Dave Cake
@strangedave
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Digital rights and Internet governance, Security. ICANN activist, fan, geek. I'm on Team Freedom. @[email protected]
Sunny Perth, Western Australia
Joined February 2008
RT @ID_AA_Carmack: “Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skil….
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RT @chaosupdates: An extreme example of a manufacturers’ arbitrary DRM being used to prevent independent repair of the device they made: Pa….
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Sad to hear, one of the more interesting thinkers in the AI world.
Oh wow, Doug Lenat just died. Damn :(. Cyc was one of the things that got me super, super interested in computing as a teenager.
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This is great news.
🚨Australia announces it has abandoned a plan to mandate age-verification of adult sites, citing concerns about privacy, security and implementation, after nearly two years of study. It will instead focus on parental education around device level filters.
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RT @TheOnion: Hypothetically, suppose that someone’s futurist philosophy as a tech billionaire is nothing more than thinly veiled fascism,….
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If you believe the 432 vs 440 Hz stuff matters, you don’t understand how frequency, music, and especially history of music, work. If you link it to anything pre-16th century, especially numerology, delusional deep crazy territory.
🤦♂️ It seems the 440Hz tuning frequency conspiracy theory is still flourishing. There are no scientific studies that support the tuning frequency hypothesis. Further reading:
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I've studied both computer science neural networks and neuroscience research. Computer science tends to believe building something vaguely similar in operation is more important than actual observation. Especially about neuroscience.
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RT @0xDesigner: Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst v….
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RT @stringy: well this is interesting! Even if the opt-in search bot doesn't work, Anil has done a great job laying out the pros and cons o….
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RT @anton_chuvakin: Yes, I still see people who equate "defense in depth" with "using two firewalls of two different brands in series." Y….
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