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hello Karl!
my replies below clearsigned as usual,
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On Monday, April 26, 2021 6:42 AM, Karl <gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Couldn't a user provide their own keystrokes, mouse movements,
> etc and fine-tune a personalised model on their own system?
this would simply be personalization, not behavioral prediction.
? I do not see personal behavior prediction as a contradiction.
all of the behavioral prediction models are based on statistics;
you need a sufficient sample size to make inferences from the
data.
i don't know of any methods that work with a sample size of 1.
if you look at open source projects for behavioral modeling and
prediction, you see they all use large datasets to build the
models.
E.g. https://github.com/numenta/nupic,
https://github.com/numenta/nupic.core
Looks like it would work, to me, with some work.
If that's not clear to you:
- models trained on huge datasets can be fine-tuned on small datasets and work effectively
- a single user has a lot of statistical data. The sample size is not one: it is every streaming datapoint they produce.
- many users are likely to be interested in trying it out.
> But wouldn't it be _better_ to have this data out in the public
> than held privately by marketing and military organisations?
i am not convinced it would be better: consider being a victim
of identity theft. should you just post your personal info out
in the clear, knowing that some are using it already?
no, that'd just make the problem worse.
I guess this depends on your relationship with marketing and military organisations vs your relationship with the rest of the world.
If you are a military target among a community of caring academics, it seems far better to have your data in the clear than privately held.
same with an open source open data privacy invasion system:
it's still privacy invasive and detrimental!
there are some uses of technology that just SHOULD NOT BE.
i remain open to changing my mind, however :)
Yeah this is like drugs, guns, or cryptography, it gets more violent if the resource is not in the clear for those who desire it to be.