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Từ đại số đến bitcoin

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 0 implied HN points • 19 Dec 13
🕹 Technology Cryptocurrency Mathematics Privacy Financial system
  1. The concept of digital currency evolved from early versions like creating symbolic money during childhood games.
  2. Digital signatures like RSA and blind signatures by Chaum helped ensure anonymity and prevent double-spending in electronic transactions.
  3. DigiCash, founded by Chaum, aimed to make digital currency a payment tool but faced challenges due to dependence on banks and lack of competition with credit cards.
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Toward credible realism

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 22 Apr 24
🕹 Technology AI
  1. Realistic AI prospects differ from credible AI prospects, but both lead to major disruptions in labor markets and an expansion of productive capacity.
  2. Both credible and realistic AI-enabled scenarios suggest the need for military planners to reassess strategic prospects and explore new options.
  3. Stretching the Overton window through analysis can help align perceived options with reality and reduce future surprises and regrets.

How to harness powerful AI

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 14 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Artificial Intelligence Models Planning
  1. Harness powerful AI capabilities without relying on autonomous agents by considering how to apply these resources to accomplish large tasks.
  2. Organize tasks in AI-agency role architectures to efficiently utilize highly capable AI for transformative endeavors while maintaining control.
  3. Utilize AI systems for large, consequential tasks through planning, action, correction processes, incorporating bounded tasks, and adhering to the principle of least authority for safer outcomes.

The Platform: General Implementation Capacity

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 24 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Implementation Workflow Automation Design
  1. AI can accelerate the implementation capacity of design, development, production, deployment, and adaptation stages, improving efficiency and scale of sociotechnical systems.
  2. Dividing the implementation process into stages like design, development, production, deployment, and adaptation can help understand AI's role in each stage and potential for transformative impacts.
  3. Using AI for generative design, automation, interactive systems, and adaptation can enhance different stages of implementation workflow, leading to better outcomes and faster progress.

Perceived options are pivotal

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 14 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Implementation Risk management AI Systems
  1. Perceived possibilities shape perceived options, interests, and goals, and recognizing new possibilities can lead to better outcomes.
  2. AI has the potential to create and destroy options, impacting the interests of various entities, and understanding this could align goals.
  3. To benefit from AI while reducing risks, there needs to be a better understanding of safe, highly capable AI systems and their potential impact on society.

This is not the AI we were looking for

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Ethics Innovation Data science
  1. AI has diversified into myriad service providers instead of developing into super-agents, updating our thinking about AI as a valuable resource.
  2. Intelligence is a capacity, not a thing, and AI systems can be easily specialized, frozen, deployed, and composed for different tasks.
  3. Advanced AI systems like GPT-4 can be fine-tuned, leading to diverse AI systems with unique behaviors, challenging the idea of one dominant AI pushing everything else aside.

Why intelligence isn’t a thing

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Intelligence Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence AI Development
  1. Intelligence is a resource, not an entity, with two different meanings based on learning and doing.
  2. Intelligence isn't a distinct, autonomous being but rather a capacity within intelligent systems, a resource for solving problems.
  3. Superintelligent-level AI can be managed as a pool of resources, leading to a focus on how we should use AI rather than speculating on what 'it' will do to us.

September 2021: The Latest from Tech Buzz China

Tech Buzz China Insider • 0 implied HN points • 30 Sep 21
🕹 Technology China tech Tech news Venture Capital Government Policy Podcasts
  1. Tech Buzz China offers a community where insiders can engage in discussions and access exclusive content like livecasts with industry experts.
  2. The Chinese government plays a significant role in economic development by actively supporting businesses through financial assistance, investment facilitation, and other means.
  3. Alipay's recent split into separate apps was a response to government directives to address issues like unfair competition and financial product integration.

