Omer Lev
Omer Lev
@omerlev.bsky.social
He most certainly did not check his list twice. It’s doubtful if it was even once ;-)
December 15, 2024 at 2:34 PM
They often fail to realize that it's limited against nihilistic enemies that don't care (e.g., will be hard to establish deterrence against Syrian militias), while rarely analyzing what Israel is deterred from.

2/2
December 9, 2024 at 3:21 PM
3 actual examples here:
1. Modi using machine translation of his speeches.
2. "AI Avatars" in South Korea (not mentioned: they used canned answers & are now illegal)
3. An electorate of 91 voters supposedly influenced by AI (not mentioned: candidate made multiple Zoom calls to the "electorate" too)
December 3, 2024 at 12:38 PM
I don't get the logic of this!
If I have a "Preliminaries" section which, say, talks about the whole model, but I have a large statistical part, and I want to delineate it as "the probability distributions we will use", why NOT put it in a separate section within the preliminaries?
December 2, 2024 at 6:13 PM
(also, a reviewer has very quaint stylistic preferences, believing it is not possible to have a sub-section 4.1 if you do not have 4.2 too; which is not a comment I have ever encountered)
December 2, 2024 at 9:44 AM
(generally, Levy's books are a tremendous time capsule of the development of mass computing)
November 18, 2024 at 6:08 AM
Had the book been written slightly later (post 9/11), the blasé approach to national security warnings and the slight glibness and delight in defeating those worried about them, would have been impossible to comprehend. A different world, almost.
November 18, 2024 at 6:07 AM