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0FA: your password, but it's just "password"
0.5FA: your password, but you can reset it via SMS
1FA: your password
1.5FA: your password SMS code
2FA: your password code from OTP app/device
3FA: password OTP biometric reading
4FA: add halo reading
Postdoc opening in Bongard Lab at @uvmvermont on AI-driven design of soft #robots.
Flexible start time. Competitive salary. Most vaxxed and most beautiful state in the nation. Email jbongard@uvm.edu.
Part of a funded @NSF project with @TheFaboratory at @Yale.
Please join us!
This age's biggest technology flub. When the flubber fails to meet the road fortunes will be unmade, jobs will lost, and investors will be hopping mad. Wishing for something to be true, even for a long time, doesn't make it so. arstechnica.com/cars/2021/04…
„The EU has proved capable of regulating businesses, but incapable of helping to build them. It should start by paying future-proof industries more attention.“ Couldn‘t agree more. economist.com/europe/2021/01…
An entertaining article by Virginia Heffernan (@page88) featuring superstar roboticist @rodneyabrooks, one of my personal heroes. The article appeared in the October issue of @WIRED. I had somehow missed it.
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Switzerland wants to be a leader in "ethical standards for the use of #AI. [really? Didn't know] However, so far it has been unable to agree with other countries on the design of even simple apps" e.g. the coronavirus tracing app #SwissCovid (surprise 🙈) swissinfo.ch/eng/machines-an…
Where can I buy eartips for last-gen Powerbeats Pro? They are not sold in Apple stores and Apple support here in Switzerland has been useless so far. @AppleSupport#customercare#abysmal
Very cool statement by one of my favorite ethicists: "The true value of AI does not lie in outsmarting or re-configuring humankind. The true value of AI lies in increasing our understanding of real-world problems whose complexity overwhelms the human mind." @DorotheaBaur
"robotics and #AI have the potential to supercharge #healthcare delivery in the 21st century... #robots do not cough, sneeze, or actively spread pathogens". Good point, @cybermax. Let's use them where it's too dangerous for humans and no empathy is needed. diplomaticourier.com/posts/s…
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"Konkret würden Veranstalter einen QR-Code herausgeben, der von möglichst allen Besuchern gescannt wird."
Eine QR-Code Lösung hatten wir schon im März, aber sind von der "Task-Force" prompt ignoriert worden.
@marcelsalathe @C_Althaus @zdavatz@skepteis
WATCH: The last time a one term President lost
George H. W. Bush conceding to Bill Clinton “we respect the majesty of the democratic system... and America must always come first and we will get behind this new president and wish him well.”
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Giving credit where credit's due,Wall Street Journal's "paths to victory tool I think is far better than the assigning probabilities approach as it gives people a qualitative sense of how close a race is without making them overly confidant in any outcome
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