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You refused to verify your identity by simply changing the TikTok comment? You are asking for money in advance before you verify your identity? You are a scammer.

Well, on that note after reading your nonsensical excuse to not verify your real identity, it is clear you are not whom you claim to be and you are simply tainting the name of someone you have a grudge against. You went through all this charade just for the sake of taking every opportunity in every post you made, just to ensure you posted his name thus tried to associate him with the utter nonsense you continue to post.

I have added you to my ignore list and have also left appropriate negative trust for impersonating someone from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics from a University.

Have you tried to contact the "real" Joseph Van Name?

Have you tried to contact the "real" Joseph Van Name?

Just to be sure, if he gets banned, what's the assurance that he won't create another account and continue what he's doing here? Asides from him acting like the universe stole his birthright, I've really not had any other issues with him. For me, he's just like a grumpy entertainer who's actually good at what he does and I quite agree with @Vod's suggestion to handle the matter.

Well he also is the only person to give me a negative trust.

This "jvanname (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1043276)" account pretends to be the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He is asking for money before he is willing to verify his identity.

Please ban this account either for soliciting for money under the guise of hijacking the name of a reputable member of society (the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida) or for flooding the Reputation board with utter nonsense that should not be allowed to remain.

We are after all hoping to have a forum free from spam.

When a user is banned, what is the trust they give?
Are they removed from users who received them, or does it stay there forever?

as far as I know, the tag stays just like the posts the account made before being banned.

This is a bit unfair, continuing with the tag after the account has been banned.
If an account has been banned, the match is no longer trustworthy/credible. So why continue with the tags he left?

Admin/Mods: Please ban "jvanname"

Have you tried to contact the "real" Joseph Van Name?

This would be the best step.   Send the reply to Mr. T. for a quick ban.

Well he also is the only person to give me a negative trust.

his reason is I am stupid.

This is a bit unfair, continuing with the tag after the account has been banned.
If an account has been banned, the match is no longer trustworthy/credible. So why continue with the tags he left?

Well he also is the only person to give me a negative trust.

his reason is I am stupid.

Thanks for raising this question. This user offens everyone who don't agree with him and then pretends that he is victim. I think he have some mental problems, but it's not an excuse. Such things can't be tolerated. But I'm not sure what can be done. Banning him would be an option, but I'm not sure about it. During my time here I saw worse and more annoying trolls, but I don't think that they got banned. I doubt that he earned to be permabanned, but he deserves at least temporrary ban to cooldown.

You've been here for more than 11 years, you're one of the most active forum members and only now you got your first enemy? What I can say - impreesive.

I second the motion. Having a retard like that who keeps opening stupid threads while boasting about his supposed superiority because of his supposed PhD does not bring anything good to the forum.

The account has been deliberately provocative for far too long and not only that, he is a troll who quite clearly has given up on trying to utilise the account via a signature campaign and has resorted to making a nuisance of himself because he has far too much free time on hand.

On top of that, he is misusing the name of someone who does not even know his name is being used in such a manner to create the fiasco in the first place.

~snip~

Why should he be banned? he just has different thoughts than most of the other members. I think everyone has their own thoughts and we have to respect them even though I also don't agree with what he wrote because maybe he is a narcissist.

All of you fuckers are fucking stupid and worthless pieces of shit who deserve to suffer and die in the next pandemic.

That just convinces me that people like you deserve to @#$%ing die in the next pandemic.

And when people f@#$ing die from the next pandemic, they will f@#$ing deserve it. They will all go to HELL when they die. And they will f@#$ing deserve that too.

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Until universities apologize, they deserve the violence because they are evil. Nobody should shed any tears for the f***ers who were shot and killed at Michigan State University until universities acknowledge that promoting violence against me is very bad. Because those tears are extremely offensive. There should not be a single flower at their funerals because universities promote violence and are incredibly evil.

So 3 people in 11 years and 40,000 plus posts is pretty good record.

I had a perfect record on ebay till someone gave me a neutral .  that was from 2003 to 2022 and over 2000 buys and sells.

I work at it, but you can't please all the people all the time.

Evading ban isn't allowed on this forum. So if that happens, he might feel frustrated seeing his alt account got banned or nuked (where all of his thread/post also deleted). And it seems he always include name and degree title on end of the post.

Well whatever the mods and theymos wants, but honestly I feel empathy and sorrow for him as he is an obviously very unhappy person.

so I know crazy when I am faced with it.
 I usually do not bother trying to fix it. I tend to let it be.

Here are a few specific examples:

That's why he got a temporary ban for those remarks. If you still come across such statements in the same spirit from this user, you can send reports. At least in the sections where I am a moderator.

Can you please clarify, is the "jvanname" account currently banned?

Well, you should be thankful you are not me, deserving 1 tag per week. 😒 now imagine how ph.D would feel, no friends, a totally dead coin that nobody buys or mines, posts getting deleted, everyone attacking him, having the delusion of being a math ph.D, and on top of that getting banned. I kind of feel his pain.

No, jvanname's account is not currently banned. His temporary ban has long since expired and, as far as I know, this account has not received any more bans. At least, not yet. That's why I ask, if anyone notices his posts with specific calls for violence, to report it.

