Her comments on the nature of the threat from Russia and China are well put and stand up to analysis. That she was stating these things in public suggests that she wants the politicians to stop dithering and she is correct about that.
Her comments on tech seen naive. The tech world won't take her seriously and with good reason.
Parkinson's and Parkinsonism have a lot of causes. If a person is exposed to any chemical that has defatting or nerve harming properties, like TCE, or various insecticides, they are at risk.
The way to avoid - or mitigate against this is to just limit exposure. A co worker ended up with Parkinsonism because he used a lot of hexane that was in contact cement for mounting photos without ventilation. Avoiding all exposure is probably impossible.
Yes. There is clearly more than one "cause", but the proximate cause is chemicals tricking the immune system into attacking specific cells.
What the MAHA people don't do is read papers. I do.
E.G. Here's a train of thought:
1) A long time ago, in the UK, a study showed a significant correlation between Parkinson's and exposure to insecticides.
2) More recently, a study showed lectins from wheat forming a ring around the vagus nerve and traveling up it to the Parkinson's site in the brain where biosimilarity between the lectins and tissues in the brain set up the autoimmune reaction that is part of Parkinson's. This wasn't a dodgy correlation study, they took photographs.
3) 99+% of the insecticides modern human's encounter are the "natural" insecticides in plants.
Conclusion : I'm suspicious of wheat and not for the usual reasons.
In the case of R, it's because it's the only place where high quality research level statistical algorithms are built en masse (ML libraries in python are not a substitute, they tend to be built by non-subject matter experts who don't even know that there are corner cases)
A long time ago I helped my wife with writing R scripts for her PhD. Why? MANOVER. Your average stats library will do ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) but not MANOVER (Multivariate Analysis of Variance). R did the MANOVER. It could also read in the CSV and had plenty of distribution models to apply.
Of course, I read up and wrote my own MANOVER implementation in python so I don't have to touch that horrible R language ever again. There's a little bit of R in my RNG book, but that's because it's in a section reviewing the distribution support in languages and so R is there because that's what it does well.
When I'm in charge, that's the font they'll be required to use.
Indeed it covers more than one area of law.
The two that were in my mind were (1) Copyright infringement and (2) patent infringement.
However I was using "theft" colloquially since I'm way too lazy to write like a lawyer.
When the AI steals the ideas of others and presents it as a new idea to the AI user, it's still theft and the inventor is the original inventor and the ideas were on the open internet to be scraped by the AI and so is prior art.
The challenge is that you have to be sure you're booking with the actual hotel. The middle men are sneaky and make the web site look like they are the real thing. The actual hotel web site is never the first on the search list. Blame the shitty SEO merchants. SEO should be renamed "FIO" Fraudulent Impersonation Optimization.
I like big apps, I cannot lie.
>Either way that tells me I'm not hallucinating that the two both used the same voltage.
Yes. 19V. Like every other barrel connector powered laptop.
I swear, the QC people will go one by one through the error correction codes until they have caught up with the current state of the art in error correction. They've done LDPC so they'll be onto quantum polar codes next - mark my words.
"...even though there are very few Cobol-literate coders available to maintain them."
I had a programming opportunity that involved programming in RPG on an IBM platform. I had zero experience with the language or platform, but wanted the job, so I did a very deep dive into all things RPG and IBM, nailed the interview, got hired, and have been modifying and developing new programs for short of two years. It was a wonderful change from 35+ years as an IT generalist, and I haven't looked back.
This.
Cobol is not a complicated language. It does fewer things than your fancy modern language.
It looks complicated because it's verbose.
If you can learn C, you can learn Cobol.
It's never come up that I've had to use Cobol in a job, but if it did, I don't perceive a problem learning it if that's what was needed. We covered it in language theory in my computer science degree 35 years ago and there was so little there compared to the other languages we studied (Eiffel, Standard ML, Erlang, C, Pascal, Prolog, SISAL and the like were in vogue), that it only took half a lecture.
Keep on reading the papers.
The key thing to make QC work is the ability to do logic on error corrected qbits with scalable error correction.
We are not remotely close and there's no sign of a plan to get there.
The quantum surface codes and quantum LDPC stuff that claimed to solve the problem clearly do not. You just have to read the papers and find the bit where it gives the error correction capability vs the unreliability of the underlying non error corrected qbits. Compute the binomial error distribution for factoring a 1024 and 2048 bit RSA. You will find just how fantastically far away we are from having a working quantum computer.
Too bad nobody uses it. I'm always caught between europeans insisting on whatsapp and applepickers insisting on facetime. I always tell people to call and/or text me on signal, and they never do.
All the technical people I know use Signal.
Those of us conversant in cryptography have studied the protocol and found it to be good.
The ratchet, oblivious RAMs, good algorithm choices and much more.
It reads more like they did the logical thing.
ML-KEM is the new NIST standard for transferring a key (ML=Modular Lattice, KEM=Key Encapsulation Method). It's the default choice for a post quantum KEM.
With the ratchet, the logical thing to do is to tack on a third cog using ML-KEM. That's what they did.
Also you need to accommodate the huge numbers that ML-KEM uses. That's what they did.
It's a fine design, done well and deserving of praise - especially deploying a hybrid scheme against the best efforts of the NSA to stop that, but I don't think it counts as an amazing engineering achievement.
Calling is SPQR is pretty funny for someone who grew up in a formally Roman fortress town.
You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.
