17663
Dylan
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Failed mathematician.
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New Panda Bear album in February, and he's coming to Detroit! No one comes to Detroit. https://www.dominomusic.com/news/us/panda-bear-announces-new-album-sinister-grift
Video of this morning's "chopsticks" landing of the Starship booster. Insane control. https://x.com/spacex/status/1845442658397049011
Neat paper out of Apple measuring the performance of a bunch of LLMs on a mathematical reasoning benchmark as the questions are varied: changing names, changing numbers, adding relevant clauses, and adding irrelevant statements. o1 seems to be in a class of its own, though it still falters when no-op statements are added. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229
Fun survey of vulnerabilities in E2EE cloud storage providers. Unauthenticated encryption is a theme. https://brokencloudstorage.info
New album from Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White, and Emmett Kelly. Millennials feasting. https://open.spotify.com/album/7tCKr50KVtUpGHGlWMhBsR
Menezes is posting cryptography lectures on this site. It looks like the post-quantum cryptography and error correcting codes courses are complete, an introductory course is ongoing, and a practical deployment course will run at the start of next year. https://cryptography101.ca/
Trying to catch up on the Thaler book study group in the ZK Hack Discord. Only 11 weeks behind.
Matt Green summarizes the current state of Telegram’s end-to-end encryption: it’s only available for one-on-one conversations, difficult to turn on, and still very home-brewed. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram-is-not-really-an-encrypted-messaging-app/
Go 1.23 with range-over-func is out. https://go.dev/doc/go1.23
Rust goals for the rest of 2024: a new edition, better async experience, and Rust for Linux building on stable. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/12/Project-goals.html
Russ Cox is stepping down as Go tech lead after 12 wildly successful years. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/0OqBkS2RzWw