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I have personally intarected with this user and must agree his ideas and ways of thinking are pretty much irrational, though I am not sure yet whether we are dealing with an over-exaggeraged troll or a very mentally sick individual, he is probably the former but I cannot really tell.
He has his own thread in the Reputation section where he alledges I attack him because I am evil and a Nazi (or something among those lines).

Either way, I do not believe someone is supposed to be banned from this forum based only on the things they write, it would take us to be sure he is actually trolling or he personally threating with physical violence against a forum member for the Administration to have a valid reason to issue a permanent ban, in my opinion. In the mean time, I guess it will be enough for him to stop posting here as often as usual if enough people ignore him.

In the case we are dealing with a mentally ill person, it baffles me he is yet to be given the mental attention he needs, perhaps it would have something to do with the fact he seems to be from the USA?

If impersonating a person is not sufficient reason for a ban then his threatening conduct will hopefully get him banned again.

According to the staff (here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5479269.msg63425987#msg63425987) and here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5479269.msg63414366#msg63414366)) the "jvanname" account had already received a temporary ban and the reason given was threatening behaviour.

If moderators believe his conduct was sufficient enough to deserve a ban than I would not debate that point of view. He does not seem to be of the character that will go away if he is ignored, it seems he is going out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible and I think one of the motivations is because he is not the person he claims to be and is deliberately misusing the name for reasons not yet known.

If impersonating a person is not sufficient reason for a ban then his threatening conduct will hopefully get him banned again.

The moderators and administrators of the forum will not be in the business of finding out who owns the account. You understand that. Therefore, in order for global moderators or administrators to take any action, you need solid evidence from a third party that the user is using someone else's name.

He probably will come back again and continue to misbehave as usual, whichs makes me wonder who many temporary bans will get issued against him before he is permanently kicked out.

I have personally intarected with this user and must agree his ideas and ways of thinking are pretty much irrational, though I am not sure yet whether we are dealing with an over-exaggeraged troll or a very mentally sick individual, he is probably the former but I cannot really tell.
He has his own thread in the Reputation section where he alledges I attack him because I am evil and a Nazi (or something among those lines).

Either way, I do not believe someone is supposed to be banned from this forum based only on the things they write, it would take us to be sure he is actually trolling or he personally threating with physical violence against a forum member for the Administration to have a valid reason to issue a permanent ban, in my opinion. In the mean time, I guess it will be enough for him to stop posting here as often as usual if enough people ignore him.

In the case we are dealing with a mentally ill person, it baffles me he is yet to be given the mental attention he needs, perhaps it would have something to do with the fact he seems to be from the USA?

Now wait I minute. When I got sick in 1982 I had more than 20 years of treatment which amazingly worked. Took antipsychotic meds from 1982 to 2006. Went to various shrinks and psychologists for 40
years. My last psychologist retired in 2022. I went to her for 29 years.

I say this cause I am USA based. You can get the care if you want to. But from the sick people I have seen at least 60% just try to gaslight everyone and live on the river ( denial is the river).

BTW I figure 20% of the USA people need real help so they can get off that barge floating on that river.

But only 2 or 3 % actually try like I did.

The moderators and administrators of the forum will not be in the business of finding out who owns the account. You understand that. Therefore, in order for global moderators or administrators to take any action, you need solid evidence from a third party that the user is using someone else's name.

I'm not sure if he is who he claims to be, likely not IMO. The guy seems to need some serious professional help though. I also think a guy who supposedly has a PhD would take the time to read the forum and learn how the place works. Maybe learn how to use the trust system if he is going to partake in using it. Banning him is useless IMO as it's just as easy to ignore him.

I see. It is just that one of the stereotypes or ideas many foreigners around the planet have about the United States is that people many times cannot afford to get healthcare of any kind. I have personally talked to a friend of mine from Oklahoma who once suffered a mental breakdown and was isolated in a "crisis center" with other people and he was kind of forced to interact with others until he was deemed to be stable enough to be released. Basically, he was planning to take his own life.
I have also read medicine and drugs in your country cannot be afforded by many people and the cost of them are out of proportion in comparison to other countries which are supposed to be as well within the first world category. So I assumed that perhaps our friend Dr Joseph was someone who is not able to afford some psychological evaluations and drugs, so comes here to cope with whatever he must be feeling. If that is the case, I pity him rather to feel anger and annoyance because of his behavior here in the forum.

Anyways, we may be getting a lil bit out of the topic of this thread. I am personally glad you have managed to improve your health through those long years, mental health is not supposed ignored, being healthy in that sense is priceless.

That's why he got a temporary ban for those remarks. If you still come across such statements in the same spirit from this user, you can send reports. At least in the sections where I am a moderator.

Please check this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478320.msg63373409#msg63373409




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This "jvanname (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1043276)" account pretends to be the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He is asking for money before he is willing to verify his identity.

Please ban this account either for soliciting for money under the guise of hijacking the name of a reputable member of society (the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida) or for flooding the Reputation board with utter nonsense that should not be allowed to remain.

We are after all hoping to have a forum free from spam.

I second the motion. Having a retard like that who keeps opening stupid threads while boasting about his supposed superiority because of his supposed PhD does not bring anything good to the forum.

