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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 26 posts.
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic. In 2012, James Bamford published an article quoting anonymous former NSA officials stating that the agency had achieved a “computing breakthrough” that gave them “the ability to crack current public…
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Some thoughts about the reports of supposed evidence of election irregularities
The Internet lit up on Monday over the news, reported in New York Magazine , that a team of computer scientists and lawyers had reported to the Clinton campaign that “they’ve found persuasive evidence that results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked. ”
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Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math?
I recently attended the Heidelberg Laureate Forum , in which some older researchers--mainly Fields Medalists and Turing Award winners--talked to and with young researchers. The young researchers ranged from a few students just entering university to young faculty members, most being graduate students. They came from…
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A Natural Law for Rotating Galaxies: What Does This Mean for Dark Matter?
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
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The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips
Posted by Bogdan Arsintescu, Software Engineer & Sreenivas Gollapudi, Kostas Kollias, Tamas Sarlos and Andrew Tomkins, Research ScientistsAlgor...
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Logical Induction
MIRI is releasing a paper introducing a new model of deductively limited reasoning: “Logical induction,” authored by Scott Garrabrant, Tsvi Benson-Tilsen,
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A new algorithm for smoother 360 video viewing
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The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys
Petr Švenda, Matúš Nemec, Peter Sekan, Rudolf Kvašňovský, David Formánek, David Komárek, and Vashek Matyáš, Masaryk University
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Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
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Experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography
Posted by Matt Braithwaite, Software Engineer Quantum computers are a fundamentally different sort of computer that take advantage of aspec...
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Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
When the central heating takes effect I'll get up and make myself some tea and porridge to which I'll add some nuts and fruit. I'll switch on The World Service to hear the news, and then make a few phone calls about damp-proofing. And I'll probably plant the daffodil bulbs for Spring (it says on the packet they should…
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Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (2009)
When I posted about decals last week, a number of readers commented that they would be interested in posts about linear algebra as it…
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Backblaze Releases the Reed-Solomon Java Library for Free
Today we are releasing our latest open-source project: Backblaze Reed-Solomon Java library for erasure coding. Click for details on how to use and download.
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How Kalman Filters Work
This articles describes how Kalman filters and other state estimation techniques work, focusing on building intuition and pointing out good implementation techniques.
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Sorry ARIMA, but I’m Going Bayesian
When people think of “data science” they probably think of algorithms that scan large datasets to predict a customer’s next move or interpret unstructured te...
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Three and a half degrees of separation
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
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How convolutional neural networks see the world
Note: this post was originally written in January 2016. It is now very outdated. Please see this example of how to visualize convnet filters for an up-to-date alternative, or check out chapter 9 of my book "Deep Learning with Python (2nd edition)".
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2^74207281-1 is Prime
GIMPS has discovered a new Mersenne prime number: 2^74207281-1 is prime! Discovered: 2016 Jan 07
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Is there any point to the 12 times table?
Jon McLoone on why we learn times tables, whether knowing them to 12 is better than to 10, approximation multiplication, & education recommendations