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This is off-topic, but at the top of the readme is this:

> The name is somewhat of a poor choice, but it was available on npm.

npm has supported scoped packages [0] for years now, and it's a fantastic solution to this problem, as well as solving many others (like typosquatting in many cases).

I know this package is already named, but I really urge people to use scoped packages more.

[0] https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope
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It is somewhat unclear from his writing but did he compare this metaprogramming solution against OpenBlas or Atlas or just the reference BLAS/LAPACK implementation? If I was trying to do any significant linear algebra computations, I would definitely first try an optimized BLAS/LAPACK solution first.
Star Wars (and pretty much all modern tales) splits good and evil along ideological lines, as in the "baddies" are all about oppression and rule by fear, whereas the "goodies" are all about the power of love. It's so universal and ingrained in modern society that nobody seems to recognize it anymore.

In modern story telling, you have the following major "good" and "evil" types:

- The pure good

- The good who is tempted by the dark side, but is eventually redeemed.

- The good who is tempted by the dark side and is forever corrupted.

- The rogue who does good by shady means so that the major characters can have a clear conscience.

- The evil who is redeemed by love and turns to the good side.

- The evil who is irredeemable.

You'll also notice over the past few decades how the "goodies" eventually stopped killing, and eventually even harming others, even in self defense (Remember the 80s, when Han shot first?). It's always the evil one hoisted on his own petard.

So in modern stories, the goodies live by a code of zen-like purity as a means to prove that goodness always defeats badness without sullying itself (except in side-stories about the rogue characters).

So what do you have in Saul vs David? A jealous and envious brother whose neuroses drive him to the edge. Is he evil? Does he revel in his evilness? Does he pat himself on the back for doing his share of evil this day like Darth Vader? No. He considers himself inherently good, but hard done by, and wants to even the scale.

Now let's look at Death:

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

So, Death is a heavenly being, given power (by Yahweh) to kill. Is he evil? He's there for a very specific purpose, and as far as I can remember from the texts, expresses no opinion, nor does the text ascribe any morality to him.
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The code could use some work. I have no idea what's going on L18.

https://github.com/developit/greenlet/blob/master/greenlet.j...
> 1. There have no vulnerabilities in the past.

I don't know man, the MIT Digital Currency Initiative found a pretty bad one last August:

https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...

>  the IOTA developers had written their own hash function, Curl, and it produced collisions (when different inputs hash to the same output). Once we developed our attack, we could find collisions using commodity hardware within just a few minutes, and forge signatures on IOTA payments. We informed the IOTA developers, they patched their system, and we wrote a vulnerability report
I've followed a bit the zyn-fusion project. Apparently, you have opened the sources of the new GUI just a few weeks ago and before that, the binaries could be bought.

Has this funding model for opensource (releasing binaries, and then waiting for some time to release the sources) been a success? Have you been able to generate a decent revenue with the crowdfunding efforts?
True but beside the point. "Decoherence" can't explain why those two cases are indistinguishable, unless you define it as a distinct phenomenon i.e. a collapse.

(Scare quotes because people use "decoherence" to mean multiple different things)
BitConnect, a literal Ponzi scheme that was repeatedly flagged to newbies as a Ponzi scheme they should avoid, had a $2.5 billion market cap last month before collapsing.

While IOTA boosters probably have a story they believe that justifies the hype in their mind, just because it’s worth $6 billion in this market doesn’t mean they necessarily have a good one.

For what it’s worth, of all the crypto people I follow that I consider smart or savvy, none of them are IOTA bulls.

Also, the IOTA founder comes off as extremely immature on twitter each time someone trashes it. Even if all the criticism is FUD, his reaction alone is enough to keep me away.
Probably you need 3 or 4 semesters of Algebra classes in the university to understand the details. I'll try to explain the main ideas, but this is not my specialization so I don't remember the details :(. Too much Analysis in my life...

A possible way to extend the integer is to consider the Gaussian Integers, that are the numbers a+bi, where a and b are integers and i^2=-1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integer They have an unique factorization and primes. Some of the normal primes are still primes, for example 3, 7, ... and some of the normal primes are split, foe example 5 = (2+i) * (2-i) . Now 2+i and 2-i are the new primes. Anyway, you still have primes and unique factorization and can live happily there.

Another extensions are a+b.i.sqrt(d) aka Z[sqrt(-d)]. In the case d=2 and d=3 you still have primes and unique factorization. But if you consider d=5 or more, you don't have primes or unique factorization (see for example https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1141412/mathbb-z-sq... , d=14 is apparently also a good value to get easy examples)

But this examples are extensions of the integer numbers in the complex numbers. You can make similar examples with the real version, i.e. the numbers a+b.sqrt(d) aka Z[sqrt(d)] I tried to use google to find an example of where there is no unique factorization, but I failed. I suspect that perhaps there is an easy way to proof that all of them but I didn't find it now and I'm too lazy to try to prove it. I'm not sure.