Initially, I felt @JG was asking for a ban for @jvanname simply because he was just obnoxious and he seemed to treat everyone here as serfs beneath him but after going through what was said I feel he deserves to be banned. Who would ask for a fee to reveal their identity these days though? I guess the PhD degree is really getting into him or probably some screws are getting loose for him to feel the world revolves around his little bald head( assuming he's bald ;D)!
 Just to be sure, if he gets banned, what's the assurance that he won't create another account and continue what he's doing here? Asides from him acting like the universe stole his birthright, I've really not had any other issues with him. For me, he's just like a grumpy entertainer who's actually good at what he does and I quite agree with @Vod's suggestion to handle the matter.

As Vod has stated, if you suspect someone is impersonating a public figure, the first thing you do is go out and prove that he is not who he claims to be. You are the accuser, and the accused has nothing to prove. The conclusion that he is an impostor because he did not modify a comment on one of his TikTok videos does not hold water.

When did theymos start banning people for impersonation? Isn't that the purpose of the DT system? If you have credible evidence that he is not who he claims to be, the best course of action is to tag, ignore, and move on.

The moderators and administrators of the forum will not be in the business of finding out who owns the account. You understand that. Therefore, in order for global moderators or administrators to take any action, you need solid evidence from a third party that the user is using someone else's name.

Maybe he does not need help, he could simply be a troll and someone who is deliberately behaving the way he does because he used a particular name in every post he makes as though to ensure the name is not forgotten. If he has been banned once but wants to continue to misuse the name of someone else, he will surely take measures to ensure he does not get banned again yet he will continue to try to misuse the name he uses.

He is my second enemy and I have a frenemy.

So 3 people in 11 years and 40,000 plus posts is pretty good record.


I had a perfect record on ebay till someone gave me a neutral .  that was from 2003 to 2022 and over 2000 buys and sells.

I work at it, but you can't please all the people all the time.

I've steered clear from interacting with this user as its pretty apparent they're a psycho troll and there's nothing that can be gained from such interaction. However, I do believe this person has always had this account and is behind their failed coin.

What our friend fails to grasp is that crypto projects are largely community-driven efforts. If there is no good leadership or sense of community, nobody will want to be part of the project, and thus it is doomed to fail. This rule still exists for coins with an overwhelming degree of technical merit.

While our friend may be mathematically brilliant, he is obviously hobbled by a complete lack of social skills and a profound stubbornness that inhibits his project's success. Unable to make this realization, he has chosen violence, blaming what appears to be the entire world for his self-induced failure.

He's far from being the only broken soul wandering the forum, however, and until he makes specific threats, banning him would go against the standard by which similar trolls are treated.

I'm not sure if he is who he claims to be, likely not IMO. The guy seems to need some serious professional help though. I also think a guy who supposedly has a PhD would take the time to read the forum and learn how the place works. Maybe learn how to use the trust system if he is going to partake in using it. Banning him is useless IMO as it's just as easy to ignore him.

Well, you should be thankful you are not me, deserving 1 tag per week. 😒 now imagine how ph.D would feel, no friends, a totally dead coin that nobody buys or mines, posts getting deleted, everyone attacking him, having the delusion of being a math ph.D, and on top of that getting banned. I kind of feel his pain.

The only failures here are the stupid losers like you who are too f@#$ing stupid to realize that I am using cryptocurrency technologies not only to solve the most important scientific problem, but I am the only one who is using such technologies to prevent the next pandemic. It is really sad that I cannot build a community out of a desire to prevent the next pandemic. Yes. People are that bloodthirsty that they would rather see the next pandemic than think and actually do something about it. How sad!

You could be totally right. Every claim you're making could turn out to be true. However, nobody will want to work with you given your extremely poor attitude and borderline psychotic behavior. Its completely unprofessional and uncompelling. Therefore, you have doomed yourself and the future of your project. For as smart as you claim to be, its a pity you haven't yet figured this out.

It's clear to me: this guy brings something positive to the forum? No. Does he bring anything negative? A lot of things, insults, disqualifications, a lot of distorting threads, etc. Leaving aside whether he's mentally ill or not, the forum will be much better off without him than with him, so I support the ban.

@jvanname, here is the reason why I think you are an idiot:
If the next pandemic is a man made disease and is going to be deliberately released to the population, no matter what you do, they will release it one way or the other. So if you want to stick to your behaviour by calling everyone what you are calling now, be ready to get banned.

However, I do believe you have a ph.D, it's just that, SO WHAT? Do we need to bend the knee for you? You little weasel, nobody respects you here, just like nobody respects me here, at least I am able to admit that, but you are too stupid to even realize that. 😂

It's clear to me: this guy brings something positive to the forum? No. Does he bring anything negative? A lot of things, insults, disqualifications, a lot of distorting threads, etc. Leaving aside whether he's mentally ill or not, the forum will be much better off without him than with him, so I support the ban.

Here are some ways to design AI so that it is inherently safer and more predictable and interpretable.

0. Do not trust anything that a for-profit corporation (or even a non-profit) says about AI. They only want profit, so everything that they say about safety is carefully curated not to maximize safety but instead to maximize their own personal profit.

If we are going to keep on using the same kind of AI models that we have now, we need to design them to be more interpretable.

