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Alice McFlurry :bc:

@Alice@beige.party 13 min. ago

IMPORTANT! Can we all talk about how weird it is that the lead singer of Weezer's name is RiverS?

chrisp

@chrisp@cyberplace.social 8 sec. ago

@Alice And no one talks about their second band, The Chainsmokers.

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Lauren Weinstein

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org 34 min. ago

Sickly hilarious to hear the pro-AI gang trying to talk up jobs that will be created by data centers. Yeah, there will be construction jobs until construction finishes. And then the whole gigantic hyper-scale data center monstrosity will be operated by a dozen people or so. JOBS ARE THE BIG AI LIE. One of them, anyway.

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social 31 sec. ago

Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods

https://www.history.com/articles/early-human-ancestors-diet-sugar-carbs

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396086

#HackerNews #earlyhumans #diet #carbs #sugaryfoods #foodhistory #anthropology

Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods | Hacker News

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 boosted

Deborah Preuss, pcc

@deborahh@cosocial.ca 5 days ago

Join 200k Canadians asking to eject the US ambassador:

Petition 🖊
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

Article: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dhmkgzkujbf47hh7xmqe4ydx/post/3mt73wuuqs22r
#cdnPoli #cdnPolitics #Canada #CanPoli #ElbowsUp

Petition e-7531 - Petitions

Carl Malamud

@carlmalamud@official.resource.org 1 hr. ago

Das

@SRDas@mastodon.online 1 min. ago

@carlmalamud yes good to balance out the Indian masala fried instant ramen noodle breakfast

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Broadwaybabyto

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca 44 min. ago

Residents in Gary, Indiana have been without power for nearly two weeks

Many are under a boil water advisory, which is nearly impossible without electricity

Thousands without power or safe water… and it’s barely a blip on the news

The richest country in the world is choosing to let people suffer

Please remember to check on the disabled and elderly … they are the first to die during catastrophic events like this

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/whats-going-on-in-gary-how-residents-are-still-without-power-nearly-two-weeks-later/3978350/?amp=1

#gary #indiana #uspol #disability #poverty #ableism

Carl Malamud

@carlmalamud@official.resource.org 37 min. ago

It’s carnage in my prep kitchen as I finish packaging 50 kg of pickles, podis, ladoos, and namkeens. I have lemon pickles, dried mango pickles, Andhra red chili chutney, carrot radish pickles, green chili pickles and have suddenly found myself very popular among my friends.

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Five flats, each with 12-30 containers of pickles. The jars are 4 ounces each. The shelf over the flats have jars of masala blends.

A 25 foot stainless steel counter full of packaged containers, wrapping materials, empty boxes.

Das

@SRDas@mastodon.online 3 min. ago

@carlmalamud kitchen/prep area looks ✨
And not surprised you're popular - you're sticking your logo pic on some jars!
(ducks)

Julian Oliver

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social 4 min. ago

Really enjoying continuing to not use AI for anything

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 7 min. ago

it's super crazy that yao proved polynomial-time unpredictability implies it satisfies all the statistical randomness tests too?????

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 6 min. ago

random access to the random stream??????? you can do that?????

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atomicker

@atomicker@mstdn.ca 4 hr. ago

As word of Carney's capitulations to Trump leak, remember:

• 56% of Canadians want the federal government to make no more concessions
• 74% support a special tax on electricity sold to the US
• 70% support taxing oil and natural gas exports to the US
• 70% support restricting US companies from bidding on Canadian gov't contracts
• 64% support a ban on the sale of all US liquor in Canada
• 63% support taxing potash exports to the US
• 60% oppose reducing our dairy supply management

Also: a plurality of Canadians (47%) say if a new trade deal is reached, a federal election should follow.

https://leger360.com/in-the-news-canada-us-trade-negotiations-august-2026/

#Canada #CDNPoli #NoDeal

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Alice McFlurry :bc:

@Alice@beige.party 13 min. ago

Why did it need to be plural?

kwayk42

@kwayk42@sechtor.social 6 min. ago

@Alice maybe he has multiple personalities?