Enough AI (eventually)

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Artificial Intelligence
  1. AI capabilities may reach a point where they can replace entire industry systems swiftly, causing disruptive effects.
  2. Combining different AI capabilities can lead to new problems and solutions, promoting cascading effects for more advancements.
  3. Incremental upgrades in production technologies could eventually give way to wholesale replacements for greater efficiency.

AGI is probably here

davidj.substack • 0 implied HN points • 21 Jan 26
🕹 Technology Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Automation Startups Venture Capital Career development Software Tools
  1. Practical guidance on the must-have AI tools and skills to grow your career and business in 2026 will be a core focus.
  2. Expect a VC-focused perspective on whether AI is a bubble and which kinds of AI startups are likely to get funded next year.
  3. The message stresses that AI is accelerating fast and may make AGI imminent, and it looks at what's dying and what's next—AI agents, automations, prompting—using examples like AI-driven viral LinkedIn growth.

Prospectus

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 30 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Robotics Automation Software Tools Global impact
  1. Advanced AI will have a significant impact on various industries such as automation, robotics, and software development, leading to new systems and technologies.
  2. Understanding the prospects of advanced AI is crucial for future developments and aligning diverse interests towards common goals.
  3. This project aims to explore the transformative potential and implications of AI on global society and invites readers to rethink the future possibilities shaped by artificial intelligence.

OneClick Stable Diffusion Installer that comes prepackaged with SD1.5 and SD2.0

Barn Lab • 0 implied HN points • 25 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Software Installation Generative Art Neural Networks
  1. The OneClick Stable Diffusion Installer includes SD 1.5 and SD 2.0 models to simplify installation for users.
  2. The installer provides integrated model downloader to access famous models within the SD interface.
  3. For those interested in AI generative art, AUTOMATIC1111 is a feature-packed interface worth exploring after trying InvokeAI.

massgrave.dev

Barn Lab • 0 implied HN points • 31 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Software Activation Piracy Microsoft Tools
  1. You can download Windows for free from Microsoft and install it without a key, but a watermark may appear after some time.
  2. Legitimate options to remove the watermark include purchasing an activation key from Kinguin or transferring an old activation key from Windows 7 onwards.
  3. There are legal ways to activate Windows using HWID, KMS activation methods, or MAS Scripts available from massgrave.dev.

MITRE ATT&CK

Barn Lab • 0 implied HN points • 18 May 23
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Threats Tools Networks Devices
  1. Disseminating cybersecurity knowledge is important but can also be risky.
  2. MITRE ATT&CK is a valuable resource for understanding cybersecurity threats and defenses.
  3. The MITRE ATT&CK matrix provides detailed information on adversary behaviors and techniques.

Coming soon

lawrence’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 21 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Substack
  1. A new Substack newsletter by Lawrence Fossi is coming soon.
  2. The Substack link is montanaskeptic.substack.com.
  3. The newsletter post invites readers to subscribe and share the upcoming content.

The future of instant messaging

Venture Prose • 0 implied HN points • 15 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Messaging Privacy Features Application Encryption
  1. Consider managing instant messaging notifications to avoid being overwhelmed by distractions.
  2. Roze is a messaging app that prioritizes privacy, allowing users to have control over their conversations and notifications.
  3. Roze offers various features like end-to-end encryption, customizable settings, and intimate messaging spaces for specific groups of contacts.

No room for the olds

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends • 0 implied HN points • 24 Mar 14
🕹 Technology Ageism Government Robots Computers Data Tracking
  1. Eli Pariser founded a popular website and the team's success was due to clickbait headline strategies.
  2. Silicon Valley faces significant ageism issues, with workers in their late 20s resorting to plastic surgery to appear younger.
  3. Some government workers still use outdated manual paper-based systems for paperwork, showcasing a lack of modern efficiency.