1. Language models have these things called word embeddings. The problem with our current word embeddings is that we are currently representing tokens as vectors instead of matrices. We need to instead use matrix-valued word embeddings where every token is represented as a matrix instead of just a vector. Why should we do this? Vectors are good at encoding a single meaning of a single token. But in natural language processing, tokens tend to have several meanings. With matrices, we can let every row (or column) represent a distinct meaning of the token. There are other ways of doing this too. For example, the token in a particular context can be represented as rank-1 positive semidefinite matrices, while the token in general can be represented as a positive semidefinite matrix of higher rank. This is analogous to how in quantum information theory, pure states are rank-1 positive semidefinite matrices with trace 1 (which are just unit vectors modulo a scalar on the unit circle) while mixed states are positive semidefinite matrices with trace 1. Matrix-valued word embeddings will neatly encode all of the data in language models so that it is more interpretable. Of course, after this, the language model needs to figure out how to take the matrix-valued word embeddings and work with them as matrices. That is not a problem. One can just make the weight matrices into Kronecker products or Kronecker sums so that they work nicely with matrices. Of course, after several layers, the transformer may want to discard all of the inappropriate and inapplicable contexts of the token, so the transformer may want to turn the matrices into vectors.

We need to get rid of neural networks. Neural networks are opague. They are inherently uninterpretable. We need to design systems that are inherently more interpretable than neural networks.

aleph_0. Machine learning systems should still be trained using gradient ascent/descent, but the fitness/loss functions should be designed so that there is typically just one local optimum or few local optima. If there is just one local optimum, then that local optimum is free from any random information and it is unlikely to contain any pseudorandom information either. It is also likely to be much more mathematical than fitness/loss functions with many local optima. But this means that we need to get rid of neural networks because neural networks are unlikely to have this nice and other nice mathematical properties.

Inaccessible. Machine learning systems should use functions of several complex variables or perhaps several quaternionic variables instead of just the real numbers. With that being said, fitness functions need to be maximized, so they need to have a real output, so the machine learning systems should instead use plurisubharmonic functions. We all know that functions of a complex variable behave better than functions of a real variable, and functions of several complex variables behave much better than functions of several real variables. One benefit of plurisubharmonity/subharmonicity is that these functions satisfy maximum principles. This means that if we have a plurisubharmonic fitness function, then the local maxima will always be on the boundary. But this also means that for plurisubharmonic functions, there are fewer local maxima to think about. Why is this? If we restrict the function to the boundary, there will probably be more local maxima, but once we extend the function, those local maxima will no longer be local maxima since there will be a way to escape those local maxima. If we make the 'Shilov boundary' small (as is the case with the closed polydisc), then the plurisubharmonic functions will have a domain of real dimension 2n but a boundary of real dimension n, so there are n extra dimensions for the local maxima in the boundary to no longer be local maxima on the entire closed polydisc. Plurisubharmonicity will ensure not only that the fitness functions have fewer local optima, but also that they will behave much more mathematically.

Weakly compact. Instead of just using functions of several complex or quaternionic variables, it is even better to use matrix-valued functions as our new fitness functions. Plenty of functions in mathematics extend to matrix-valued functions. For example, we may apply any polynomial function to matrices. We may also apply any holomorphic function to matrices, and every real-valued continuous function may be applied to Hermitian matrices with no problem. Matrices are also endowed with several operator norms, so one can easily use these several matrix-valued functions to produce machine learning models. AI systems constructed using these matrix-valued functions will be more interpretable than your neural networks since they will behave more mathematically.

Measurable. The Hessian of your loss function at your local minimum should not have exceptionally small eigenvalues. The value min(lambda)/max(lambda) (which is the ratio of the smallest to the largest eigenvalues of the Hessian at the local minimum) should not be exceedingly small. An exceedingly small value of min(lambda)/max(lambda) means that your local minimum is only barely a local minimum and a local minimum by some accident. Furthermore, if min(lambda)/max(lambda) is small, then a small perturbation of your loss function will kill your local minimum, and we can't have that. The local minimum should be robust to this kind of noise, and the best way to guarantee robustness will be to have a highly non-singular Hessian at the local minimum.

Huge. We need to design systems that are naturally free from adversarial examples and especially uninterpretable adversarial examples. By naturally, I mean that we should not need to use adversarial training to get rid of these adversarial examples. By interpretable, the adversarial examples should look more like optical illusions. It is easy to explain why optical illusions confuse people, but we have no such explanation for adversarial examples in machine learning. We need to fix this by constructing AI without such adversarial examples, or at least where the adversarial examples are interpretable in the same way that optical illusions are interpretable.

Rank-into-Rank. The resulting AI model should be smooth. The loss function should be smooth. Similar inputs to the function should always result in similar outputs. This means that it is better to use an analytic function or at least infinitely differentiable that ReLU (but we need to make other changes for this approach to be sensible). I want to be able to take a Hessian at a local maximum. Those adversarial examples where we have two nearly identical images of cats and the neural network thinks one is a cat and the other is a sheep are not supposed to happen simply because the neural network should not exaggerate such small differences so much. Such non-smooth functions are also not quite as mathematical as smooth functions, so smooth functions should be more interpretable than non-smooth functions.

