Thanks for the information. This sounds like something I would use HKDF for. But, to your point, it's nice to be able to build the design with a fewer number of primitives, and likely more performant, too.
The edit window passed, so let me add: where and why one would use an extensible-output function in particular.
The nice thing about Blum-Blum-Shub or Blum-Micali is that they come with a proof of security. Even then, they tend to be impractical, due to performance and side channels. This one is missing the most important part,…
I freely admit, this is "smell" based speculation.
Can anyone share real-world examples of where and why one would use these, please?
Is there a parser ambiguity/confusion vector here?
After a few dumb accidents involving header pins, I've come to the conclusion that exposed male header pins on my desk are a hazard.
The unemployment rate statistic is a bit misleading, because people who drop out of work permanently don't factor into it.
In most enterprises, the choice isn't Github vs Buildkite, it's Github vs Github plus Buildkite. That's what makes it so hard to pay for a separate CI vendor that costs more, when your source code hosting vendor already…
If you do it correctly, you've reinvented Fisher-Yates[1]. If you do it wrong, you've reinvented this unnamed, broken algorithm[2], instead. But the issue in the article isn't application of pseudorandom numbers. It's…
Juggling all the fragments inside the database, garbage collecting all the unused ones, and maintaining consistency are all quite challenging in this use case.
There's an Android app called GPSLogger.[1] It does exactly what it says on the tin. Runners use it to track their own progress. Photographers use it to geotag their own photos. The thing is, GPS access as a permission…
Human failures have some, but not total, correlation with each other. A big fear of autonomous driving is some severe failure with total correlation - the whole fleet does the same dumb thing at the same time, in the…
What are some believable but wrong proofs of FLT? Wikipedia also claims that there were historically a lot of them[1], but doesn't provide examples. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Prizes...
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
It was new-ish, and it barely caught on, only in some digital camera lines for some brands (Nikon and Sony). If anything, plenty of prosumers were annoyed that they now had to buy new cards to use the second slot. The…
The limitation in doing anything interesting with this type of AI is always going to be that the simulation has limits on accuracy and fidelity, and you reach the limits of the simulation before you get anything…
I've heard this a few times. By what mechanism do the investors do the forcing, assuming that the company is early enough that the founder aligned board is still in the majority?
Is this gonna be Turnitin[1] all over again? [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin...
The SD and micro SD form factors are not the most robust or reliable. It would be nice to have a next step up form factor. In some ways, that's the motivation for CF Express Type B (and XQD before it), as popularized in…
Public transit is ideal, but electrification of private cars is still significant harm reduction.
Not to mention child processes in computing and all the things that need to be done to them.
Does this actually work? I always find it strange when a system prompt tells an LLM to do or not do something that requires domain knowledge to understand. Like, how does the underlying base model at all understand what…
At the risk of being overly reductive, isn't this exactly the expected behavior: With ECS on EC2, the EC2 VM is a security boundary, and the container is not?
No, I'm saying that prestige schools are a symptom of a broader socioeconomic failing - something about how power is obtained and maintained, which I struggle to articulate properly. Shutting down prestige schools does…
Thanks for the information. This sounds like something I would use HKDF for. But, to your point, it's nice to be able to build the design with a fewer number of primitives, and likely more performant, too.
The edit window passed, so let me add: where and why one would use an extensible-output function in particular.
The nice thing about Blum-Blum-Shub or Blum-Micali is that they come with a proof of security. Even then, they tend to be impractical, due to performance and side channels. This one is missing the most important part,…
I freely admit, this is "smell" based speculation.
Can anyone share real-world examples of where and why one would use these, please?
Is there a parser ambiguity/confusion vector here?
After a few dumb accidents involving header pins, I've come to the conclusion that exposed male header pins on my desk are a hazard.
The unemployment rate statistic is a bit misleading, because people who drop out of work permanently don't factor into it.
In most enterprises, the choice isn't Github vs Buildkite, it's Github vs Github plus Buildkite. That's what makes it so hard to pay for a separate CI vendor that costs more, when your source code hosting vendor already…
If you do it correctly, you've reinvented Fisher-Yates[1]. If you do it wrong, you've reinvented this unnamed, broken algorithm[2], instead. But the issue in the article isn't application of pseudorandom numbers. It's…
Juggling all the fragments inside the database, garbage collecting all the unused ones, and maintaining consistency are all quite challenging in this use case.
There's an Android app called GPSLogger.[1] It does exactly what it says on the tin. Runners use it to track their own progress. Photographers use it to geotag their own photos. The thing is, GPS access as a permission…
Human failures have some, but not total, correlation with each other. A big fear of autonomous driving is some severe failure with total correlation - the whole fleet does the same dumb thing at the same time, in the…
What are some believable but wrong proofs of FLT? Wikipedia also claims that there were historically a lot of them[1], but doesn't provide examples. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Prizes...
Non-profits similarly have a problem that also hounds for-profits: Fundraising as a separate activity detracts from the primary mission, and balancing between the two is a struggle.
It was new-ish, and it barely caught on, only in some digital camera lines for some brands (Nikon and Sony). If anything, plenty of prosumers were annoyed that they now had to buy new cards to use the second slot. The…
The limitation in doing anything interesting with this type of AI is always going to be that the simulation has limits on accuracy and fidelity, and you reach the limits of the simulation before you get anything…
I've heard this a few times. By what mechanism do the investors do the forcing, assuming that the company is early enough that the founder aligned board is still in the majority?
Is this gonna be Turnitin[1] all over again? [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin...
The SD and micro SD form factors are not the most robust or reliable. It would be nice to have a next step up form factor. In some ways, that's the motivation for CF Express Type B (and XQD before it), as popularized in…
Public transit is ideal, but electrification of private cars is still significant harm reduction.
Not to mention child processes in computing and all the things that need to be done to them.
Does this actually work? I always find it strange when a system prompt tells an LLM to do or not do something that requires domain knowledge to understand. Like, how does the underlying base model at all understand what…
At the risk of being overly reductive, isn't this exactly the expected behavior: With ECS on EC2, the EC2 VM is a security boundary, and the container is not?
No, I'm saying that prestige schools are a symptom of a broader socioeconomic failing - something about how power is obtained and maintained, which I struggle to articulate properly. Shutting down prestige schools does…