Anyway, when you add more roots, you have more problems. You can use the numbers a+b.cubicroot(d)+c.cubicroot(d^2) and try to analyze if they have unique factorization. This is related for example to the proof of the Last Fermat Theorem. The idea is to extend the integers to some more general set of numbers, and if you assume that there are primes and unique factorization the proof is not very difficult. For small exponents the extension use only square roots or cubic roots and it's not too difficult. But for big exponents the idea of unique factorization of the extended numbers fails. Try to look at the history part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

So ... I don't remember the details now, but I suspect that for a general (algebraic) number it is not possible to have a good generalization of primes.
On the one hand this may help certain companies that focus on limited use of customer data thrive in Europe. On the other hand it’s one more tick against Europe for global companies deciding where to invest so expect to see some big downside for the region too as companies and investors focus elsewhere.
Yep, nobody gets fired for picking Intel, so to speak.
Until the last couple of years, the manufacturers all used their own electronics, but now all the bikes must use Magneti Marelli electronics and must figure out how to use those APIs to control spin and throttle. Last season, Yamaha couldn't get this right with its chassis, and its riders couldn't make the tyres last the race with decent grip.
Whether there is an alternative revenue stream to be had.
Wayland may be ready for default in Ubuntu and Fedora, but they clearly didn't consider it ready for LTS. They have already said the next non-LTS version will still have Wayland as default.
DCI's report: https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl/blob/master/vuln-iot...
>Maybe I should finally quit it.

I did. You should, it will improve your peace of mind. Also Facebook is a culture swallowing monster.
You can take the "precog" metaphor used in Minority Report and replace it what's actually happening - dragnet surveillance combined with predictive modeling algorithms to assess each individual's threat level. This is happening so openly that the DHS have done a public Kaggle competition to improve their algos for body scanners at airports. Now extrapolate a very short distance from there and think about what they're doing that's classified. Even the most unimaginative of us can see what's happening here.

Over the past several years I've seen the automatic reflex response to this concern go from "well if you've got nothing to hide" to "well, I mean they're not watching me or you specifically, they don't have the man power". Well, you're right, but not for the reason you think. The fact is they don't need man power any longer. The algos are watching you.
And then yet another developer showed there are way better fixes than what intel proposed [1]. So he was correct after all.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/23/25
>the companies that are mainly impacted by these laws are US companies.

Any company who handles personal data is impacted. Facebook and Google are not the only ones which do. European online shops and banks also have to comply.

Just because Facebook and Google generate the most press on this issue doesn't mean it is an attack on them in particular. Privacy and data concerns are real societal issues. Tackling them is absolutely necessary and the EU is doing a good job by ruling that we own our data.
While I think they should, Chipotle does not use screens for their overhead menus
True.

A lot of people I know that powerlift do 4 x 800mg for 5 days or so. I think the thinking is to give the injury a "blast" of ibuprofen to bring the swelling down fast, rather than a lower dose for a longer period.
Almost all of the things that drive us and govern our lives are based entirely on the approval of other humans or our biological needs; the approval of our parents, peer pressure, love, sex, academic grades, job, income, social/political/professional standing, or religion and the idea of deities, and even the worth/value of our contribution to society..

Would any of these matter at all to a different intelligent species? Say, a hypothetical species without any gender. Poof. More than half of human values and aspirations become meaningless.

"Happiness" that is to last for more than a fleeting moment depends entirely on what we choose to believe. That is some pretty flimsy grounds.
Getting a motorcycle to change direction is more than just actuating a control, body position, centre of gravity and using the legs to push down on the pegs are all things racers do.
Yes, MotoGP allows traction control. Like all technical innovations it has led to a change in riders priorities and skills. Some people dislike it, but overall it's not accepted I'd say. Personally I've found it interesting to watch riders adapt there riding style to the new technology.
> So how comes, we are the only industry taking a lot of overtime all the time?

Have you never met a game developer?
1. The vulnrability existed in their active codebase and network - only AFTER the research team contacted IOTA with the working exploit did they shut the entire (centralized) network down to patch the code.

“In 2017, leaving your crypto algorithm vulnerable to
differential cryptanalysis is a rookie mistake. It says
that no one of any calibre analyzed their system, and that
the odds that their fix makes the system secure is low,”

Bruce Schneier, renowned security technologist,
about IOTA when we shared our attack.