Rank+1-into-Rank+1-The AI models should be mathematical in the sense that it should be easy to prove mathematical theorems about them.  For example, the spectrum of the Laplacian of a graph can be used in machine learning, and there are many theorems about the spectra of matrices. On the other hand, if we are given a neural network for some task, one cannot prove anything about the particular local optimum that we have obtained nor can one prove mathematical theorems about the distribution of all possible local optima for one's fitness function. Sure. We have the universal approximation theorem that tells us that neural networks even with a single hidden layer can approximate anything if the hidden layer is wide enough. We can also approximate arbitrary continuous functions with polynomials. And in the complex case, Mergelyan's theorem allows us to uniformly approximate arbitrary continuous functions on an arbitrary compact subset of the complex plane with a polynomial function as long the original function is holomorphic on the interior. Unless you have a theorem that is about as good as Mergelyan's theorem for neural networks, I will consider them as objects that are not quite as mathematical as the objects that we find in areas such as complex analysis (1 or several complex variables), quantum information theory, or random matrix theory. Or maybe I simply do not know enough about the mathematical theorems of neural networks, and this is more of a knowledge and communication problem.

I personally like the more mathematical AI models. For example, if I want to obtain statistics about a data set, I want to use an statistical model that always converges to the same local optimum so that the process of obtaining those statistics itself does not add more noise to the data. At the moment, we currently do not have AI systems that can satisfy all of these requirements which is not good for actually understanding the inner workings of AI system and how they are processing data.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

How about this you stupid f@#$?


HOW IS THIS NOT SUBSTANTIAL? ANSWER ME B@#$%!


-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

LOLOLOLOL showing ancient glory

F@#$ YOU!

The people on this site are so dense that they cannot see how trashy they really are. The people on this site are truly the worst of the worst!

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

tlak to few people and than claim everyone is worst, so racist. no phd person think like thet

How about this you stupid f@#$?

jvanname, you have asked me to stop talking about your mental health in public because you have suggested it is rude. I am note here to make anyone feel uncomfortable, regardless of your erratic behavior and insults.
If you explicitly ask me to stop talking about your posible mental state becuase it offends you, depresses you or makes you feel anxiety, then I promise to do my best not to mention it in public again. However, I would like to be clear and let you know that would not stop me from pointing out other things about you which I personally believe have no place in this forum and if you intent to stay around your should improve.

That is a signal of peace/good intentions I can show for you if you explicitly ask me to and why. I take seriousky the discussions of mental health and how talking about it could even further erode your state. So let me know if it is something which actually affects you.

Also, since you are trying to offend us and call us names, what is even to point of censuring those insults you throw at us? Do you believe PhDs are not supposed to swear or does it have something to do with your experience at college?

I believe you are still on time not to get banned permanently of you showed some reasonable behavior, so let us have a conversation as the adults we both are, doctor.

Cheers.

Here are some ways to design AI so that it is inherently safer and more predictable and interpretable.

0. Do not trust anything that a for-profit corporation (or even a non-profit) says about AI. They only want profit, so everything that they say about safety is carefully curated not to maximize safety but instead to maximize their own personal profit.

If we are going to keep on using the same kind of AI models that we have now, we need to design them to be more interpretable.

1. Language models have these things called word embeddings. The problem with our current word embeddings is that we are currently representing tokens as vectors instead of matrices. We need to instead use matrix-valued word embeddings where every token is represented as a matrix instead of just a vector. Why should we do this? Vectors are good at encoding a single meaning of a single token. But in natural language processing, tokens tend to have several meanings. With matrices, we can let every row (or column) represent a distinct meaning of the token. There are other ways of doing this too. For example, the token in a particular context can be represented as rank-1 positive semidefinite matrices, while the token in general can be represented as a positive semidefinite matrix of higher rank. This is analogous to how in quantum information theory, pure states are rank-1 positive semidefinite matrices with trace 1 (which are just unit vectors modulo a scalar on the unit circle) while mixed states are positive semidefinite matrices with trace 1. Matrix-valued word embeddings will neatly encode all of the data in language models so that it is more interpretable. Of course, after this, the language model needs to figure out how to take the matrix-valued word embeddings and work with them as matrices. That is not a problem. One can just make the weight matrices into Kronecker products or Kronecker sums so that they work nicely with matrices. Of course, after several layers, the transformer may want to discard all of the inappropriate and inapplicable contexts of the token, so the transformer may want to turn the matrices into vectors.

We need to get rid of neural networks. Neural networks are opague. They are inherently uninterpretable. We need to design systems that are inherently more interpretable than neural networks.

aleph_0. Machine learning systems should still be trained using gradient ascent/descent, but the fitness/loss functions should be designed so that there is typically just one local optimum or few local optima. If there is just one local optimum, then that local optimum is free from any random information and it is unlikely to contain any pseudorandom information either. It is also likely to be much more mathematical than fitness/loss functions with many local optima. But this means that we need to get rid of neural networks because neural networks are unlikely to have this nice and other nice mathematical properties.

