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by schoen 6d ago
That would work if you were only demonstrating encryption or creating challenges related to encryption, but some challenges don't map very easily to a cipher (though you might be able to get them to map to a cipher key). In Simplicity
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by schoen 6d ago
Hence the time machine!
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by schoen 6d ago
I'm pretty sure this was achieved with prompting rather than with weights, but there is a chatbot available that tries to maximize the motivated refusals: https://www.goody2.ai/chat
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by schoen 6d ago
Except for the prize money for the RSA challenge contest! Although they'll also need to have Claude invent a time machine.
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by schoen 6d ago
I would very strongly recommend the Gökyay Chess Museum in Ankara, Turkey, if anyone is ever there. https://www.gokyaysatrancvakfi.org.tr/en/chess-museum/ Somewhat unexpectedly, I thought it was one of the best mu
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by schoen 6d ago
I was pretty shocked at the rate of change in Crawl. I played it for a couple of years and during that time entire major game mechanics changed, like moving from many kinds of food, to only one kind of food, to completely eliminating food
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by schoen 6d ago
Not sure! It sounded more imminent back in 2000 when I heard Eric Hughes perform the song.
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by schoen 6d ago
I've recently been working on this exact problem due to my desire to create puzzle challenges for Simplicity, the smart contract programming environment that I work on for my job. Since Simplicity runs on Bitcoin-like blockchains, some
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by schoen 6d ago
Like in the song! https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2004-June/00...
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by schoen 6d ago
I agree, so it's still not an ideal example.
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by schoen 7d ago
It could be a gimmick to grab attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res Lots of novels start off with "the gardener put down the gun" or "the elephant was never recovered" or "the
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by schoen 7d ago
I'm not sure this is the best achievable example, but maybe: "The street vendors have decided to oppose the ordinance." "But I thought Mike and Jacob said they support the ordinance. And Julia! Aren't they vendors?&
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by schoen 7d ago
I remember that reading there is a common misinterpretation of one of the visualizations in this paper, but I don't remember exactly what the misinterpretation is. Something about the visualization leads people to somehow exaggerate th
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by schoen 7d ago
... and the oceans aren't even that salty on the absolute scale of salty seas on Earth! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bodies_of_water_by_sal... "This water is so dense that you can't even sink in
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by schoen 7d ago
I remember seeing a wildcat in a sanctuary in Costa Rica with a similar story (the kittens looked like housecat kittens, so someone adopted them, but the adult cat's behavior was different enough to be really challenging). I've be
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by schoen 8d ago
> long before that was known to the public About 4-6 years earlier, depending what you want to count, although the inventors may also have been less clear on its importance or applications compared to the later public inventors. https:&
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by schoen 8d ago
Wiktionary's note says some people think this root may originally have referred to freshwater/inland seas, not oceans. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... In many of the daughter l
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by schoen 13d ago
My intuition is no, the family of cipher methods (even those that could be implemented by hand) is too open-ended, so there's no particular statistic that you could expect to see for all solvable ciphers and no unsolvable ciphers. The
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by schoen 13d ago
(2013)
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by schoen 13d ago
This behavior is fairly general to Unix! A cute thing on Linux is that there are also references to open files under /proc, including synthetic kernel-generated filesystem links to the files, even if they've been deleted. So if yo
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by schoen 14d ago
There are a lot of examples of this in the book The Secret of Our Success (which argues that human cultures have a lot of culturally-evolved knowledge which individuals would be very unlikely to develop in a single generation, and which o
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STS-51-F Abort-to-Orbit (1985)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by schoen 15d ago
Today I learned that one Space Shuttle flight (in 1985) successfully used the Abort-to-Orbit recovery plan (changing its flight path in real time in response to an engine failure during ascent). The overall mission continued, accomplished i
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by schoen 16d ago
I see, so there is a marginal cost to the owner of the machines but not necessarily to a medium-term customer renting them.
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by schoen 16d ago
In the sense that the company paying to reserve a certain quantity of computer time isn't the owner or operator of the machines providing it, and has paid for that time by the hour, or something?
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by schoen 16d ago
I'm confused by this because I was involved in various distributed computing projects from about 1997 to about 2001 (as a person running compute notes for them) and from about 2001 to 2019 (as a person helping to administer a distribut
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by schoen 19d ago
When I worked at EFF, I read a lot of news coverage (and forum discussions) of litigation, sometimes including litigation that I was working on. It was often very hard to get people to see larger context about issues like * in the course of
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by schoen 23d ago
I assume you linked to this because a new result was apparently just found (today?!), a factorization of RSA-260.
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by schoen 25d ago
Well, it translates to "God is my Help", it's just that the angel called that is identified with the Angel of Death!
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by schoen 26d ago
I was assigned to read some of his work in high school. Among (many) other things, he wrote a fair amount of criticism of technology and computers. https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/be... I

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