The quickest solution in such a case would be a POW change that can put Russian miners at a significant disadvantage. Significant could be a factor of 10 or larger.
Also, any attempt to kill one decentralized value system would prove to be a wasteful process in the long run since the cost to create another such system is disproportionately smaller than the cost to attack/destroy them.
This only works though if the pretraining and your training, both are with the data in the same domain. Even in that you will have issues if the data was from same domain but different in representation, e.g. 2D and 3D image datasets.
This only works though if the pretraining and your training, both are with the data in the same domain. Even in that you will have issues if the data was from same domain but different in representation, e.g. 2D and 3D image datasets.
> Bitcoin is by far the most decentralized, most secure
Both of these are highly contentious if not outright wrong.
Bitcoin's network is the most centralized at the moment. Bitmain is a great example of that. As for security, Ethereum is currently spending more $$ per block than Bitcoin to secure the chain.
The article mentions deep learning as being one of the technologies that is being utilized here. I find it difficult to put all the pieces together on the efficacy of the system and the technologies being used as Deep learning is one of the most un-explanatory technology. That in turn raises some questions over the effectiveness of a system that predicts social and financial unrest. How did you do that?
If you want to train yes. AFAIK, they are releasing a pre-trained model which you can just use right away. There is no sense in "topology" of this yahoo specific model as it is a caffenet.
What you are saying is true to a large extent. What is also true is that a significant percentage of westerners continuously look for the next big shocking thing out of India to "enrich" their experience of life. That is also quite exploitative of the unfortunate people who are the subject of all this drama. There is this thing called "poverty tourism" in Europe. One of my acquaintances in Western Europe didn't think that it was worth visiting India cause he has seen it all in China. At that point I had no idea of what to make of that.
This bit is almost certainly made up somewhere in the information chain of this article.
I grew up in an Indian village, not so well off. So were most of my relatives in the neighboring villages. I never witnessed or heard of such a thing.
In some places (covering around 5-10% population of India) there is a tradition of washing the feet of your elders on some ceremonial occasions but that water is never consumed. It mostly goes to some sacred tree or as an offering to some local deity, meaning that it is thrown around the deity in symbolism.