Inaccessible. Machine learning systems should use functions of several complex variables or perhaps several quaternionic variables instead of just the real numbers. With that being said, fitness functions need to be maximized, so they need to have a real output, so the machine learning systems should instead use plurisubharmonic functions. We all know that functions of a complex variable behave better than functions of a real variable, and functions of several complex variables behave much better than functions of several real variables. One benefit of plurisubharmonity/subharmonicity is that these functions satisfy maximum principles. This means that if we have a plurisubharmonic fitness function, then the local maxima will always be on the boundary. But this also means that for plurisubharmonic functions, there are fewer local maxima to think about. Why is this? If we restrict the function to the boundary, there will probably be more local maxima, but once we extend the function, those local maxima will no longer be local maxima since there will be a way to escape those local maxima. If we make the 'Shilov boundary' small (as is the case with the closed polydisc), then the plurisubharmonic functions will have a domain of real dimension 2n but a boundary of real dimension n, so there are n extra dimensions for the local maxima in the boundary to no longer be local maxima on the entire closed polydisc. Plurisubharmonicity will ensure not only that the fitness functions have fewer local optima, but also that they will behave much more mathematically.

Weakly compact. Instead of just using functions of several complex or quaternionic variables, it is even better to use matrix-valued functions as our new fitness functions. Plenty of functions in mathematics extend to matrix-valued functions. For example, we may apply any polynomial function to matrices. We may also apply any holomorphic function to matrices, and every real-valued continuous function may be applied to Hermitian matrices with no problem. Matrices are also endowed with several operator norms, so one can easily use these several matrix-valued functions to produce machine learning models. AI systems constructed using these matrix-valued functions will be more interpretable than your neural networks since they will behave more mathematically.

Measurable. The Hessian of your loss function at your local minimum should not have exceptionally small eigenvalues. The value min(lambda)/max(lambda) (which is the ratio of the smallest to the largest eigenvalues of the Hessian at the local minimum) should not be exceedingly small. An exceedingly small value of min(lambda)/max(lambda) means that your local minimum is only barely a local minimum and a local minimum by some accident. Furthermore, if min(lambda)/max(lambda) is small, then a small perturbation of your loss function will kill your local minimum, and we can't have that. The local minimum should be robust to this kind of noise, and the best way to guarantee robustness will be to have a highly non-singular Hessian at the local minimum.

Huge. We need to design systems that are naturally free from adversarial examples and especially uninterpretable adversarial examples. By naturally, I mean that we should not need to use adversarial training to get rid of these adversarial examples. By interpretable, the adversarial examples should look more like optical illusions. It is easy to explain why optical illusions confuse people, but we have no such explanation for adversarial examples in machine learning. We need to fix this by constructing AI without such adversarial examples, or at least where the adversarial examples are interpretable in the same way that optical illusions are interpretable.

Rank-into-Rank. The resulting AI model should be smooth. The loss function should be smooth. Similar inputs to the function should always result in similar outputs. This means that it is better to use an analytic function or at least infinitely differentiable that ReLU (but we need to make other changes for this approach to be sensible). I want to be able to take a Hessian at a local maximum. Those adversarial examples where we have two nearly identical images of cats and the neural network thinks one is a cat and the other is a sheep are not supposed to happen simply because the neural network should not exaggerate such small differences so much. Such non-smooth functions are also not quite as mathematical as smooth functions, so smooth functions should be more interpretable than non-smooth functions.

Rank+1-into-Rank+1-The AI models should be mathematical in the sense that it should be easy to prove mathematical theorems about them.  For example, the spectrum of the Laplacian of a graph can be used in machine learning, and there are many theorems about the spectra of matrices. On the other hand, if we are given a neural network for some task, one cannot prove anything about the particular local optimum that we have obtained nor can one prove mathematical theorems about the distribution of all possible local optima for one's fitness function. Sure. We have the universal approximation theorem that tells us that neural networks even with a single hidden layer can approximate anything if the hidden layer is wide enough. We can also approximate arbitrary continuous functions with polynomials. And in the complex case, Mergelyan's theorem allows us to uniformly approximate arbitrary continuous functions on an arbitrary compact subset of the complex plane with a polynomial function as long the original function is holomorphic on the interior. Unless you have a theorem that is about as good as Mergelyan's theorem for neural networks, I will consider them as objects that are not quite as mathematical as the objects that we find in areas such as complex analysis (1 or several complex variables), quantum information theory, or random matrix theory. Or maybe I simply do not know enough about the mathematical theorems of neural networks, and this is more of a knowledge and communication problem.

I personally like the more mathematical AI models. For example, if I want to obtain statistics about a data set, I want to use an statistical model that always converges to the same local optimum so that the process of obtaining those statistics itself does not add more noise to the data. At the moment, we currently do not have AI systems that can satisfy all of these requirements which is not good for actually understanding the inner workings of AI system and how they are processing data.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

I am an altcoin creator/mathematician (this post is not about any particular coin but about the technology underlying all cryptocurrency technologies), and as a mathematician, I have developed the notion of an LSRDR to evaluate the cryptographic security of small block ciphers, but I later discovered that LSRDRs and similar constructions can be used to evaluate the security of nearly any substitution-permutation network. For simplicity, in this post, let's assume that our matrices are matrices over the field of real numbers. LSRDRs and their generalizations when applied as a measure of security to cryptographic functions satisfy a number of desirable characteristics including the following:

1. The measure of security should apply to as many block ciphers as possible. LSRDRs are a general purpose tool that can apply to many substitution permutation networks.

2. The measure of security should incorporate as many parts of the block cipher as possible including the linear and non-linear layers. LSRDRs measure the security of both the linear and non-linear components, but I have not yet figured out how to get LSRDRs to evaluate the entire security of the key scheduling algorithm.

