@karna It's a physical package of some sort. You don't send physical packages to people who you haven't *already* made substantial contact with. This was in 2002, Ted Kaczynski was still fresh in people's minds and people would've thought it was a fucking pipe bomb.
Siskind still has tenure at Purdue, and there's a substantial Computer Vision group there; most of the group is led by Charles Bouman (the father of the now-famous Katie Bouman, who is responsible for taking pictures of black holes). If you interacted with students who came from there before the Epstein files dropped, they would openly say that Siskind was around the lab, and he collaborated with Bouman quite a bit.
It is reasonable to assert that Epstein and his assets had control over the Computer Vision lab at Purdue, and determined which students could and could not graduate. This alone is not particularly surprising - although it paints a significant picture of a very shitty academia, it is not overtly dangerous in and of itself, and there's probably hundreds of examples of this.
What *is* dangerous is that a very large number of the people who graduated from this program now work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is very famous for "having the nuke shit." Epstein had at least some degree of control over what scientists got access to nuclear facilities in the US, and *that* is a very dangerous thing.
@nigger@Ghislaine Sure, the conditional within the branch can be reduced to being logically equivalent by using a different instruction (in modern architectures) but it still reduces to "are you jumping to the line specified in the code or not," and you do usually jump to the line.
So, it hits the branch: i = 1: jump up i = 2: jump up i = 3: jump up i = 4: jump up i = 5: don't jump
Which is 80% of the time. It turns out that most code is written kinda like this; you're just usually in a loop of some kind that's incrementing, so you're usually just making the jump.
@nigger@Ghislaine Essentially the difference between the two is "did I jump to the next line in my code or did I jump somewhere else?" They're meaningfully different from an engineering perspective. Even if you *could* in theory write the code so that it's logically equivalent, anyone who actually does this should have their heads blown off because the code is disgusting.
When you execute instructions on a modern CPU it goes through this thing called a "pipeline." Essentially instead of executing one instruction at once, it executes part of 5-20 instructions at once. When one of those instructions is a conditional branch, this has the impact of potentially flushing out the entire pipeline because a lot of those partially executed instructions are invalid, which slows the computer down!
Branch prediction allows you to mitigate the impact of that - if you know how you're going to branch, you can pick the right set of instructions to feed through the pipeline most of the time, which is good enough for a substantial performance improvement. You don't need it to be perfect, you just need it to be cheap and better than nothing.
@PopulistRight@chainsaw_appreciator The rotisserie chickens are $5 and are cooked. They're usually about 2 pounds. The same amount of uncooked chicken breast is $6, and you have to heat up an oven to cook it, expending energy and time.
The rotisserie chicken is the cheapest possible meat you can get at the supermarket. In order to get cheaper you have to get offal from illegal Asian markets which make their profits by not paying taxes.
If you're talking with someone it's very easy to sidestep Trump. It may work if you're not part of the conversation, but it should fail pretty rapidly the moment you walk into the room.
There's loads of academics who are in there - you can point to a few of them and it does not take very much to find a connection to nuclear labs. If you're not interested in that, then there's media personalities, writers, fashion designers, so on and so forth. There is something in there for *everyone* to get mad about.
Weirdly, I don't think everyone should be mad at the same people here. This net is wide enough that everyone can go mobilize a tiny mob against significantly smaller names in the Epstein files, because there's a lot of them! Go find a professor at your state university who had his hand in this pie, or some local businessman, or something. They're all easier targets who are entirely valid, you don't have to take a shot at the king in order to be good and effective.
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