Moodles

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by Moodles 5y ago
He's referring to the fact that with ECDSA signatures, if the randomness is bad on a single signature (i.e. you know the "k" value in the signature) then that is sufficient to reveal the private key used in making the signatu
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by Moodles 5y ago
Here’s a video of Craig Wright being called out by an actual expert and it’s hilarious https://youtu.be/0thnCDgRJfM . He clearly has no clue how ECDSA signatures work.
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by Moodles 5y ago
> So that generally means that governments need to step in, and help the people and companies to do the right thing. That sounds pretty ominous. What policy would you suggest? Why would you be confident the government would be at all com
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by Moodles 5y ago
Does anyone know of a programming or even dare I say, leetcode, equivalent blog post?
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by Moodles 5y ago
People did something similar to this at my previous job and I always thought it was security theatre. For one thing, there are card swipe in. Second, engineering was upstairs in a restricted area. So you're concerned about a tailgater
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by Moodles 5y ago
What? Ok? This was a pointless circular tangent then? "We want the best talent." "No we don't. We want the to remove bias." "Isn't talent more important?" "Removing bias is finding the best talen
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by Moodles 5y ago
But I want to bias towards attracting talent?
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by Moodles 5y ago
That honestly sounds like an awful strategy to attract talent. Surely you believe there’s a correlation between going to the best schools and toughest companies and being somewhat productive? To ignore all those sígnals to avoid some bias i
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by Moodles 5y ago
I suppose everyone’s journey is unique. It’s just good to find your passion even if it is “pointless”, because everything is “pointless”.
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by Moodles 5y ago
I recently somehow fell into a YouTube rabbit hole where this guy was speedrunning Spyro on PS1. It’s a game I used to play as a kid about a purple dragon. Spyro collects gems and kills enemies. It’s pretty fun. I thought it was incredibly
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by Moodles 5y ago
Right, but China is a particular severe problem.
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by Moodles 5y ago
It is an interesting question on how to deprogram the pro-communist party populous. All the brainwashed types I’ve ever spoken to believe the most insane things despite otherwise being intelligent people. E.g. Covid was made by the US to fr
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by Moodles 5y ago
Ok. So to ask the original question again: are there any transferable hard skills in MBAs?
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by Moodles 5y ago
Even easier since the test itself is multiple choice.
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by Moodles 5y ago
Funny you should say that, because my PhD is in cryptography and the exact field I find myself in today is security.
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by Moodles 5y ago
The red/blue urn question in the article isn't super duper hard right? It's at a level where it's a very hard question (but still doable) for a 16 year old high schooler I think? b = number of blue balls in second urn. P
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by Moodles 5y ago
My experience too (in a completely different field to finance).
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by Moodles 5y ago
I'm not arguing for hard skills over soft skills. I'm asking if MBAs actually provide transferrable hard skills.
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by Moodles 5y ago
Right. But are there are "hard" skills from an MBA that transfer? Not to offend, but MBAs just seem like networking and drinking degrees to me, for people that love business. I've seen MBAs syllabuses: I've literally see
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by Moodles 5y ago
Having obtained a PhD myself, I would say its definitely helped in my career, though that is largely because my industry work is related to my PhD; people tend to assume I'm an expert in this super complicated thing and they just need
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by Moodles 5y ago
I often think, and find it amusing, that as adults we think we've grown out of many childish tendencies, but collectively we haven't. Our interactions are just a bit more complex, but fundamentally the same. In this case, it'
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by Moodles 5y ago
So close. One day we will think of a use for blockchain besides cryptocurrency. Or not.
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by Moodles 5y ago
I think it's funny that it's kind of like a blockchain, and as soon as the business people and MBAs realize this, they're going to "evangelize this amazing application of blockchain to all code!" to death.
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by Moodles 5y ago
Sorry about the spoiler :(
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Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time(chess.com)
292 points by Moodles 5y ago|157 comments
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by Moodles 5y ago
Looks like an excellent book. Would the author prefer the solutions to the exercises not be public? Or would it be welcome for someone to publish them? If the latter, I would quite happily work on it.
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by Moodles 5y ago
This was beautifully illustrated by Carl Sagan in Cosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8UwPd1z20 And humans tame fire at 11:46pm on December 31st. Every 0.2 seconds is a human lifetime. And all recorded history is just
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by Moodles 5y ago
i am also very skeptical of the phishing companies. It seems like a very scammy industry as a whole. I think yubikeys is a far better solution.
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by Moodles 5y ago
I suppose it's impossible to ever really know what the true nature of reality is. We only have models which have an accuracy of x%. It's quite possible, dare I say likely, that e.g. quantum mechanics as we understand it today is j
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by Moodles 5y ago
My personal view is that I like some drugs (weed, DMT, mushrooms) and will ebulliently buy them and encourage most others to as well, but I’m skeptical that allowing random people to sell heroin, fentanyl and meth is a good idea. But I don’

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