We discovered a vulnerability in IOTA after reviewing
their code on GitHub in July. We disclosed what we found
to the IOTA team on July 14th, and have been in contact
with them since then as we discovered new issues and
exploits. IOTA issued a patch that addresses the
vulnerabilities we found on August 7th. IOTA no longer has
the vulnerabilities we found, they have been fixed. To
learn more about the details of our attack, you can view
the full disclosure and review our attack examples.

https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl/blob/master/vuln-iot...

https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl

2. If every other cryptocurrency software team can impliment seed generation in their wallet software, why does IOTA refuse to?

3. Please read this comment from the CEO of IOTA, David Sønstebø on why he doesn't care if you lose money using IOTA: https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7gwl38/hello_gu...
This is completely untrue. How much does Tim pay you to spread these lies?
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[edit] I had a bug in my code; it does seem that the compiler is not picking up constants at compiletime. That is to say, it's not precomputing the final value at compiletime based on the value from those matrices.

Here's how I modified the code to make sure: https://pastebin.com/iG21pTiP
As an anecdote of just how powerful this can be, I once wrote a prototype of a simulation (written in C) that used a lot of integer divisions and needed to be run many times with different parameters.

As a quick and dirty hack that took about half hour to implement, I decided to just have the program as a template string and the parameters be substituted in by a python script that called GCC. To the amazement of a very sceptical friend, the result was a 5x speedup.

A lot of this speedup was consistent with replacing the integer divisions with multiplicative inverses, but also merging constants in a way that would have made things quite unreadable. I was quite impressed with how far GCC had gone.

Considering each instance of this simulation ran for tens of minutes, it was well worth compilation time of a few seconds. It kept the code really simple, too.
Ironically, the chances of actually having domestic conveyancing done by an actual solicitor is pretty small - it's mostly done by paralegals (domestic conveyancing is very much at the low end of the legal market - with corporate at the high end).

Edit: Not to say that domestic conveyancing can't be complex but the fees are so low for the actual conveyancing part (rather than the sales part) that you are unlikely to get a very comprehensive job done. I've heard utter horror stories of what can happen with conveyancing when it goes wrong....
That's actually why I prefer adblockers.
Each of the worlds ends up distinct, e.g. all the air molecules end up in slightly different positions. Worlds that different don't interfere with each other. (This is predicted by the math, the math is the justification.)
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There is also Moe's which offers guac for free, but the difference is that they give you 2 tbsp instead of the giant serving Chipotle does, which people might prefer to have and dont mind paying for.
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> Sergey Ivancheglo claims to have built a time machine http://come-from-beyond.com/about-me/

How modest. That guy needs help.
I think that's why it uses `volatile double` in stead of `double`?
Lack of choice. In north america we generally have binary product choices: andriod or iphone, the expensive iphone or the less expensive. We lack the massive variety of products that is common in asia. So we dont get into the weeds of specifications as much. We pick products based on brand, tribal loyalty, and social factors. Those dont need as much text to win a sale.
What’s even worse is that they claimed the flaws were deliberate, and a method of ‘copy protection’, where the flaws were somehow avoided in their full codebase but would cause any competitor that copied their open source code to suffer the flaws.

Smells like a BS excuse to me, and if true, perhaps an even bigger red flag as it strikes me as a very unethical move that is antithetical to open source ideology.
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> And about nuclear bombs, well you can argue that they prevented World War 3.

Absent a control you can't even argue that.

And it might still happen.
Well, as secure as the blockchain is, it's still susceptible to the good ol' 5$ wrench bruteforce attack https://xkcd.com/538/
I'm amazed on how Intel's stock price still keeps going UP, despite all these problems... just WOW.
I think this law will force people building AI's and ML systems to innovate more and be more thoughtful of how they use peoples data.

Companies like DeepMind are already showing that collecting every data point under the sun is unnecessary, and that ML systems can be built with privacy in mind. Anyone that can't be bothered to put the effort in can, quite frankly, die at the hands of the market.
You should really read my first link and https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/956445618381246464

The MIT-DCI are not credible..
Only if anyone's willing to take Tether at a non-zero price.
It would be great if you could post the details that you found in that Bible somewhere so that interested genealogists could pick them up. Most English church records go back to the 1530s or so; anything earlier than that relies on these sorts of private documents.
My thoughts exactly, though it should be noted that the architecture astronauts are more common in customer facing software. In most backend projects I've been involved in, the final state of the project is so well known, all different corner cases are well covered by the chosen architecture. For frontend clients however, the architectural choices mostly end up being tech debt.

