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Silk encryption
by professor rat 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

REG story reminded me of one of the best stories out of WW2 - " Between Silk and Cyanide ". Silk was eventually decided to store codes as it could easily be burned in an emergency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Silk_and_Cyanide Now isn't it time Semich, Batshit and Dumbell took the Gramps cyanide?

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Cryptocurrency: Seasteading Utopias!?
by grarpamp 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

> A group of anti-vaxxers is reportedly building a community off the coast > of southeastern Africa > > https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-loving-anti-vax-group-seeks-like-mind… https://cryptoland.is/ A crypto paradise where the community can surround themselves with other like-minded individuals. A powerful ecosystem by crypto enthusiasts for crypto enthusiasts. Cryptoland is the world's first private crypto island designed to enjoy a first-class crypto lifestyle. An international hub to live, work and relax. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cryptoland

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The Register: Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
by jim bell 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

The Register: Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/silken_secur…

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STX Wire Fraud - Stacks CEO Discusses MIA Coin and NYCCoin
by Gunnar Larson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

The Wire Fraud statute makes it illegal for anyone to use, or cause the use of “wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce” for the purposes of executing a scheme to defraud or to obtain money by false or fraudulent pretenses. It is punishable by *up to 20 years in prison: * https://www.new-york-lawyers.org/wire-fraud.html#:~:text=The%20Wire%20Fraud… . -------- Stacks Founder and CEO careless wire fraud in a new CityCoin's promotion: https://www.citycoins.co/post/stacks-founder-muneeb-ali-shares-his-thoughts… Muneeb Ali <https://twitter.com/muneeb>, the founder of Stacks <https://www.stacks.co/> and CEO of Hiro Systems <https://www.hiro.so/>, shares his thoughts on CityCoins and the project’s potential to accelerate meaningful change. CityCoins is built on the Stacks Protocol — a layer-1 blockchain that recycles Bitcoin’s PoW in a way that is both secure and resource-efficient <https://www.citycoins.co/post/citycoins-are-environmentally-friendly>. Muneeb has been following the project’s development since inception and had a lot to say about CityCoins. What excites you the most about the CityCoins project? I feel like crypto networks could actually be a very unique and new way of facilitating public-private partnerships. Take MiamiCoin for example. If you live in Miami, you're from there, you're interested in the city, or just want to be a part of the Miami economy — there’s now a way for you to get involved. There is a crypto asset that represents the community of Miami that could spread globally. And there are so many interesting things you can build on top of CityCoins. It opens up a new design space for government services and other types of community activity. What types of applications are you most excited to see the CityCoins community build using MiamiCoin, NYCCoin, and other future city-specific tokens? Interfaces to government services. Government software has historically been painful to use. You can theoretically get really good engineers to build modern apps for government services by incentivizing them and letting them integrate CityCoins like Miami’s and New York City’s in the apps. -- *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xNY.io> | Bank.org <http://Bank.org>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-646-454-9107 New York, New York 10001

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Duesberg
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

" O’Brien pulled a manuscript from the inside pocket of his tuxedo. Headlined “HIV Causes AIDS: Koch’s Postulates Fulfilled,” it had three very incongruous names at the bottom: Stephen O’Brien, William Blattner, and Peter Duesberg. Nature editor John Maddox had commissioned this apologia as inducement. If Duesberg would only sign the mea culpa, O’Brien implored, he could have everything back. He would be back at the top again, back in the safe bastion of Dr. Fauci’s medical and science establishment. Duesberg refused the bribe" Compare Duesberg to the covaids technonazi turds on this list, who pose as technonazi 'anarchists'.

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Certificates
by razorleaker 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

