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How CoinJoins Achieve Anonymity In A Crowd

Anonymity is the end goal when studying privacy, and de-anonymization is likened to a guessing game where an adversary attempts to identify individuals from a set of candidates.

Privacy professionals

Artificial intelligence

fromPsychology Today

1 month ago

AI Is a Smooth Operator, but Shallow Thinker

LLMs compress language but lose the subtlety of human understanding.

They mimic thought, but lack true semantic depth or nuance.

AI fluency hides the deeper cognitive blind spot that coherence isn't comprehension.

fromWIRED

4 months ago

The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

The internet theoretically has weight, estimated using different methods, but varies dramatically based on assumptions about energy and data encoding.

fromHackernoon

3 years ago

Wisdom Field - A Theory of Everything | HackerNoon

For centuries, we've assumed that reality is made of matter and energyâthat space-time is the fundamental backdrop of existence. But what if we've had it backwards?

philosophy

fromHackernoon

8 months ago

Understanding Knowledge Collapse and Its Relation to Historical and Current Knowledge | HackerNoon

Wider tails in data distribution exacerbate knowledge collapse, moving public knowledge further from true knowledge.