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mircea_popescu: anyway, to not unwarrantedly attack
a whole nominal group : there are sane people too. an example "Well, he also references Bacon's Novum Organum as justification for "rigorous analysis" in cryptography, by which he apparently means theorem/proof analysis. To my knowledge, that work essentially describes how to conduct empirical scientific experiments to gain knowledge, and does not support the claim that the former ki
mircea_popescu: ancient history to it, too. "is this blessing good or not ?" "it's great. except if in the future things happen, in which case it WILL RETROACTIVELY HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN
A BLESSING!"
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2014 17:22:35; asciilifeform: that many of the titles bear
a striking resemblance to each other. "Adaptive Mesh Analysis" reads one and "An Adaptive Algorithm for Mesh Analysis" reads another. Dividing the total remaining by the average number of repetitions halves the list again. Mozart disappears before your very eyes.'
mircea_popescu: you are only
a REAL soviet if you spend your time wit hthe pravda and at the parades/meetings etc.
mircea_popescu: dude, the redditards should make
a bitcoin academia. with stolfi, katz and bogawan what's his face.
mircea_popescu: use the old one to certify the new one in all instances you care about, sign
a dead key notice with the old one, drop it in the sea.
mircea_popescu: make
a proper new key an' obsolete the old one for safeties.
PeterL: bah, It is
a 1042 size key, with
a 4096 sub
mircea_popescu was looking for the easy "no, one was born
a year after the other died", but neway.
mircea_popescu: to answer the original q : i am vaguely familiar
a bunch of different such schemes were entertained by people with varying degrees of competence.
mircea_popescu: there isn't
a woman anywhere they waited to take turns on, they never waited on each other to return books to library, nothing, vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: looks like
a sort of what is it, erdos number hackathon ?
mircea_popescu: in this sense there was no literacy pre books, either. this is not
a property of the world.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: there is not
a single unified 'playing field', no. what there is, is
a torch carried by maybe 3-5 people at
a time. ever.
mircea_popescu: well,
a copywriter who found himself locked in
a "math teaching" job, like that girl in my class i recounted the story of.
mircea_popescu: in general, there isn't one. in the rare cases when human genius couples with dilligence and creates
a SINGLE playing field, the pissants are unaware - generally deliberately.
ascii_butugychag: can ignore pissants, but cannot conjure
a honest research community into existence.
mircea_popescu: me of the fundamental philosophical flaws that underly the said article and some of its misconceptions regarding theoretical research in Cryptography in the last quarter of
a century."
mircea_popescu: "This essay relates to
a recent article of Koblitz & Menezes (Cryptology ePrint Report 2004/152) that ``criticizes several typical `provable security' results'' and argues that the ``theorem-proof paradigm of theoretical mathematics is often of limited relevance'' to cryptography. Although it should be obvious that these claims are utterly wrong, we undertake articulating this triviality. In particular, we point out so
mircea_popescu: "Actually, mathematics does have
a "fast publication cycle" alternative -- which is to put papers on the arXiv. This works very well in practice, and in fact
a morning ritual of most research mathematicians is to browse the arXiv mailing form the night before in his/her area. After
a few months in the arXiv, hopefully generating some useful comments and criticisms, the paper would finally be submitted to
a journal. " <
mircea_popescu: motherfucker - euler figured out how to sum integers to infinity while he was
a teen. where the fuck is YOUR early work that you can incremental upon
mircea_popescu: 2. As someone pointed out in
a comment from My Biased Coin blog, is "incremental results" such
a bad thing for the advancement of science that one has to "criticize" in the manner that Koblitz did? As far as I can tell, the great Euler published quite
a few "incremental results.""
mircea_popescu: "1. My conjecture: all scientific areas do have the "incremental results" problem. Does any one have any data supporting the hypothesis that CS (or TCS) has
a higher percentage of "incremental results" published in respectable journals/conferences? If not, Koblitz' criticism is only as valid as "there are few women in CS," which though correct is hardly CS' own problem.
mircea_popescu: prepare for
a fucking wave of that as an entire construction of circular shiteating is getting unwound.
mircea_popescu: As promised, I have written
a letter of complaint to the editors of the Notices. I don't know if it will get published (it is also
a bit long), but it is available here (pdf) or here (ps) "
mircea_popescu: For this reason, I thought publication of his article in the Notices of the AMS was inexcusable. Even worse, this latest incarnation of his essay goes beyond being
a mere "academic" argument and degenerates to name-calling and belittlement of an entire field and all the people who work in it. (And it seems pretty clear that his feelings extend beyond crypto to CS at large.)
mircea_popescu: "What really bugs me, however, is how much publicity Koblitz has managed to get out of this. I see him invited to give talks at many venues, but never see anyone invited to present
a counter-argument. (For that matter, I don't see invited speakers at cryptography conferences poking fun at the cryptographic work that mathematicians do.) This does not matter so much when Koblitz speaks at
a TCS-venue (any intelligent cry
PeterL: if I have more than one key in gpg, is there
a way to tell it which one to use for signing stuff?
