Yeah, that New Zealand imperialism has been getting out of hand lately.
Readit Newsbluekeybox commented on New Zealand spying on Pacific islands, Snowden leaks say bbc.com/news/world-asia-3... · Posted by u/happyscrappy
bluekeybox commented on Ai Weiwei Is Living in Our Future medium.com/@hansdezwart/a... · Posted by u/dirtyaura
No, he's not.
bluekeybox commented on Google to close engineering office in Russia reuters.com/article/2014/... · Posted by u/azov
Kaspersky is interesting. I like their security labs but I am always aware their founder was FSB (KGB-trained) and has good relations with senior personnel (nomenklatura) there, so, while I don't think it's automatic that Kaspersky would do the Russ gov 'favors' it's not out of the question either however Wired has reported as such.
> while I don't think it's automatic that Kaspersky would do the Russ gov 'favors'
What's with this amazing inability of us Westerners to learn from past mistakes and endless optimism about benevolent intention of others? You'd think we would have corrected this by now, eg. after http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/russiago.... Personally FYI, I understand the optimism, but less so the inability to learn.
TL;DR Sorry, it's automatic. No such thing as ex-KGB. [/End of rant].
There is a brilliant new book (albeit somewhat advanced) that I don't see in this list: Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Data Analysis (2014) by Kevin Sheppard. PDF available for free here: https://www.kevinsheppard.com/images/0/09/Python_introductio...
Can someone explain the purpose of this? The only reason I can think of to have this (which Animats mentions in a comment) is to allow fighters with modest fuel tanks to attack deep in territory they couldn't otherwise reach. But this problem is a lot easier to solve with in-air refueling, which has been used since the Korean war.
you may not want the enemy to know you're sending a fleet of fighter jets in their direction.
bluekeybox commented on The Flaw Lurking in Every Deep Neural Net i-programmer.info/news/10... · Posted by u/bowyakka
Nobody pointed this out yet. It would be very interesting to keep finding such perturbations that mess up learning and repeatedly add the new-found examples to the training set, retraining the model in the process. I wonder if after a finite number of iterations the resulting model would be near-optimal (impossible to perturb without losing its human recognizability) -- or, if this is impossible, if we could derive some proofs for why precisely this is impossible.
bluekeybox commented on Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/blackbagboys
Related and a very good BBC documentary on the role (and tragedy) of engineering and planning in the USSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI
bluekeybox commented on Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault foreignaffairs.com/articl... · Posted by u/mixmax
One can judge if the author is honest or not for himself.
I would offer the readers the essay he penned 21 years ago in 1993: http://johnmearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0020.pdf
There he goes at length to explain why Russia is very likely to try and re-conquer Ukraine. Interesting how he comes up with a whole different set of reasons for this eventuality today.
Amazing, thank you for this link.
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bluekeybox commented on Russia Pulls Space Cooperation in Response to Ukraine Sanctions newsweek.com/russia-pulls... · Posted by u/Holbein
So, the beatings will continue until morale improves? Is that the best offer you got?
Fucking hell. No wonder this world ain't worth saving.
You don't understand my point. If you look at human psychology, things connected to power are often fascinating, but not always in the "I'm going to get the other guy and beat the shit of him" way. Young boys are fascinated with toy helicopters, trucks, army soldiers, and yes, spaceships, but they aren't being evil/scheming about it. For them, it's just a game. There are two levels of fascination with power: a) the childish "ooh that's cool" and b) the adult "hmm, we would be a pretty powerful nation/team/individuals if we got hold of it".
But the underlying reason why something is fascinating -- because it is connected with power -- doesn't change. So it is hypocritical to claim that "I want this and that, and my intention are innocent and sincere" when the object of your desire is a helicopter gunship. Now, something flying at 7.8 km per second is potentially far more dangerous than a helicopter gunship.
In other words, wanting space exploration to be free of politics is essentially wanting power to be free of politics. Which is a bit oxymoronic. As soon as your exploration produces something interesting, be it knowledge, materials, or even location, someone else is going to want it for themselves.