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by bdhe 15y ago
Tim Gowers, fields medallist and the person who started the first polymath project just wrote a couple of blog posts (the latter including suggestions from the former) on a new model of math publishing. They are highly detailed and well tho
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by bdhe 15y ago
Think of (3) as saying without salting, with Google and the internet, the precomputed tables that are used for brute-force attacks are already out there and can be queried with a simple Ruby program.
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by bdhe 15y ago
That's true, but note that China and India, together with 2.6 billion / 7 billion people don't have daylight saving. The former for political, the latter for latitude reasons. Another big country to abolish it recently is Russia.
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by bdhe 15y ago
Interesting trivia: Daylight savings might only be worth the effort for countries in the middle-latitude range (largely Europe, Americas and Australia/NZ). The closer you are to the equator, there's little variation in daylight and thus it
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by bdhe 15y ago
I'm completely speculating, but I wonder if the bottleneck of math being hard is tied directly to how notoriously bad the standard of math in K-12 education is? I've always wondered how in the US the public school system is very weak (or at
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Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion.(npr.org)
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by bdhe 15y ago
Previous discussion from last week here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3154913
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It's a very easy trap to fall into if you're living check to check and make even the slightest mistake. In each such story online, I've heard a claim that they specifically have algorithms to maximize the penalty fees on these mistakes. I
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by bdhe 15y ago
Its also interesting to note how much the demographics of the world has changed and will be changing over the next 40 yrs or so. These are outdated links, but take note of the top 10 most populated countries in 2050. The fact that Nigeria,
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by bdhe 15y ago
Interestingly, the Euro, when introduced back in the early 2000s was considered biased and even led to a statistician testing it out. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1748
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by bdhe 15y ago
Fascinating preliminary research work. Side-channels in cryptography are infamous but it is clear that the concept of side-channels is a more generic concept about information leaking in ways that aren't typically considered and/or modeled.
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Researchers lock down Android to keep data from walking out the door(arstechnica.com)
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Copyright czar cozied up to Big Content, e-mails show(arstechnica.com)
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Burglar tips off police about a bigger crime.(schneier.com)
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Beautiful 3D visualization of population density using WebGL(data-arts.appspot.com)
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His legacy lives on in the Danny Lewin Best Student paper award at STOC, the premier theory conference. Here's a list of awardees: http://sigact.org/Prizes/Student/
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by bdhe 15y ago
It has been shown that if P != NP, then GI is in that valley. Could you point to a reference? Is this true even if P != NP, but NP = coNP?
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by bdhe 15y ago
... overdue account collections ... This is actually an interesting point. Both collection agents and patent trolls go about asking people to pony up the payment for goods (to put it colloquially) and they both do it on behalf of a third
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Research shows that starlings recognize context-free grammars.(nature.com)
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US, Aus, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and S. Korea sign ACTA(arstechnica.com)
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Maybe I'm being dense, but I couldn't gather from the notice the scope of the Italian law: Servers hosted in Italy? Publishers of said content irrespective of where it is hosted? Authors of said content? Would the website be blacklisted if
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Isaac Asimov on Security Theatre.(schneier.com)
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An example of security theatre in a 1956 Asimov short story.(decrepitoldfool.com)
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The phenomena of eventual counter-examples.(mathoverflow.net)
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Leisure: Don Knuth's 1984 article on the complexity of songs [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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The point about angle of escape was really interesting. However, my google fu failed me. The only relevant link mentioning angle of escape leads back to this post. Is there someone who can give me more information about this? (Or a more tec
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Opera security blog: The "BEAST" SSL/TLS issue.(my.opera.com)
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First solutions for recently announced BEAST SSL/TLS vulnerability.(h-online.com)
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by bdhe 15y ago
The orbit of Neptune takes it ~ 164 yrs and 9 months and indeed, earlier this year Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/12/ha... This simultaneously p
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Tesla v. Einstein: Transcending the speed of light.(writingriffs.com)
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