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: the lawsuit crackpot linked earlier was, imho, pure gold. he was genuinely convinced that rule-of-law was
a thing! and kept picking, picking at the cracks in it, utterly mystified that every single judge 'lost' his papers, etc
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: reminds of the boondocks: "I was looking for bitches, but they had they carpet shit all over them and I couldn’t see what they look like. All that was really exposed was they eyes. And that wasn’t enough for me ‘cause you know, shit I’m lookin at they eyes and they eyes could be pretty and I take off their carpet… and then I got
a tragedy."
mats: ascii_butugychag: as I recall, only
a handful died taking the hospital
mats: god forbid americans see what real war is like,
a white woman being gangraped by goatherders
ascii_butugychag: so yes, mats gets to die gallantly so
a butch lesbian can captain
a carrier
ascii_butugychag: see, modern us army is, among other things,
a machine for making female brass
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 15:39:50; mats:
a swinging dick would rather leave cover and drag
a wounded woman to safety and treat her wounds than return fire
mats:
a swinging dick would rather leave cover and drag
a wounded woman to safety and treat her wounds than return fire
☟︎ mats: what, people forgot modern combat loads are maiming
a nontrivial percentage of dudes that deploy for nine months?
mircea_popescu: (and for the record, for they of anthropological curiosities - there's an entire cvasi-science in the notes of technicians running the early infrastructure of hte industrial revolution. it's
a shocking if fascinating mix of all sorts of things.)
mircea_popescu: the whole field is essentially
a commune of technicians trying to run
a factory. because the last time they saw
a scientist or an engineer they were about 5 and one visited the zoo.
mircea_popescu: could it be that the only way lowbrow pigborn with delusions of centrality and leadership could continue pretending like he has "
a good handle" on things with his schemes derived on looseleaf papers, ever so similar in contents and consistency to the ever-genius schemes of the broke if consummate las vegas gambler, horse race expert etc ?
mircea_popescu: there's this very strong undercurrent of farmer mind fighting against the complexity of the world through denial and fetish worship, if you look at it. WHY must entirely banal approach be secret ? perhaps for the same exact reason children playing spontaneously errupt in "it's not fair like that", to fix the necessarily broken rules of the GAME they are playing so it's playable
a little longer ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1397029 << understand,
a fucking field where something as commonplace as differential cryptanalysis is "classified"... every SINGLE FUCKING PERSON of human composition to ever EVEN CONSIDER the matter came up with differential cryptanalisis within the fucking day. because what the everloving fuck. as
a 10yo playing with 10yo girls i came up with it. just how fucking hard c
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and to turdcherry the shitcake, all these nobodies on
a stick run around spewing wholly delusional notions of expertise and amateurship. just don't ask them to put it to any sort of actual test.
mircea_popescu: "Public, signed directories for everyone in the world You can now write data in
a very special place: /keybase/public/yourname"
mircea_popescu: "Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with
a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very different." da fuck is this shit.
punkman: asciilifeform:
a heathen perversion for each thing in tmsr. << which thing, g?
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2014 17:22:35; asciilifeform: that many of the titles bear
a striking resemblance to each other. "Adaptive Mesh Analysis" reads one and "An Adaptive Algorithm for Mesh Analysis" reads another. Dividing the total remaining by the average number of repetitions halves the list again. Mozart disappears before your very eyes.'
trinque: perhaps after shiva has destroyed the old world and created
a new one
danielpbarron: >>
A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. << /me thinks of leaky treebark flasks
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 23:34:43; mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was
a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for
a while nao. finally dawned ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Got
a good link on Mozilla selling their vulns?
BingoBoingo: But seriously lolz on Bugzilla: "It seems that eventually by fixing this non-bug
a REAL BUG has now been created: forcing the ASK_BEFORE_ACCEPT like ACCEPT_NORMALLY (see comment 19 above by M Hamdy) results in allowing, e.g., google.com to install
a cookie even if google.com is set to be blocked in the list of exceptions."
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 02:18:02; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> any means to prove that
a ~particular~ instance of that problem is not susceptible to
a more efficient pill. << incidentally, this is the best argument for SIMPLE (mathematically) ciphers and cryptography generally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> any means to prove that
a ~particular~ instance of that problem is not susceptible to
a more efficient pill. << incidentally, this is the best argument for SIMPLE (mathematically) ciphers and cryptography generally.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " In another variation on the theme, statisticians created the concept of
a “standard deviation” realizing that samples in
a data set may vary considerably."
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the story of the Obeast inducing vomit in
a normal person has since been removed from reddit by the fee-fee police
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
a barony! << Barony today, Dutchy tomorrow
mircea_popescu: for
a while for instance they wanted to live in florence, venice etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was
a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for
a while nao. finally dawned ?
☟︎ danielpbarron: on
a related note, there is
a free bot for getting bitcoin and it's called FoxyBot and it's for Eulora