mircea_popescu: the original said "The French don't like being famous for their incapacity of being on time ? Let them fix their watches somehow to the same hour, so they quit going about Paris, apparent adults, with half hour's delta among what their watches show. " and i'm willing to attest even as late as LAST DECADE this was a factual state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: nowadays, smartphones are within half a second of each other -- jobs fixed paris timekeeping!
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-27#1890343 -> a paper with actual content, ha! though I rather doubt the authors' statement that "the need for careful distinction between non-adversarial (or random) and adversarial primality testing is of course well understood in the cryptographic research community."
☝︎ diana_coman: asciilifeform, authors seem to be with some Uni in London still so probably reachable, yes; but it's still an email first anyway, you know?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-25 17:21 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in 'holy fuck, i thought we hit rock bottom but then heard a knock from below' lulz,
http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mcleod/index.html << 'professor of engineering' tries to argue in favour of old-fashioned , carmichaelizable primality litmus ~instead~ of m-r, on acct of the 'rarity of carmichael #s' .
mircea_popescu: me either, tbh. is this also part of the "well understood distinction" ?
mircea_popescu: i confess i'm mildly concerned when i don't see these "well understood" shits.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck "cryptographic research community", at that ? what's THIS even mean, "cenaclul poetilor judeteni", aka "country poet's club" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so why the fuck is "amply agreeable" called "well understood".
a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 17:31 asciilifeform: the #1 entry is gut-bustingly lulzy to asciilifeform , because i spend ~half year auditing a multilinear-map thing for $rupturefarm, and even was sent to a 'conference' where 'serious cryptographers' did not even blink when someone walked in with a proof that whole thing was crock of shit
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between well and wide, for fuck's sake. what is this, intellectual fast fooding
mircea_popescu: it's an incredible role reversal, the past decades wrought, when "our subgroup has special knowledges, making things readily-er obvious to us rather than general public" turned into "our subgroup has special pleadings, making things passed unlaughed at that general public would fall over to hear."
Mocky: wasn't it shannon with the otp proof?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:09 mircea_popescu: but tbh, the "stochastic convergence test" seems to me worth A LOT more than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
BingoBoingo: ^ Small supporting lul, Vzla opposition folks are reporting ~700 protester arrests over the weekend which is about an order of magnitude under the numbers Macron was was detaining when the Yellow Jacket thing was new
BingoBoingo: Odd how all these "repressive dictators" seem to have a much lighter hand than European "Champions of Demoocrity"
BingoBoingo: Appears more NeeBee'd, contrary to implications in the Anglophone media that ~1.2 billion USD in gold (why not cite the thing in its own unit of measure) is all the gold, Vzla mines gold
BingoBoingo: Airstrip One probably made some smooth pitch about how doing so was the only demonstration they would accept if Vzla wanted access to their fx markets. But... unlike republican spain was not in the gold extraction business... empire running away and all that, Vzla is.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ^ Breaking, bolder than normal world "policing"
BingoBoingo: All that's realling missing is a "Maine" to remember
shinohai: So more sanctions are answer since Moscow says "nyet" to military invasion by US ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:36 asciilifeform: north kr is simply a large-scale version of the thing wonderful civilized americans like to do to prisoners, chain'em up to a post until shits himself.