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I cannot overstate how much the revolution needs kind, reliable, people who show up when you need them and does not need drug-addled cut-rate Hunter S. Thompson impersonators.
Some of us here & on bsky are making the slop enthusiasts cry with all our anti-AI sentiment.
Come on, we're better than this.
We can make them cry even more!
Good news: “Oxford University closed the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), a research organization led by philosopher Nick Bostrom, who is backed by Elon Musk”
@d_rift well until i find a book on elliptic curves and cryptographic security that isn't actively negging me the whole time i still tend to quite like the idea of just doing math on a string of bits
@hipsterelectron It's where we have to end up. So that keeps it real. Else someone will say they "have" an "infinite" sequence instead of a generator bounded by the total machine capacity and the ground will disappear in a poof of simulated smoke.
"Just go outside!" chirps the MPs. "Don't spend so much time on your screens!" cries the parents. Where do you want kids to go? And what do you want them to do? Everything is either closed down or costs a fucking fortune. So standing around in groups on the streets is it?
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@hipsterelectron This would even have made more sense, wouldn't it? Like, to have started with p. Take a cyclic subgroup of length p in the multiplicative group of some prime field and... define the difficulty of the problem straight on p. A lot of the number chasing reduces. Nobody actually cared what size q was unless they were calculating on it (yuck).
@d_rift well until i find a book on elliptic curves and cryptographic security that isn't actively negging me the whole time i still tend to quite like the idea of just doing math on a string of bits
@d_rift sorry !! was getting chocolate at aldi
@hipsterelectron Chocolate is vital! I was thinking a lot slower than I was typing.
View from above of my return.
(Lets the algorithm change perspective).
PS. To those who ask me why I love Tunisia so much: bcs despite the enormous challenges for so many, there is no hyper-consumerism, access to the sea is not privatised and ordinary people are just lovely.
Night Sky over the City
Gouache on cotton paper
8” square
Someone suggested that I paint a landscape with that crazy color triad I tried out in my last color wheel, the one with fluorescent pink, vivid teal, and muted yellow. So here it is! Now, one of the colors I used is opera pink, which contains fluorescent dye, and fluorescent paints are ALWAYS fugitive, which means they will fade over time with exposure to light. So I mixed in some better lightfast magenta with the pink, so that when the fluorescence fades, the pink will still remain. All the rest of these colors aren’t going anywhere.
@lauren 1976?!?!
@ai6yr Yep! 5 Jan 1976. By that time, the launch was in color, given how late it was, even though that meant more expensive sets from day one.
I wonder if voltage monitors/supervisors are worth the effort in 2026 for normal MCU? Most have some brownout protections already. But it's also nice to have something that you know will hold NRESET low until you're actually at stable power.
FPGA and other such nonsense are a different thing entirely.
@petrillic voltage regulator with PG tied to MCU’s RST
Sneak preview of a not-yet-production-quality contribution to Mines. I expected this particular mode to be brain-meltingly confusing, and it is, but not for quite the reasons I'd guessed.
Le refuge corrézien durant ce voyage à #velo. Des amis adorables m'ont accueilli une dizaine de jours, dans un cadre apaisant.
An old house where I stayed with friends during my time in Correze.
@d_rift you were still analyzing in terms of security which is an admirable thing to do. i personally have seen p >= sqrt(q - 1) as a bound for largest subgroup mentioned once but it was in an IBM paper so that makes me want to default to p >= (q - 1)/2 again lol
@d_rift i always forget what the prime number theorem says but maybe it could say something about the probability of finding p within each bound as a function of q
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
>> If you live outside of the #UnitedStates, do you know if your country has a plan if the #US government decided to cut access to #Google, #Microsoft, and #Amazon products overnight?
What better way to nuke the #tech #broligarch cartel in the US swiftly and for good? Go for it #USA.
COS/OSF currently has a "Modular File Renderer" (https://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/modular-file-renderer) that I use to embed (via an iframe) a Jupyter Notebook on a static webpage. With OSF projects going away, I'm assuming I won't be able to use this any longer. Does anybody know of an alternative that would allow me to point the renderer at a Github hosted Jupyter Notebook and embed that as an iframe on a static site?
@hipsterelectron Wow my brain is slow. Sorry. Yeah you could do that. I'm not sure it helps any, but you could. So long as p is "big enough", what q that ended up on is... kinda unimportant as far as I know, or at least can be indexed out and doesn't alter the difficulty.
@hipsterelectron This would even have made more sense, wouldn't it? Like, to have started with p. Take a cyclic subgroup of length p in the multiplicative group of some prime field and... define the difficulty of the problem straight on p. A lot of the number chasing reduces. Nobody actually cared what size q was unless they were calculating on it (yuck).
@lauren I hesitate to blame the politicians. I think DC's will happen no matter what. The problem is the Tech industry ignored obvious public issues like added burdens on power and water. It seems to me that everybody should collaborate there are hundreds of superfund sites, abandoned buildings including factories. solar and wind power and water treatment all working together should make for a win win
@Oldmikie Abandoned buildings are useless for data centers. They need to be purpose-built, and land not near appropriate water and power sources is also useless to them. And again, renewable energy sources are a drop in a bucket to their power needs. On site nukes could provide the power, and that is one approach being pushed, but as a recent internal GOP study noted, data centers are as popular to the public as nuclear waste.
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