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by philipfweiss 5y ago
What if... the author wasn't aiming this post for a completely lay audience, but rather someone with a undergraduate/graduate level of mathematics/physics background who was interested in learning more about some phenomenon?
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
Qiaochu, unrelated, but I really enjoy your contribution to MathOverflow. This article is equally solid :)
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
I played a game of codenames, where I was the only guy on a team. I had an awesome clue- Flashbang: 4. None of the women on my team knew what it meant. Every guy in the room did. We lost the game, but it was a very interesting social experi
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
Nelson is brilliant- i've enjoyed his blog tremendously over the years. Especially his posts on how to properly think about testing. - https://blog.nelhage.com/post/testing-and-feedback-loops/
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
Was watching this lecture, and was startled to hear the Dan Boneh mention that P-256 might have a backdoor. Gist: the seed for the curve has unknown origin. Possible attack: let's say there is an attack possible on 1/10^6 curves.
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Dan Boneh: The elliptic curve running the modern internet might have a backdoor(youtube.com)
4 points by philipfweiss 5y ago|1 comments
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Minerva- Airbnb's Metric Platform(medium.com)
1 points by philipfweiss 5y ago|0 comments
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Minerva: A metric computation platform from Airbnb(medium.com)
2 points by philipfweiss 5y ago|0 comments
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Skiff, A privacy-centric alternative to Google docs(skiff.org)
5 points by philipfweiss 5y ago|1 comments
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
Note: I'm not affiliated with this project, but I saw it recently and think it's really cool. It seems they're trying to do for collaboration / office tools what signal did for messaging. Pretty awesome.
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by philipfweiss 5y ago
Ok so I am in a family group for Amazon prime, netflix, spotify, and hulu. So is the idea like I just have to create a skio account and then that manages all the group subscriptions? And presumably I can get better deals through skio than i
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by philipfweiss 7y ago
Four colors is sufficient for a planar graph, but insufficient for a general graph. A planar graph is any graph where the edges can be drawn in such a way that they only intersect at the endpoints (there is a more formal algebraic definit