CanJam 23 NYC: What's Ahead in Headphones

Resiliency Tech • 0 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Gadgets Audio Wireless Tech advancements Innovation
  1. At CanJam, headphone enthusiasts are predominantly male, young, and willing to pay for small improvements in performance.
  2. Wireless Bluetooth headphones are improving but still lag behind wired models in performance.
  3. Headphone amplifiers are gaining popularity for driving hard-to-move drivers in headphones, yielding better performance at lower volumes.

Why Jules Verne Would Love These French Wireless Bathys Headphones From Focal

Resiliency Tech • 0 implied HN points • 18 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Headphones Wireless Design Travel
  1. Jules Verne would love the French Wireless Bathys Headphones for their design and connection to technology and adventure.
  2. The Bathys headphones provide top-notch noise suppression, appealing especially to critical music lovers.
  3. The versatile Bathys headphones offer two noise suppression modes and can be used as wired headphones for home use.

API or Platform

Venture Prose • 0 implied HN points • 29 Jul 16
🕹 Technology Startups API Platform Entrepreneurship Data
  1. Entrepreneurs should focus on either building a BtoB SaaS API or a Platform, not both simultaneously.
  2. A BtoB SaaS API offers technology for others to use, while a Platform provides both technology and data to users.
  3. Platforms, which combine tech and data, are harder to succeed with compared to APIs, which focus solely on technology.

Coming soon

GeoPredict • 0 implied HN points • 28 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Software Website
  1. A website called GeoPredict is coming soon, with an expected launch date of July 28, 2023.
  2. The website appears to be hosted on substack.com.
  3. There are options to share information about GeoPredict on Facebook, via email, or through other means.

Prediction and negative-delay filters: five things you should know

filterwizard • 0 implied HN points • 19 Aug 24
🕹 Technology Filters Signal Processing Control Systems Data Analysis
  1. Filters can delay signals as they take time to process inputs and produce outputs. It's important to understand this delay, especially when working with different types of signals.
  2. While you can't completely eliminate delay in filters, you can create compensating filters to achieve zero or even negative group delay at certain frequencies. This can improve the accuracy of your system responses.
  3. Negative-delay filters can actually predict future values of a signal based on its current ramping behavior. This can be really useful in control systems and financial data analysis.

My 1986 exploration of subtractive crossovers 'done my way'

filterwizard • 0 implied HN points • 27 Aug 24
🕹 Technology Audio engineering Signal Processing
  1. When you combine highpass and lowpass filters, you often don't get the original signal back, which can affect how music sounds. This can be a problem because the phase shift isn't what you'd expect from just delaying the signal.
  2. In the past, before digital processing was common, there was a big need to find better ways to design these filters. One solution was to use a subtractive method to reduce the 'insult' to the signal.
  3. The work from the mid-80s shows that by carefully designing analog filters and using subtraction, you can achieve a closer match to the original signal without extra distortion.

Yet More On Decoupling, Part 1: The Regulator’s Interaction with capacitors

filterwizard • 0 implied HN points • 07 Sep 24
🕹 Technology Engineering Electronics Simulation Circuit Design
  1. Using Y5V capacitors can be tricky. Always check how the DC voltage affects their capacitance because it can drop much lower than expected.
  2. Linear dropout regulators (LDOs) can have increasing output inductance when the load current decreases. This can cause unexpected peaks in impedance, so adding a bypass capacitor can help smooth things out.
  3. Simulating circuits before building them is really helpful. It helps catch problems early and saves time in the long run.

Yet More On Decoupling, Part 4 – Don’t Get Into A Macromuddle!

filterwizard • 0 implied HN points • 08 Sep 24
🕹 Technology Electronics Simulation Circuit Design Modeling Amplifiers
  1. Many op-amp simulation models don’t accurately show how they react to power supply changes. This makes it hard to trust the results from these models.
  2. Just because an op-amp is high quality doesn't mean its simulation model will behave well in tests. It's important to check each model individually.
  3. Finding a reliable op-amp model for testing took a lot of effort. Even after trying many, only a few performed as expected.