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Stamps for email?

This idea has been discussed for decades now. I like it

https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti-spam_20_27stamps_27#124...


I don't like it. All kind of legit services use email, such as Steam when you made a purchase, or health service. The idea that they won't move the weight of the loss to you, is ludicrous. Ergo, price goes up, and you either get paid or lose out more. It is a race to the bottom, kind of like using Brave to block ads and show their own.

It also adds to the adagium that all spam solutions ultimately do not work, and Bill Gates proposed all of them (a meme, too).

Furthermore, email is a broken protocol not because of federation (something alternatives usually lack) but because of lack of E2EE.


I don't need E2EE on my email even though I know govts and corporations are reading my email. But I also want that recruiter email or email from zoom telling me if they are going to give me discount on my next payment cycle. And most people will put zoom, steam, and any other services like bank and govt agencies in the white list. So no costs will not rise. I don't use steam so even if steam pays money to send me mail with their offers , still I will delete it and they understand that. So unless it's a recruitment offer from steam they don't need to pay money to send mail to me. So prices won't rise because corporations will only rely on customers who are white listing them. Anyone else they will not send so overall the prices will go down rather than go up. You may think but how will Steam get new customers if not flooding the planet by emails. They would turn to influencers and affiliates. Maybe they already use them.


Well, you nailed it there. Nice work


Wonderful essay! OP's tireless research is appreciated.


Yes. Amazing read. This is the kind of content I come to hacker news for.


A message from the Skype CEO [NSFW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E


That was great :)


"In fact, people have actually made spatial pattern generators that allow you to input the frequency profile that you want, and get the corresponding point pattern out. It’s really quite neat, and I highly recommend reading this paper so you can see some other possible noise parameters, like anisotropy."

I had to hunt this 'custom colour' noise paper out since that link was dead. It is quite neat. Here it is on ACM in case anyone else is interested:

Point Sampling with General Noise Spectrum (2012) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2185520.2185572


Non-paywalled version on one of the authors' site:

https://www.liyiwei.org/papers/noise-sig12/


Hmmm... this is trash. All images are called 'downloaded_image.jpeg' which is hilarious.

Who created the image? When? Where? How can I find more from the same book, or by the same artist?

Cultural amnesia is one thing, but annihilating the credits and context deliberately is very bad indeed.

Pinterest does this evil trick, and Cosmos bills itself as 'Pinterest for creatives' = pure internet cancer.


https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/

Great resource, terrible site.

Why can't any serious museum create a good, simple image gallery? Low resolution, missing images, curatorial cruft, bad UI, dead ends.

Just show me the work. It shouldn't be so hard to use.


Why can't any serious museum create a good, simple image gallery?

I like this one: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection?q=&Artist=Vincent...


In order for that not to happen (uninterpretable ML models) some research on symbolic distillation, aka symbolic regression

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11287

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay2631


As Gorard has long been at pains to point out (and Wolfram, being preternaturally immodest, has not) the model is a formalism, not a theory.

That said, the point of redescribing things we know very well - like QM and GR - in new ways is ultimately to make testable predictions. So:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtxXkugd5w


IANAM but I guess the name for mining OEIS or generating scads of data iteratively for analysis would be empirical mathematics.

It's empirical metamathematics if you attempt this with networks of axioms/theories

https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/empirical-met...

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/09/the-empirical-me...


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