3. The measure of security should be precise in the sense that it gives a specific number of at least a probability distribution with low variance for the cryptographic function. If we train an LSRDR twice with the same data, then we will often get the exact same fitness level (up-to a negligible floating point error). In the case where we do get different fitness levels, the distribution of fitness levels will have low variance

4. The measure of security should be accurate in the sense that should assign secure functions a lower fitness level (the fitness level is the level of insecurity) while it should also assign insecure functions a higher fitness level. LSRDRs do this.

5. The gradient ascent process should converge to the local maximum quickly. This means that the local maximum should have a Hessian where the ratio of the largest non-zero eigenvalue to the smallest non-zero eigenvalue should not be absurdly high. LSRDRs often do this.

6. The measure of security should have a mathematical theory behind it. It should be possibly to prove theorems about the measure of security. LSRDRs fit this criterion.

7. The measure of security should be a machine learning algorithm that effectively learns weaknesses in the cryptographic function. LSRDRs do this. I have not found any ways to trick LSRDRs.

8. The measure of security should be interpretable, since the process of interpreting the results of the AI is a part of the cryptanalysis. LSRDRs of block ciphers are quite interpretable in my experience, and they are surely much more interpretable than neural networks.

Bonus: The measure security should have applications unrelated to cryptography. LSRDRs seem to enjoy AI safety characteristics that most AI systems do not enjoy, so this is good.

Suppose that A_1,...,A_r are n times n real matrices. Then an L_{2,d}-spectral radius dimensionality reduction of A_1,...,A_r is a collection of d by d matrices X_1,...,X_r where the following fitness level is locally maximized:
rho(kron(A_1,X_1)+...+kron(A_r,X_r))/rho(kron(X_1,X_1)+...+kron(X_r,X_r))^(1/2). Here, rho(A) stands for the spectral radius of the matrix A while kron(A,B) stands for the Kronecker product or tensor product of A with B.  If f_1,...,f_r is a collection of permutations, and \phi is the standard irreducible representation of the symmetric group, then the fitness level of an LSRDR of \phi(f_1),...,\phi(f_r) is a measure of the cryptographic insecurity of the permutations f_1,...,f_r.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

P.S. When one design's a cryptocurrency mining algorithm to advance science, one gets scientific advancement. But if you do not design a mining algorithm to advance science, all you get is a network of people with very low levels of intelligence.

You are so stupid that you don't understand that a forum is about interacting with others and not about giving master classes.

See a psychiatrist and get a prescription. It's obvious that you need it.

If you explicitly ask me to stop talking about your posible mental state becuase it offends you, depresses you or makes you feel anxiety, then I promise to do my best not to mention it in public again.

Instead of banning me, why don't we ban everyone here who is saying that I do not have a Ph.D.? They are harassers.

You are using the name of someone else without their consent. You are pretending to be someone else and even though that in itself might not constitute a ban, it certainly should increase the chances of being banned when the context of your posts include to inflame, troll and provoke members which signing the name of someone else as though they are doing it.

Even if it could be borderline acceptable as far as rules are concerned, it is not as far as a moral question is concerned therefore you deserve to be banned.

Also, since you are trying to offend us and call us names, what is even to point of censuring those insults you throw at us? Do you believe PhDs are not supposed to swear or does it have something to do with your experience at college?

I believe you are still on time not to get banned permanently of you showed some reasonable behavior, so let us have a conversation as the adults we both are, doctor.

He has every intention of wasting your time and will not engage in an adult conversation. The "jvanname" account has no intention of communicating with anybody in a cordial manner. His prime objective is obviously to use the account to tarnish/destroy the name of the staff member that works for the University of Florida and he does this by believing he has lied for such a length of time that he is believed without question.

Sorry. I cannot be cordial with chlurmcks like you until you change your behavior. Only then would I ever consider changing my manner of communication with you.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

You could be totally right. Every claim you're making could turn out to be true. However, nobody will want to work with you given your extremely poor attitude and borderline psychotic behavior. Its completely unprofessional and uncompelling. Therefore, you have doomed yourself and the future of your project. For as smart as you claim to be, its a pity you haven't yet figured this out.

LOLOLOL FRAUD cannt type chlrurmcks wth no typos

Absolutely!! I'd describe him; He's got extremely poor attitude, a little sense of humor, a terrible anger issues and above all, he's bipolar... Why would he claim to be some JVN when he knows too well that the forum ain't got some KYCs and for that reason, ain't nobody gives a fuck who you think you are?!

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with all the collective informations and incessant swearing and cursing of anyone that doesn't deem his interest, I think this dude's just another troll - prolly could be chasing clouts, unknown to y'all... He doesn't sound to me like someone that's got a PHD..

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

You are a chlurmck.

I am saddened to hear from another girl with rotten rancid breasts. I do not have anger issues because my anger is righteous. There are other forums where people don't question my identity because on those other forums, we have high level discussions full of intellectualism. Here, we have a whole bunch of chlurmcklets like you with exceptionally low levels of intelligence.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

If you want to have a decent conversation about anything, then you will need to get off this thread. I have made plenty of other threads that add plenty of value like this one.


or this one

Baby Jesus hates you.

