asciilifeform: nah he'll have ready pocket answer, 'hey, nadia did it in 2013' etc
asciilifeform: ( at one point asciilifeform sat in a peanut gallery in the godforsaken heathen pit where 50+ 'nadias' sat in committee, can prolly even make a guess as to likelies )
asciilifeform: i'm almost curious nao, just which nadia will be getting professorship from 'discovering' the serpent lul.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naturally. ( tho 'nadia' will prolly have to wait for asciilifeform to do it, before 'nadia did it' , like the prev time )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i.e. supplies it in rsa envelope ?
asciilifeform: mod6: afaik 'current' prb is more or less separate net, for all practical purpose
asciilifeform: mod6: the days when there was any cheese there, of whatever kind, are long gone
asciilifeform: how exactly does it go. 'hey, mircea_popescu et al. are buncha cannibals, lemme go and find... buncha tards, to handle mah coinz, instead' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, but still gotta wonder. rly, srsly, prb ??
asciilifeform quite distant from subj of hockey, saw a grand total of 1 game in whole life, so will leave thread alone rather than emitting lulzhowlers
asciilifeform: i dunno how much 'level' buncha 50-60 y.o. d00dz have; but then again i am not aficionado
asciilifeform: afaik he only plays with ru ex-pro's. but whoknows, can dream
asciilifeform: 'Kanye West is not Picasso Remember Me: All day, nigga' .
asciilifeform: e.g. 'I’m just back from a wedding in Calgary. It was a fairly posh affair, if an intimate one befitting the couple’s slightly more mature stage of life. A well-to-do dentist, herself the daughter of an even better-to-do-though-recently-retired dentist, was marrying a charming chap from the Maritimes. It was a slightly exhausting trek with our four-month-old in tow, but in the end so very worth it' etc etc
asciilifeform: i dun see that pete_dushenski has any biznis here. he's where he belongs, with the 'mah fambly' picz, automotive circle-jerks, etc
asciilifeform: i do sometimes wonder what goes on in the heads, 'hey i hate them nao, mebbe prb is where it's at', wtf
asciilifeform: the fundamental problem with 'i'ma use turing-complete automaton as hash!' is that ~specifically~ the aspect that makes it seem appealing to begin with, is the very same thing that kills you, it is impossible to prove non-cyclicity
asciilifeform: ( in general asciilifeform eschews wasting folx's time with questionable algos for which there is no approach to fix )
asciilifeform: i had an automata thing, but found that i could not in good conscience play it for the prize, i never found any approach to a proof that it dun have ( as mircea_popescu called ) 'kek state'
asciilifeform: ( the prng stuff is even easier to demolish, imho it's not worth anyffing )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the bigger saddity, is that i dun have anything to offer to plug-in replace 'serpent', nao just as in '16 when mircea_popescu was offering prizes
asciilifeform: sad, but better to learn this nao than after gluing it in eulora, or baking asics, etc
asciilifeform: ( and dollars to doughnuts , can be narrowed substantially using what leaks out into ciphertext, but that's ~entirely~ separate bag of lulz )
asciilifeform: my current guess is , north of 64bit, but south of 80
asciilifeform: loox like finding answer might add up to costing some penies ( or not, lessee, if dulap dun suffice, i'ma lease some cycles on lulazon cluster )
asciilifeform: i still dun know what the actual keyspace is, just yet
asciilifeform: ( by a certain mugurel.andreica<at>cs.pub.ro . wonder if spyked et al know the fella )☟︎
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in detritus from asciilifeform's torture room, 'În această lucrare se prezintă o metodă eficientă de implementare a eliminării Gaussiene pentru o matrice de dimensiuni n·m (m≥n), folosind o arhitectură SIMD ce constă dintr-o matrice de n·m procesoare.' (U.P.B. Sci. Bull., Series C, Vol. 71, Iss. 4, 2009)
asciilifeform: trinque: wb. yer in for some pretty lulzy l0gz, imho
asciilifeform: 'First of all you can’t get power to charge your laptop. Anywhere. Electrical outlets in customer areas: it’s just not done here' << sounds like the ultimate trial for us x60 folk☟︎
asciilifeform: hm trinque is Mocky currently in the deedbot rotation ? i missed his last 2 posts apparently
asciilifeform: so for bit 0 of w, h21 ^ f21 ^ d21 ^ a21 ^ 1 == w0, and if you want that w0 they gotta sum to same thing mod-2 , no matter what. but for the ~last~ bit of W, you have 79 whole slots ! that still only gotta add up to same thing mod-2 ! many more variants .
asciilifeform: btw if it aint obvious -- the denser the horiz. path across the pic, the ~easier~ it is to find alt-solutions to that line of the expansion (i.e. rearrangements of the input key that yield the same mod-2 summation when multiplied with that row of the matrix )
asciilifeform: it's funny, if only to me -- if author wanted to make the keyspace == 2**256, all he would have had to do is to drop a copy of the 256bit key into the expansion. but i can already picture the fatlogic, 'oh noez, that wouldn't do, will leak key via plaintext cuz not whitened'
asciilifeform: i'm reminded of the chessboards they used to print in sov newspapers. after a good rain.
