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Publications
General audience texts Besides the scholarly publications listed below, I have written many texts in English and German. My more notable German texts appeared by DNIP.ch. I also maintain document collections intended for a broad audience: Scholarly publications Up-to-date citation counts (provided by Google Scholar). List of patents granted.
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Publikationen
Aktuelle Zitatinformationen meiner Publikationen (bereitgestellt durch Google Scholar). Falls Sie sich nur für die wenigen Publikationen auf Deutsch interessieren, finden Sie diese hier im kompakten Ãœberblick und die Liste der gewährten Patente. Weitere Informationen über mich finden Sie auf https://marcel-waldvogel.ch
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How does ChatGPT work, actually?
ChatGPT is arguably the most powerful artificial intelligence language model currently available. We take a behind-the-scenes look at how the “large language model” GPT-3 and ChatGPT, which is based on it, work.
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Counting like a computer
Computers are very good at counting. But usually only within narrow limits. Here is an insight into where these limits come from and what goes wrong when they are exceeded.
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DEFCON Voting Village 23 Panel
There was a DEFCON Voting Village panel «If I can shop online, why can’t I vote online?» which I found extremely important to read or listen to. Not just for me, in fact, for anyone talking about electronic voting. Here is a transcript for those who prefer reading (or searching for keywords).
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NFTs are unethical
As an avid reader, you know my arguments that neither NFT nor smart contracts live up to their promises, and that the blockchain underneath is also more fragile and has a worse cost-benefit ratio than most believe. Similarly, I also claim the same for the metaverses built on top of them all. And that the…
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DANE: The CA game changer
Securing the Internet is important. However, many design decisions are broken: For example, encrypted web pages are considered less secure than unencrypted pages, even outright dangerous, unless you regularly pay a lot of money to certificate authorities, which have shown to make the Internet less secure. The new kid on the block, DANE (DNS-based Authentication…
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Web3 for data preservation? (Or is it just another expensive P2P?)
Drew Austin raises an important question in Wired: How should we deal with our accumulated personal data? How can we get from randomly hoarding to selection and preservation? And why does his proposed solution of Web3 not work out? A few analytical thoughts.