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 8 min. ago

WTF YOU CAN USE DISCRETE LOG FOR RANDOMNESS TOO LMAO https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1982/28538.html

Abstract. Two closely-related pseudo-random sequence generators are
presented: The 1/P-generator t with input P a prime, outputs the quotient
digits obtained on dividing 1 by P. The x^2 mod N-generator with inputs N, x0
(where N = P-Q is a product of distinct primes, each congruent to 3 mod 4, and
x0 is a quadratic residue mod N), outputs b0 b1 b2 . . . where b_i = parity(x_i) and x_{i+i} = x_i^2 mod N.
From short seeds each generator efficiently produces long well-distributed
sequences. Moreover, both generators have computationally hard problems at
their core. The first generator's sequences, however, are completely inferable
(from any small segment of 2|P|+1 consecutive digits one can infer the "seed,"
P), while the second, on the other hand, is cryptographically secure (no
polynomial (| N | )-time statistical test can distinguish such sequences from ran
dom uniformly-distributed sequences). The second generator has additional
interesting properties: from knowledge of x0 and N but not P or Q, one can
generate the sequence forwards but not backwards. From the additional
knowledge of P and Q, one can generate the sequence backwards. Yet more
knowledge about N, including the factors of P—1 and Q - 1, enable one to "jump"
about from any point in the sequence to any other. Because of these properties,
the x2 mod N-generator promises many interesting applications, e.g., to public-
key cryptography. To use these generators in practice, an analysis is needed of
various properties of these sequences such as their periods. This analysis is
begun here. — Abstract. Two closely-related pseudo-random sequence generators are presented: The 1/P-generator t with input P a prime, outputs the quotient digits obtained on dividing 1 by P. The x^2 mod N-generator with inputs N, x0 (where N = P-Q is a product of distinct primes, each congruent to 3 mod 4, and x0 is a quadratic residue mod N), outputs b0 b1 b2 . . . where b_i = parity(x_i) and x_{i+i} = x_i^2 mod N. From short seeds each generator efficiently produces long well-distributed sequences. Moreover, both generators have computationally hard problems at their core. The first generator's sequences, however, are completely inferable (from any small segment of 2|P|+1 consecutive digits one can infer the "seed," P), while the second, on the other hand, is cryptographically secure (no polynomial (| N | )-time statistical test can distinguish such sequences from ran dom uniformly-distributed sequences). The second generator has additional interesting properties: from knowledge of x0 and N but not P or Q, one can generate the sequence forwards but not backwards. From the additional knowledge of P and Q, one can generate the sequence backwards. Yet more knowledge about N, including the factors of P—1 and Q - 1, enable one to "jump" about from any point in the sequence to any other. Because of these properties, the x2 mod N-generator promises many interesting applications, e.g., to public- key cryptography. To use these generators in practice, an analysis is needed of various properties of these sequences such as their periods. This analysis is begun here.

https://eecs.berkeley.edu

Home - EECS at Berkeley

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 7 min. ago

it's super crazy that yao proved polynomial-time unpredictability implies it satisfies all the statistical randomness tests too?????

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The Heart of the TARDIS

@TheHeartoftheTARDIS@pixelfed.social 1 hr. ago

#meme #memes

Josh Block v @JoshABlock It's unsurprising—>but still noteworthy —how smoothly 2A extremists shifted from fantasies of self defense against a tyrannical government to fantasies of assisting police in using force against other civilians.

katrani

@katrani@elekk.xyz 5 hr. ago

katrani

@katrani@elekk.xyz 7 min. ago

Idfk WHAT I did differently but tried it one more time before going to bed and got it?????

I should've had a recorder ready or something lol

Ken McLeod

@_the_cloud@mastodon.social 14 min. ago

@willowbl00 "Ever feel as if your mind had started to erode? The two hemispheres are fundamentally at odds."

willowbl00

@willowbl00@hachyderm.io 8 min. ago

@_the_cloud WHAT WAS HAPPENING

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 17 min. ago

This move by USPS signals two things:
1. Trump firmly expects the Roberts Court to use the shadow docket to let him do as he pleases re mailed ballots.
2. Even if the Roberts Court doesn’t greenlight his plans, he’s prepared to entirely flout the judiciary to disrupt the election. 2/

Michael Bishop ☕

@MichaelBishop@mastodon.world 8 min. ago

@heidilifeldman

This will be his undoing and ultimate trial for treason.

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 21 min. ago

From an information-theoretic point of view, the amount of randomness, the entropy that can be generated, is equal to the entropy provided by the system.

me when i'm not an adversary