I submitted an automatically-generated paper in a High School English class back in, well let's just say before I logged onto the internet for the first time. It received the highest grade in the class, an A+++++++ (although I think that was the teacher's idea of a joke... she must have suspected something was funny about my paper.) To generate the paper, I just wrote a program to generate a random (though grammatical) sentence, and repeated it for a few pages, so there was not much structure to the paper.
What you need is a smart card that contains your secret key, but never reveals it. Instead, it performs decryption/signing when authorized to do so , preferably by some biometric input like a fingerprint. Thus the fingerprint would never be revealed either. Take the card with you. It should also be possible to make a backup of your card somehow... the backup could still not be used without your fingerprint, so losing it would not be too bad.
Taking it one step further, this could also replace some ID cards, credit cards, office keys, etc.
It should not be that hard to make... I want one!
One of the keys to making a statistical model work is to make wise choices about what statistics to collect, and what dependencies to include. For example, N-grams work by predicting the probability of a certain word appearing given the previous word or so; this kind of works but misses a lot because the structure of a sentence is more like a tree than a series. More complex models can capture more relevant information. On the other hand, if the model is too complex, it won't work for two reasons: because it requires too much memory/cpu, and because you can't get a reliable estimate of the probabilities without multiple examples of each situation (this problem is called data sparsity).
We did this a couple years ago in my kitchen (photo here). It works great, I highly recommend it. Just make a regular ice cream recipe and stir in an equal amount of nitrogen.
The leftover LN is fun to play with too... one of my favorites is dipping balloons in it so they shrink down to nothing. Then put them in a cup. After a minute, balloons start coming out of the cup, much to the amazement of anyone who didn't see you put them in.
I once had a job that involved connecting to Quark and Pagemaker using their developer interfaces. I don't know if things are better now, but at that time the Quark API was a nasty mess compared to Pagemakers nice clean well-documented API.
And when I complained about it in a public forum, they had the nerve to send "cease and desist" letters demanding that I take down my comments!
Cash only has value because people think it does. It used to be based on real value (gold) but all that is left is an illusion. However, there are plenty of alternatives, such as the Liberty Dollar.
Seriously, it sounds like a great idea, but I'm afraid I won't be able to use it due to fears of being stuck up a creek without a license, or without a compiler for Linux, etc.
Functional languages (such as ML) have some very powerful features lacked by C++,C#,Java,etc. The ML module system rocks, and so does its handling of polymorphism. I've been waiting for years for someone to hook it up with a practical library and development environment so I could use it for real work.
Speaking of robots and CMU, if you're anywhere near Pittsburgh I highly recommend coming down to campus to see them for yourself. The Robot Soccer competition is open to the public, today through Sunday. Details here
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I submitted an automatically-generated paper in a High School English class back in, well let's just say before I logged onto the internet for the first time. It received the highest grade in the class, an A+++++++ (although I think that was the teacher's idea of a joke... she must have suspected something was funny about my paper.) To generate the paper, I just wrote a program to generate a random (though grammatical) sentence, and repeated it for a few pages, so there was not much structure to the paper.
This is on the right track...
What you need is a smart card that contains your secret key, but never reveals it. Instead, it performs decryption/signing when authorized to do so , preferably by some biometric input like a fingerprint. Thus the fingerprint would never be revealed either. Take the card with you. It should also be possible to make a backup of your card somehow... the backup could still not be used without your fingerprint, so losing it would not be too bad.
Taking it one step further, this could also replace some ID cards, credit cards, office keys, etc. It should not be that hard to make... I want one!
One of the keys to making a statistical model work is to make wise choices about what statistics to collect, and what dependencies to include. For example, N-grams work by predicting the probability of a certain word appearing given the previous word or so; this kind of works but misses a lot because the structure of a sentence is more like a tree than a series. More complex models can capture more relevant information. On the other hand, if the model is too complex, it won't work for two reasons: because it requires too much memory/cpu, and because you can't get a reliable estimate of the probabilities without multiple examples of each situation (this problem is called data sparsity).
We did this a couple years ago in my kitchen (photo here). It works great, I highly recommend it. Just make a regular ice cream recipe and stir in an equal amount of nitrogen.
The leftover LN is fun to play with too... one of my favorites is dipping balloons in it so they shrink down to nothing. Then put them in a cup. After a minute, balloons start coming out of the cup, much to the amazement of anyone who didn't see you put them in.
I once had a job that involved connecting to Quark and Pagemaker using their developer interfaces.
I don't know if things are better now, but at that time the Quark API was a nasty mess compared to Pagemakers nice clean well-documented API.
And when I complained about it in a public forum, they had the nerve to send "cease and desist" letters demanding that I take down my comments!
Cash only has value because people think it does. It used to be based on real value (gold) but all that is left is an illusion. However, there are plenty of alternatives, such as the Liberty Dollar.
Seriously, it sounds like a great idea, but I'm afraid I won't be able to use it due to fears of being stuck up a creek without a license, or without a compiler for Linux, etc.
Functional languages (such as ML) have some very powerful features lacked by C++,C#,Java,etc. The ML module system rocks, and so does its handling of polymorphism. I've been waiting for years for someone to hook it up with a practical library and development environment so I could use it for real work.
Speaking of robots and CMU, if you're anywhere near Pittsburgh I highly recommend coming down to campus to see them for yourself. The Robot Soccer competition is open to the public, today through Sunday. Details here
Hmm, 17x4cm makes a somewhat LARGE wristwatch.
Why voting for GORE is like using a MICROSOFT operating system.
Gore: increases government spending
MS: increases use of cpu, ram, disk:
Gore: puts the surplus to work
MS: fills any surplus space on your hard disk
Gore: military?
MS: security?
Gore: invented the internet
MS: invented operating systems and graphical user interfaces
Gore: knows better than you how to run your life
MS: knows better than you how to run your computer