user hardware will become more “locked down” but the cloud on the backend with all its data as well as the network for delivery of the content to the user will still need hardware and lots of it
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delivery network will ‘eventually’ by quantique and the hardware infra will be unnessary 🙂 but thbats not for this decade
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
MIT Technilogy Review article on Artificial Intelligence. Unlike the usual emotional or hyped up articles, this one explores the thinking behind the current hype, something called Backprop.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one-trick-pony/ -
Cara posted a new activity comment 8 years, 6 months ago
The NYT seems to have an agenda on not covering Peurto Rico: https://twitter.com/timothysw/status/913576146243063808
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Cara posted an update 8 years, 6 months ago
Plant trees…. not for the improvement of the environment (why would we ever do that) but because they will be needed to make cars. A new kind of car-pentry ? 🙂
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41145744 - Load More
even I, non-expert in this field, can suggest there may be a couple of problems in this “proof” such as:
(1) Why only the Monte Carlo statistical technique, why not other techniques? Are there other techniques? The article doesn’t say. Here is a book that talks about alternative ideas on solving the Schrodinger equation…[Read more]
(2) there is an implicit assumption that “memory” requirements are physical and we would “run out of atoms for storage”. What about non-local information? Clearly this is not in the mechanist worldview underpinning this article/”proof”
(3) there is also an assumption about how computers might solve the problem. It seems they assume binary computing type problem solving. What about some of the cryptographic solution methods that have undercut some of these exponentially increasing numbers of calculations? I am sure the maths geniuses will come up with ever more clever ways of…[Read more]
(4) more simply, they built a model and the results are based on the model….. and as we have learnt from “climate models” these are only ever approximations