So, if there are other forums where people are alledgely as intelligent as you as and here you think we all are stupid, mean or whatever. Why don't you stay on those forums instead spending your time in this one swearing and calling us names all the time?
Perhaps, it is because in those forums you are talking about you are not allowed to discuss cryptography or cryptocurrency or something like that?
If you were as intelligent as you claim to be, Doctor; you would have reached the conclusion there is no reason for you to be here, either because you are wasting your time talking to people you don't like or be because alledgely we are not intelligent enough to understand you.

Also, why would you even randomly attack women about their breasts? That is uncalled for and it could make anyone here to assume you hate women or you have some kind of phobia to them. What does other people appearance have to do with this thread or your attitude?

Sweet mother Mary and jangling Joseph, that is some of the most bloviated blah blah blah I've ever had the displeasure of crossing my eyes at.  I'm no P(iled)h(igher and)D(eeper) in mathematicobullcrapola, but from the looks of that mile-high concrete wall of text it could well have been AI-generated, and I would not doubt it in the least.

I've kept my mouth shut about this silly debate thus far and after this I will once again shut it, but if you think you're seriously making an impressive display of knowledge, you ain't my friend.  The community is telling you so, too.  

And guys, if you argue with a crazy person long enough it becomes hard for an outside observer to tell who the crazy person is.  Words of wisdom.

Is that a threat?  Are you protected by the admin to make such a threat?

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I've kept my mouth shut about this silly debate thus far and after this I will once again shut it, but if you think you're seriously making an impressive display of knowledge, you ain't my friend.  The community is telling you so, too. 

And guys, if you argue with a crazy person long enough it becomes hard for an outside observer to tell who the crazy person is.  Words of wisdom.

Go poop on yourself.

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

I do not have anything against women or their breasts except for stupid and hateful women. I hope I never accidentally drink the milk from the breasts of Sandra_hakeem or BitcoinGirl.Club because if I do, then I will immediately s#$t myself. But I also hate stupid and evil males even more.

Go poop on yourself.

Your month haven't fed you the breast milk? So sad!

Reminds me the 2 Girls and 1 Cup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Girls_1_Cup) LOL. Are you relative?

That is disgusting. You should try being less disgusting next time.

This is not your kindergarten head master.

This thread is 4 pages long and I haven't read any other posts, so my apologies if my question is a repetition. Has anyone contacted the real person that this user is allegedly impersonating and asked if this is them posting on Bitcointalk? I am pretty sure it's not, but just in case. If it's a known University professor, there is surely a way to contact him, and if he is interested, he will reply back. 

And regarding the ban, what forum rules is the person breaking by impersonating someone else? I am not aware of such rules, but I might be wrong. The admins aren't going to take action even if someone asks for money and scams other members. I don't agree with that, but that's what it is.

I have not contacted him but asked this fake "jvanname" account to change the profile text in the real TikTok account to prove it was under his control. He declined stating I had to make a payment first because he alleged his time was worth money. Considering all the time he spends in the forum, it seems strange he would ask for payment however what is not surprising is that he did not update the profile (because he cannot as he dos not access to it).

You are right, that is what it is but I asked for the ban because exceptions can be considered. After all, he is dragging the name of someone through mud by pretending to be him. If a member claims to be a lawyer or doctor or police officer or student, it is irrelevant.

Having said that, if someone claims to be a specific person while using a real name and then uses that real name in every post while deliberately being provocative and using profanities in an attempt to tarnish the reputation of that person, there should be a mechanism in place to report it. Furthermore, if the perpetrator asks for money in advance in order to prove he is whom he claims to be, that now means a financial aspect has been added.

Please check this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5478320.msg63373409#msg63373409




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This "jvanname (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1043276)" account pretends to be the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He is asking for money before he is willing to verify his identity.

Please ban this account either for soliciting for money under the guise of hijacking the name of a reputable member of society (the real Joseph Van Name Ph.D. from the University of Florida) or for flooding the Reputation board with utter nonsense that should not be allowed to remain.

We are after all hoping to have a forum free from spam.

Yes. JollyGood is a snitch, except that JollyGood only snitches on good people who have not done anything wrong. JollyGood loves spreading lies and rumors because it is evil.

Jvanname is a troll toxic to the entire community, a mental case that calls out that we should all suffer and die a horrible death.  Here's a quote: https://ninjastic.space/post/62933000

On what flimsy foundation of self-righteousness do you dare to label yourselves "good people"?  You claim your intellectual superiority, but your words speak volumes louder than your self-proclaimed titles:

Maybe replying directly to him gives him the fuel he needs to keep posting here.

In the years the fake "jvanname" has been posting here, he probably was never questioned as to whether he was even telling the truth about holding a  Ph.D or being the person he claims to be, until I raised it. He cannot keep up the charade forever therefore he is now resorting to petty insults rather than holding up the facade.

Maybe replying directly to him gives him the fuel he needs to keep posting here.

That's how most trolls operate. People get emotional and want to correct their mistakes and wrong claims, and then they draw you into an argument that turns personal and eventually has nothing to do with the topic that was originally discussed. I suggest putting the person on ignore, as I don't believe admins will take any action against them. Let jvanname keep up his obsessions with poop and move on. Eventually check up on them to see if their posts are breaking any actual rules and report them, hoping for the best.