Sometimes I prefer "and then, and then, and then" over "sign up async observer, send through our java-redux, oops forgot to implement async actions, hack in an and then and then and then case into it" -solutions.
As you mentioned, that is not what I asked, and your answer is not relevant to the inherent weakness of treading on the edge of weakness in encryption when even those specifying secure key length guidelines must rethink what is secure.
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Also, it seems the author solved a triangular system. LAPACK has special routines for that. Were they used?

LAPACK is typically optimized for larger systems, not 5 unknowns. Also, 5 is not a great number for vectorized operations - it might even be beneficial to zero/one pad the matrix.

Optimized LAPACK is often 5-10x faster than «basic LAPACK».

BLAS/LAPACK was originally written in the 70s/80s and sometimes unroll loops to the tune of 5 or 7 - it made sense then. Not so much these days.

I didn’t read the article in detail, but there appear to be a lot of holes in it.
> On the one hand this may help certain companies that focus on limited use of customer data thrive in Europe. On the other hand it’s one more tick against Europe for global companies deciding where to invest so expect to see some big downside for the region too as companies and investors focus elsewhere.

What global tech company can really afford not to be in Europe? Google? Facebook? Twitter?
Deeper dive:
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That's funny. I am 58 and pretty much felt the same way all my life. Then a year or so ago when I finally got serious about losing the weight that snuck onto my frame from 45 on, I started a low-no carb diet. Suddenly Avacados became my friend. I now eat them in salads multiple times a week. You are going to be surprised. They are quite tasty!!
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Realistically, the benefits are better ad targeting and improved addictiveness of the platform. Iotw, no benefit for me.

Sure in the best case you can do a lot of good with such data. But that would probably need the data to be open to researchers, not in some corporate silo somewhere.

And in the worst case, pervasive surveillance data can do a lot of harm. Just ask yourself what an organization like the Stasi could have done with that kind of data.
It is amazing how on the one hand people can detest Nazis and Soviets saying things like "I can't believe they could have been so stupid to have gone along with that" and then on the other hand, aid and abet the police state in a Kaggle competition of all things! I know it is naive of me to think that if I don't assist that it won't happen because someone will step up if for no other reason than bragging rights.

A long time ago I made a decision about my career and that was that I would not work for the MIC. It was a tough choice at times because so much US industry is involved with government one way or another and even private companies have governments as their major customers so it is all intertwined. Not all government is bad, though, but the shit like body scanners and all that--that's your technocratic police state writ large.

I don't imagine the future is going to be very rosy. It is top down control forever.
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Custom crypto primitives (ciphers, hashes, etc.) is a big red flag to me unless the designers are cryptographers.

I know a fair bit about crypto. I would implement (and have implemented) higher order constructions like encrypted and authenticated protocols according to design patterns and principles put forward by competent cryptographers. I would never ever even attempt to design a cipher or a cryptographically strong hash unless I were just playing around, and would never label my work as anything other than such. Even trying to innovate on constructions (like how to combine a MAC with a cipher) would make me very nervous and I'd seek the advice of a pro.

Multiply that nervousness by ten if the system is a cryptocurrency, which has a big "hack me" sign on it with a massive cash bounty.

Actual deep cryptography such as cipher design is an area where truly extreme and very esoteric expertise is required to even get started, and where the consequences of a failure are pretty dire. Even people who can design ciphers are conservatives when they implement real secure systems, only using those ciphers that have been through years of academic cryptanalysis. This area is very different from other areas of computer science and math.
There are also various combinations of coursework that qualify (x semester hours of physics, y semester hours of engineering or chemistry, etc...). It's in the patent exam application docs.

One interesting and controversial one is that mathematics courses are excluded from patent prep (i.e., mathematics is specifically excluded from the list of courses that qualify you for the patent bar[1]).

https://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/grb.pdf

https://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/usptovsmath.html

[1] perhaps this is why mathematics dressed up as something else often gets patented, because the patent bar specifically and deliberately excludes people with strong math backgrounds from the profession.
There needs to be a j in the exit condition of the inner loop of the clobber function.
Put this crap all on a segregated network. It's how we did it 20 years ago, are people still making the same mistakes? Were firewalls not common even 30 years ago?
AI is further enabling oppression in China which is already arguably the world's largest surveillance state. For example, using AI and the government's ID database, crosswalk cameras are now able to facially identify "chronic j-walkers." [1] The concerning part of this is the implication that these profiles don't go away. In the status quo, watch lists already exist, but I'm afraid that as AI technology becomes more accessible it will only further increase abuse and discrimination against "potential offenders" identified by the system.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-all-seeing-surveillance-sta...