July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin version 0.6.2 available
by Gavin Andresen 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/ This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features. NOTABLE CHANGES =============== Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer portable to different data directories by default. If you need a portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference. Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that could cause long-running nodes to crash. Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system). CHANGE SUMMARY ============== Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release. Source codebase changes: - Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall - Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes - Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD JSON-RPC interface changes: - addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet) Network protocol changes: - protocol version 60001 - added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31) - added new "pong" message (BIP 31) Backend storage changes: - Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download - Shutdown improvements (see above) Qt user interface: - minor URI handling improvements - progressbar improvements - error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception, etc.) - by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release: Chris Moore Dwayne C. Litzenberger Gavin Andresen Jeff Garzik Luke Dashjr Matt Corallo Philip Kaufmann Pieter Wuille R E Broadley Timothy Redaelli Wladimir J. van der Laan cardpuncher freewil graingert sje397 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ bitcoin-list mailing list bitcoin-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

1 0

None
by James A.. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Origami world. To be honest, I was thinking about lots dots - no easily inferred shapes, but pretty obvious for a human. If the state-of-the-art software using neural nets and what not is capable of reading even *letters* made up of many dots (circles) in different colors, shapes, and textures (and with many "false" dots in colors that blend in the background for the human eye), then the programmers are much more advanced than anything I read about. > Computer generates a random 3D object out of large polygons with fairly > sharp angles of contact, subject to various limits on the way in which the > object is generated. Displays 2D image of 3D object. > > Human infers 3D object from 2D image, infers unseen portions of the image > from rules by which the 3D image is generated -- for example that the > object must make sense mechanically -- that it should be stable resting on > a plane. I don't know how well people would manage to do that. One requirement was to be easy for a human to answer the puzzle. Mark

1 0

[bitcoin-list] Bitcoin version 0.6.2 available
by Gavin Andresen 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Bitcoin version 0.6.2 is now available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.2/ This is a bug-fix and code-cleanup release, with no major new features. NOTABLE CHANGES =============== Much faster shutdowns. However, the blkindex.dat file is no longer portable to different data directories by default. If you need a portable blkindex.dat file then run with the new -detachdb=1 option or the "Detach databases at shutdown" GUI preference. Fixed https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1065, a bug that could cause long-running nodes to crash. Mac and Windows binaries are compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1b (Linux binaries are dynamically linked to the version of OpenSSL on the system). CHANGE SUMMARY ============== Use 'git shortlog --no-merges v0.6.0..' for a summary of this release. Source codebase changes: - Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall - Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes - Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD JSON-RPC interface changes: - addmultisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet) Network protocol changes: - protocol version 60001 - added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31) - added new "pong" message (BIP 31) Backend storage changes: - Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download - Shutdown improvements (see above) Qt user interface: - minor URI handling improvements - progressbar improvements - error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception, etc.) - by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green Thanks to everybody who contributed to this release: Chris Moore Dwayne C. Litzenberger Gavin Andresen Jeff Garzik Luke Dashjr Matt Corallo Philip Kaufmann Pieter Wuille R E Broadley Timothy Redaelli Wladimir J. van der Laan cardpuncher freewil graingert sje397 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ bitcoin-list mailing list bitcoin-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

1 0

Magic Lantern
by Singleton, Norman 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The FBI Congressional Liason office respond to my inquiry on Magic Lantern by telling me they could not provide me with any information on this because it is "classified." She also said she was told that the project is still being developed and it was a "mistake" that coverage of this has made it into the media. The Congressional liaison also said the folks working on this would not tell her anything about the project. Norman Kirk Singleton Legislative Director Congressman Ron Paul 202-225-2831 (ph) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0