The biggest threat to cryptography in the next 5-10 yrs (so, pre-quantum computing) is likely the vast amount of ultra-cheap GPU compute that's going to become available should the AI bubble burst... #AltHotTake

Congrats to AI at Meta on Llama 3 release!! 🎉
ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llam…
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Releasing 8B and 70B (both base and finetuned) models, strong-performing in their model class (but we'll see when the rankings come in @ lmsys.org :))
400B is still training, but already encroaching…

Recently noticed posts by friends and colleagues I knew years ago, in graduate school days, but now they have gray hair and have obviously aged. But as robust intellectually as ever. I suppose I must also appear aged, although on the inside I feel the same as when I was a…

😂😂 I’m reminded of a course offered called “Real simple groups”. 100 people showed up to the first lecture (presumably expecting it to be really simple, nevermind the grammatical error). Only five returned for lecture 2.

My only in-person training of 'Applied Fault Injection' in the USA will be at hardwear.io at the end of May - and it's almost sold out!

We will bypass the boot protections of the nRF52 (AirTag) and STM32 (Wallets), use power analysis to find glitch targets, ...

Q: Can we see highly complex entanglement from a few single-qubit measurements?

I always assumed this is impossible as entanglement can be too nonlocal for local measurements to see

In arxiv.org/abs/2404.07281, we prove that it can actually be done for almost all quantum states

AMS NanEye camera module (!!) with 0603 capacitor for scale. Yes, there are multiple lens elements, image sensor with Bayer, readout electronics and serialiser in there.

What fraction of the tiles are blue? How did you do?

Modern enterprise software be like…

labs.watchtowr.com/ibm-qradar-whe…

Is this what Devs do when they see the creative misuse from hackers?

Do the fine-structural accounts of inner models of set theory, such as in the constructible universe and the higher analogues with large cardinals, provide evidence that those theories are consistent? I discuss on MathOverflow...
mathoverflow.net/q/469068/1946

An unhinged experiment in rolling my own development tunnel solution, using nothing more than OpenSSH, Nginx, and a little bash.

0xda.de/blog/2024/04/c…

What fraction of the tiles are black? How did you get your answer?

Certain types of sea urchins will pick up a shell with their tube feet and ‘wear’ it, with a behavior known as “covering reaction”, mainly because they shy away from light.

So aquarium enthusiasts 3D-printed tiny hats and they wear them.

G. H. Hardy.

Back in the early '00's I was part of the BARB panels that recorded TV viewings so they could estimate viewing figures. When Doctor Who was relaunched in 2005 I said 50 people were watching ever episode with me so it would be recommissioned. 50, in my 1 bed flat. Sorry, not sorry

I have realized that every set that is definable from ordinal parameters is in fact definable from ordinal parameters by a formula of complexity at worst ∑_2. The reason is that if x is definable using formula φ and ordinal parameters, then by reflection this definition is…

You flip a coin 200 times. The first 100 flips, it lands on heads; the second 100, on tails. As a proud Bayesian, you conclude you are most likely in the middle of a logic puzzle.

Can you spot what sub_21c3c() is? (Hint: Part of libc)

How would you explain it?

For me this is a case where I immediately know what it is - just because I've seen it so often - but it took me a minute to explain it coherently.