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by ilya_m 2y ago
That's correct! The text is presented on the source web page as a story, and it does not claim to be factual. Alexander Grothendieck was indeed awarded the Crafoord Prize, which he rejected. (It was never worth 40 mil francs as the tra
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NIST finalizes trio of post-quantum encryption standards(theregister.com)
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by ilya_m 2y ago
What is the link to the Chicago study?
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> have an easy way to fullfill their ”implement cybersecurity” There's a typo in there. "Do cyber" is how the said managers would phrase it.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> But the “riddle” requires P to be exactly true or false. Your choice of P (whether the continuum hypothesis holds) is still ill-defined! This is because the answer depends on the system of axioms one subscribes to. Or, if you feel like
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> A Turing machine with finite states must eventually either halt or loop. Those are the only options, because there are only finitely many configurations it can be in, and each configuration completely determines the next. The Turing ma
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> the other 99.99% of academics should reconsider their presentation style; the reason their papers don't spark such arguments is that they've given up on educating the ignorant the way scott does I don't see how the secon
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Ian Goldberg ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldberg )
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> The worst taxes are the ones that are regressive and secret. In my book, negative externalities are worse than taxes. If we agree that a car driving in Lower Manhattan inflicts a non-trivial cost on everyone else, then not taxing it
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by ilya_m 2y ago
To be fair, peer-reviewed publications are not what they used to be. For example, the conference reviewing process is not designed to validate correctness of the submissions. (Obviously wrong papers are filtered out most of the time, but th
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> Avoiding PKI and post-quantum security correlate very much. Even under plausibly post-quantum assumptions we only have a couple of assumptions from which we can build public key encryption. These statements presuppose an overly expansi
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> A Mersenne twister ... is fine for deck shuffling It isn't. Please don't do that! Mersenne Twister is fully reversible given its 624 consecutive outputs (see, for instance, this pretty good write-up: https://blog.o
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Exactly. > things go badly pretty quick. Dealing 2^200 hands, assuming that one hand takes 1ns, is more than ... pretty much any conceivable physical quantity one can think of. (Technically, the heat death of the universe takes longer th
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What became of a Bay Area prodigy(sfchronicle.com)
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> it is fully approved for ALK+ NSCLC and has been since 2015. Not exactly. FDA granted it an orphan drug designation in 2014, and then full approval for second- or third-line therapies in 2018 (on the basis of a Phase I/II study).
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by ilya_m 2y ago
>>>>Even after 60.2 months of follow-up, the median progression-free survival has not yet been reached [1] > This sounds awful? Or contradictory at best? No, quite amazing. At 5 years more than 50% of participants are progres
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by ilya_m 2y ago
It is: > In the phase 3 trial, 296 patients with advanced forms of non-small cell lung cancer were randomly assigned to receive either lorlatinib (149 patients) or crizotinib (147 patients, of whom 142 ultimately received treatment).
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> It's based on income, and handled by the states, and the income limit climbs based on number of children. SNAP also require asset limits, which is $2,750 per _household_. Given that rent for a large family may easily be in the ~$1
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Is this really? If foodstamps were to suddenly disappear, would Amazon increase their wages? I doubt it. In fact, there would be _more_ desperate people scrambling for some paying jobs, which would depress wages further. Right?
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> To add insult to injury, means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs! This is not informative. The correct comparison would be of the marginal cost of eligibility testing (both in terms of false
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by ilya_m 2y ago
First, ~10-20% of residential home sales are new (the proportion swings widely year-to-year), with a non-trivial fraction of their costs going to materials and labor. Second, 5-6% of the typical sale go toward the agents and closing costs.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> it is still right to say that money is created when a mortgage is issued if that mortgage is backed by large investors. Is it? Since the house seller wants to have cold, hard cash (or, these days, an incoming wire transfer, which still
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Your intuition is correct. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPP_(complexity)
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by ilya_m 2y ago
"In a recent paper" - really? The paper first appeared in ESA 2022. The revised version (with some errors fixed) is from May 2023. To be fair, compared to the rate of progress in this area between Flajolet & Martin (1985) and
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> an incredibly damning simile I stand by my comment, however harsh it may seem. Some of the disdain held by cryptographers, especially of a certain generation, is in no doubt a reaction to Schneier's prominence in the public eye as
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by ilya_m 2y ago
A better book for what audience? The scientifically minded can do much worse than "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup (on which the online cryptography course is based). For a more practical a
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by ilya_m 2y ago
(Writing as a professional cryptographer.) Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" is about as useful for learning about cryptography as "The Da Vinci Code" for learning about Renaissance. It is a lively book that name-ch
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> Also, there exist problems that are NP hard that cannot be solved in polynomial time and have atrocious worst-case complexity, but their average complexity is quite reasonable and feasible for a machine to calculate. This is an active
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> having duplicate capabilities for it is a waste. This is a feature, not a bug. This is how a system of checks and balances works in authoritarian countries - the entire security apparatus is duplicated several times over lest one agenc
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by ilya_m 2y ago
What recent news are you referring to? Does it put your concerns to rest: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/california-electric-cars-c... ?

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