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by wbhart 13y ago
Simplicity and code size are important. With a large complex project like MPIR (which, being derived from GMP is certainly faster) it is very difficult for newcomers to make contributions. This typically means you are already contributing t
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Bsdnt – A BSD-licensed bignum library(github.com)
78 points by wbhart 13y ago|49 comments
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Anon_Operation tweeting again 3 years after account suspension(twitter.com)
3 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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by wbhart 13y ago
Pffft. Let me tell you about this so-called refund. I applied for said refund of UK TV license after leaving the UK at the end of September. They told me they could only refund unused _quarters_ of the license, meaning that they would only
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by wbhart 13y ago
The wording of the news is quite similar to a discovery reported in 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/science/25dna.html?_r=0 So is this a third code? A rediscovery of the same thing? Or a refineme
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Comet ISON did not survive perihelion(spaceweather.com)
4 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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Live SOHO pictures of comet ISON approaching perihelion(sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov)
1 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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Da Vinci's Viola Organista heard after 500 years(slate.com)
2 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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Da Vinci's cello with a keyboard(theage.com.au)
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Rant: Big New Youtube Google+ Changes Nov 2013(youtube.com)
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by wbhart 13y ago
If you have a strong RSA modulus, e.g. 2048 bits, then the primes we are talking about are about 1024 bits. There is no way you are going to hit such a prime number at random. Not even if you set a million fast computers going in a million
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by wbhart 13y ago
And if I make 100 copies of this computer program and run them on 100 different computers, which one will I be aware is me? Or will I just be aware of being 100 different beings at once? I think it should be obvious that a simulation of rea
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by wbhart 13y ago
The exact "copy" of you would be you, exactly as you are now, i.e. equivalently mortal.
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by wbhart 13y ago
The human brain is designed to live inside an innervated body. It receives constant updates on how the body is doing, and unconscious processes, some of them chemical, control every aspect of our internal life, from homeostasis, to the perc
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by wbhart 13y ago
The article states about unitarity and locality that "both are suspect". I'm happy for locality to be suspect, but in what sense is unitarity suspect? Surely only in the sense that it is apparently a consequence of more funda
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by wbhart 13y ago
Fixing this problem may not stop suspicionless spying. But it will certainly make it more expensive. The public revelation that the data wasn't encrypted is surprising, though I had previously speculated on it. See https://n
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by wbhart 13y ago
According to wikipedia, it is associated with (doesn't imply causation) physical changes to the brain in 40-50% of cases. I'm not any kind of expert, just reading what I see there, but apart from small decreases in brain volume (n
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by wbhart 13y ago
I agree that he's quite probably not racist. He appears to have a fascination with computerised randomisation as a means of divining words from God. This would explain some of his (otherwise unintrospectable) comments. And it also lead
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by wbhart 13y ago
Slightly off topic for this post, but since it is mentioned here: there is one part of that link which may appear slightly misleading without context. A twitter feed is mentioned, which ended up consisting of posts such as "and then Go
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by wbhart 13y ago
The companies have hinted there is much more they would like to talk about, but aren't allowed to. It must be hugely frustrating for them to see headlines like this, and be saying "yes, but you are missing the really important fac
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Judge had rebuked NSA for misleading 'secret court'(scmp.com)
2 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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by wbhart 13y ago
Oh boy, I wonder. It couldn't possibly be that they are going to focus on a secure way to do computing by any chance.
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by wbhart 13y ago
Apparently that was earlier this morning. It's been intermittent for hours since. One seller I spoke to has been unable to log in to their account until a few minutes ago, (though access to various features is still intermittent). In f
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by wbhart 13y ago
The argument here is approximately this: as solving jigsaw puzzles has been dramatically improved recently, you never know, maybe manufacture of weapons of mass destruction will suddenly get really easy overnight, resulting in an apocalypse
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by wbhart 13y ago
H^3 perhaps. There is a precedent. The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz algorithm (LLL) is often called L^3, admittedly because the complexity is O(L^3) in the bit size L. Later a quadratic algorithm was discovered, cheekily called the L^2 algorithm.
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Byron Sonne - Open Source the deep web (2011)(freebyron.org)
2 points by wbhart 13y ago|0 comments
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by wbhart 13y ago
Age restricted as inappropriate by UK filters, presumably because it contains "four letter words". Great one O2. Nothing like restricting access by our kids to educational material.
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by wbhart 13y ago
What would happen if these were constrained to run inside irregularly shaped "skins" and bred for "fitness" against some criteria. For example, take a look at Marsaglia's die hard tests for statistical randomness. Any machine that terminate
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by wbhart 14y ago
A pile of ballast stones maybe.
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by wbhart 14y ago
I only have questions, and _why is only one of them. The two burning ones for me are to what extent is he deliberate with the role his persona plays and to what extent are individuals trying to take a stab at what they think his role is, in

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