madrafi

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by madrafi 6y ago
You can find aggregate liquidation data for Bitcoin futures and perpetual swaps in bybt.com
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by madrafi 6y ago
2013 called it wants its comments back..
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by madrafi 6y ago
well because quant trading isn't about import xgboost, you need a sustainable infra to handle api failovers, bad data... not even going to mention risk management which is 50% of what quant trading is about. the data provided is anonym
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A Field Guide to ZkSNARKs II: Arithmetization and Quadratic Arihmetic Programs(write.as)
2 points by madrafi 6y ago|0 comments
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DHH: Hey's Monolith Stack RoR and TurboLink and MySQL and Elastic and Redis(twitter.com)
7 points by madrafi 6y ago|3 comments
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So You Want to Build an End-to-End Encrypted Web App(zfnd.org)
167 points by madrafi 6y ago|37 comments
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by madrafi 6y ago
1.I usually try to write about things that both interest me and wish I have found when I started learning about subject X, the process is mostly doing a lot of reading and working out the ideas for example the most recent thing I published
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by madrafi 6y ago
I meant to skip over PCPs because it would need a separate posts and make the whole longer, I also avoided explicitly mentioning PCPs or SNARKs constructions from PCPs[1] for the same reason. Yes, concluding about the transparency vs proof-
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by madrafi 6y ago
Author here, I did gloss over PCPs certainly, and agree that SNARKs also use PCPs and I might have made the terrible conclusion about proof sizes. Will push an update soon ! thanks for taking the time.
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A Field Guide to zkSNARKs Part I: A Primer on Computation(write.as)
65 points by madrafi 6y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go(github.com)
37 points by madrafi 6y ago|2 comments
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by madrafi 6y ago
I recently took time to dive into compilers and programming languages by reading Thorsten Bell's excellent books, and this is what came out !
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Show HN: A Test Driven Demo of ZkSTARKs in Golang(github.com)
1 points by madrafi 6y ago|0 comments
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by madrafi 7y ago
This was quite a treat !
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by madrafi 7y ago
Last year a group of companies and institutions created a working standard. https://homomorphicencryption.org/standard/
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by madrafi 7y ago
Not really ! Activation functions are usually non-linear. What happens is we turn our numbers into their counterparts in another group (abstract group) and work there (at a high-level).
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by madrafi 7y ago
Would like to point that the work done by the curve25519 team is solid, Henry is also behind the ristretto RFC. The reason Facebook used the BFT algorithm is for pure regulatory purposes (they needed a Blockchain therefore a solid consensus
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by madrafi 7y ago
imagine arguing PGP security with tptacek
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by madrafi 7y ago
I use the same exact method.
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by madrafi 7y ago
ADHD isn't just overdiagnosed, it's both https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdi...
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Zerocoin Exploited in the Wild on ZCoin Chain(zcoin.io)
3 points by madrafi 7y ago|0 comments
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by madrafi 7y ago
Africa and the Middle East are 10-sigmas.
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by madrafi 7y ago
This touches close to home :')
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The Programmers(actuallyachraf.github.io)
2 points by madrafi 7y ago|0 comments
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by madrafi 8y ago
I thought Visa sponsorship was the issue for third-world countries,I and many of my friends (local code meetup) share the same story ; apply to 150+ companies and not a single response. We are white from North-Africa. I stopped applying abr
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by madrafi 8y ago
- Startup invents chat widget - Chrome extension to block widget I love the internet
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by madrafi 8y ago
Just follow MIT Open Courseware for curriculum as for how to learn either the lectures or textbooks, lectures are good for initial understanding but then you'll need a textbook to go over the definitions,theorems and very important EXE
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by madrafi 8y ago
Finally someone got that pun lol
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by madrafi 8y ago
- Rationality From AI to Zombies (huge collection of essays about (rationality,intelligence,quantum physics,bayesian probability,philosophy...) that can be read on lesswrong.com) -Intuition Pumps and other Thinking Tools -Sapiens -Edward.O
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by madrafi 8y ago
I used mypy to build a tiny toy deep learning library it was nice to use.

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