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ineiti
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About ineiti
https://people.epfl.ch/linus.gasser?lang=en
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Comment #47248310
https://postquantum.com/security-pqc/cybersecurity-apocalyps... TLDR: No Longer explanation: guy behind a company selling PQ algorithms from a new "University" which span up 4 mont…
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Comment #46972143
Very inspiring talk how to organize data for federalized systems.
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Comment #43868070
No ls and no cd?
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Comment #42697874
Wanna learn how traefik _really_ works? I summarized my two days of learning to configure traefik for simple web-services, multiple hostnames, and more advanced configurations. Plu…
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Comment #41323927
Because you're in an exam, and you cannot really draw a straw. So you have to choose a number randomly, and pretend you chose the short straw if it's a 0. And then hope you're the …
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Comment #39862449
The last point, proof of personhood, should of course be done with parties :) https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/irgc/spotlight-on-risk-...
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Comment #33997246
Replace the resistor of the LED with 0Ohm and switch the LED on. Nice animation :)
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Comment #33966498
True - nowadays, `Eight Megabytes Always Continuous Swapping` is a feature, not a bug...
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Comment #32506995
Failure is relative - perhaps they decided that there is still some hope. At least I would switch regularly between "oh, let's give it up" and "no, there is still hope" :) Perhaps …
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Comment #31491172
The wayback machine has you: https://web.archive.org/web/20220524092913/https://www.xinji... Unfortunately the documents haven't been saved before the site went down :(
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Comment #31041951
Point 2 is a simplification that borders on wrong: you don't "wrap around if it's too big" - the point operation will always cross the curve (except for the zero point)! You "wrap …
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Comment #30415714
There should be a way to share our shapes/minute in Twitter :)
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Comment #29959244
Wow - this is a really good description of Bitcoin. Similar to the tweet that said "Whenever I read 'decentralized', I think 'unregulated'."
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Comment #28364531
That looks awesome! Do you have any evaluation of the speed? is this based on a paper? is there more documentation?
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Comment #27703677
In Switzerland there was a vote 2 weeks ago about whether we want to support a law to reduce CO2 output by our population. The law was very clear how the money would be spent: impr…
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Comment #26899796
Interesting, but why does the "Check" use a handmade hashing algorithm that is just summing up all bytes? A much safer implementation would be to take the sha256 of the key and onl…
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Comment #26780545
I just learnt this term. And also saw that this example is already in the Wikipedia article ;)
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Comment #26386152
In fact I wanted to point to the following... Googling 'hash' put me to the wrong page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
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Comment #26386119
Did you consider something like the following to speed up the calculation? This method can go forward _really_ fast. Not sur e if it can also go backward... https://pzemtsov.github…
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Comment #25831854
You might be right for single-casual illnesses like a broken leg, CoVid-19, Tuberculosis, and others. But it's a whole other thing when it comes to more complex illnesses. Having b…
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Comment #25818895
Chrome seems to compile before it runs it. Only Firefox takes some lines before it runs it as fast as Chrome. Now I wonder why it takes so long to do the JIT? I always thought that…
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Comment #16603066
They did use our permissioned skipchain available on: https://github.com/dedis/cothority and ran some nodes on a server. Instead of burning 200kWh for one transaction, a voting con…
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Comment #14325033
We were working on a more decentralized solution here: https://github.com/dedis/cothority/tree/master/cisc - unfortunately the update is still 1 month away... This system uses a se…