https://www.securitylab.ru/certificates/crt_fsb/

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The Bank of London vs. The Bank of London and the Middle East
by Gunnar Larson 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Goldman Sachs' Deferred Prosecution Agreement <https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/goldman-sachs-resolves-foreign-bribery…> with the United States of America is in potential breach, with ethical enforcement being concerned. The Department of Justice has yet to respond to Memo #1 with our recent inquiry <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OsxfjN3TUepftKklopkQDSMwFWstWozuku4IPPu…> to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad Deferred Agreement. *What (if anything), does The Bank of London have to do with all of this?* - November 30, 2021 two New York based firms lead investment in The Bank of London based in the United Kingdom. - July 1, 2007 The Bank of London and the Middle East opened in the United Kingdom. - The Bank of London and the Middle East confirms they have no association with The Bank of London (below). The Bank of London seemingly has been funded from New York to irritate the Middle East. Recently, we made 91 highlights of research <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O2piNMJ3CI0wbfaFW33to3KhgOgZ8-dl/view?usp=…> associated with The Bank of London and the Middle East's recent sale to a firm in Kuwait. Harvey Schwartz is the Chairperson at The Bank of London, after spending over 20 years at Goldman Sachs Group, where he oversaw sales and trading, finance, technology, and operations. He completed his tenure as the firm’s President and Co-Chief Operating Officer. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 and subsequently held numerous senior leadership positions including Chief Financial Officer, Global Co-Head of the Securities Division, amongst other positions. He additionally served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee and co-headed its Risk Committee, Steering Committee on Regulatory Reform and Finance Committee. Mr. Schwartz established the firm’s Investment Policy Committee on which he also served as a member. It would appear that Mr. Schwartz has no friendly diplomatic agenda in London banking, potentially looking to profit off of The Bank of London and the Middle East. Furthermore, Goldman Sachs seemingly has a part in the scheme from New York. Bank of London and the Middle East is listed on the NASDAQ, Dubai. ------- On Tue, Dec 7, 2021, 6:06 AM Info Reply <Info.Reply(a)blme.com> wrote: > Hi Gunnar – we have no affiliation with TBOL. > > > > Thank you. > > > > *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> > *Sent:* 01 December 2021 08:57 > *To:* shareholders <Shareholders(a)BLME.com> > *Cc:* Info <info(a)BLME.com> > *Subject:* Investor Relations - The Bank of London > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the organisation. > *DO NOT *click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender > and know the content is safe. > ------------------------------ > > Dear Madam or Sir: > > > > The Bank of London and the Middle East notes that the department > of Investor Relations provides the public with information about BLME > including information that is of specific interest to our Shareholders > including announcements, financial statements and details of our corporate > governance. > > > > Keeping this aforementioned in mind, we were kindly inquiring if BLME and > newly announced The Bank of London > <https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-bank-of-london-launches-today-…> (TBOL) > have any official affiliation? > > > > Looking forward to learning your feedback on BLME and any TBOL > affiliation. > > > > Sending you the very best regards. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gunnar > -- > > *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> | Bank.org <http://bank.org/>* > > MSc > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&u…> - > Digital Currency > > MBA > <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovat…> - Entrepreneurship > and Innovation (ip) > > > > G(a)xNY.io > > +1-646-454-9107 > > New York, New York 10001 >

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[spam] [personal] perceiver model notes
by k 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

- perceiver was made by google; it's a specific attention tweak to encoder/decoder transformer, i think - perceiver is now in huggingface in src/transformers/models/perceiver some of the classes, for the second half of the pipeline, also preprocessors PerceiverAbstractDecoder: decoder base class PerceiverMultimodalDecoder: decodes model results into many forms of simultaneous results PerceiverBasicVideoAutoencodingDecoder: for models that produce video PerceiverOpticalFlowDecoder: for models that produce optical flow information PerceiverClassificationDecoder: for models that produce labels from a fixed set PerceiverBasicDecoder: a basic decoder for producing data, using cross attention PerceiverProjectionDecoder: a decoder that does not use cross attention Conv2DDownsample: downsamples data 4x using torch.nn.Conv2d and padding PerceiverAbstractPositionEncoding: base class for position encoding PerceiverTrainablePositonEncoding: position encoding that is trained PerceiverFourierPositionEncoding: position encoding that produces normal (fourier sinusoid) position embeddings based on channel people say that without position embeddings, the channel on which data is received is not used as information AbstractPreprocessor: preprocessor base class PerceiverTextPreprocessor: an embedding encoder for perceiver PerceiverEmbeddingDecoder: an embedding decoder for perceiver embeddings are matrices that convert between integer ids (words) and n-dimensional vectors (points in meaning space) PerceiverMultimodalPreprocessor: converts many kinds of data to a single group of input PerceiverAudioPreprocessor: converts audio to transformer input PerceiverOneHotPreprocessor: adds dummy index dimension to input PerceiverImagePreprocessor: convert image to transformer input, performs significant transformation PerceiverMultimodalPostprocessor: unconverts data into different kinds of postprocessed data PerceiverProjectionPostprocessor: uses linear combination to downsample data [training prevents information loss] PerceiverAudioPostprocessor: downsampling for audio features PerceiverClassificationPostprocessor: downsampling for classification log probs to a set of labels

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[ot][spam][crazy] empty thread for unk
by k 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

this is a thread, possibly for [self-]relation around situation, or anything else

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Down with these strong, blue-collar, trade-unionists.
by professor rat 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Six law enforcement officers shot in major US cities in less than 48 hours! The Police are the cornerstone of the State (though sometimes, in extreme cases, the Government of the day needs to use the armed forces ) Only Anarchism believes in abolition of the Police. Most political reformers have some part of the unfree system they wish to abolish Republicans would abolish the monarchy, Secularists would abolish or disestablish the Church, Socialists would (or used to) wish to abolish the apparatus of exploitation; pacifists would abolish the Army. Anarchism is unique in wishing to abolish all.

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