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maginx

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    Comment #43356599

    I'm curious about the 10x via implementation in Go - couldn't it have been realized otherwise? Finding the hotspots, reimplementing them using better algorithms, if necessary move …

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    Comment #43164460

    That's not my experience - I've found a handful of accepted and verified bugs in major commercial compilers and all were in the codegen/backend, and the code to be generated was qu…

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    Comment #43162473

    Around 10 years ago I found a JIT bug in a JDK from a big Java vendor. A new version of a web application server had been applied. The production application crashed after around 3…

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    Comment #42966331

    I agree - I don't know what field it formally is, but computer science it is not. It is also related to information retrieval aka "Google skills", problem presentation, 'theory of …

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    Comment #42910348

    Agreed - I've worked with PKI in many years, and know why the various systems work...in terms of "why you can decrypt again", not in terms of why it is secure (no other way to decr…

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    Comment #42910210

    I feel exactly the same, and have also implemented it backwards and forwards. I've thought about it in my sleep, trying to recall how it REALLY works. Happens every few years ;-) I…

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    Comment #42771501

    Probably what was built was a Fusor. There's tons of instructions how to build one ( https://fusor.net/board/ ) and seemingly there's a lot of focus on how "young" the builders of …

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    Comment #42677262

    Yes the whole tone of voice is typical of LLM's as well.

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    Comment #42675991

    I don't think so. Consider "It didn’t just attempt to guess the chosen animal but also learned from its mistakes, adding new questions and answers to its knowledge base. What’s mor…

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    Comment #42672128

    In two places the article states that the original game had the ability to save the updated tree ("it had the ability to save progress and load it during the next run" and "It is a…

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    Comment #42597886

    I also think search engines sometimes remove results based on subject requests - at least I've seen such notices in Google search results, that some hits were removed due to 'right…

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    Comment #42590618

    I think it’s very human to be curious about the cause, but it can also be inappropriate, though some ways are more harmful than others. I've seen people ask very direct questions w…

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    Comment #42590183

    The size/computational complexity of usage also only grows as a polynomial with RSA. But even with this in mind, a quantum computer that can crack in polynomial time is still probl…

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    Comment #42590102

    Encountering this by chance is exceedingly unlikely of course, if p and q are randomly generated. In probability terms it amounts to the first half of p (or q) all being zero (apar…

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    Comment #42590046

    I've seen many implementations that relied on iterating (or rather, they used a prime sieve but it amounts to the same thing in terms of the skewed distribution). While maybe not a…

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    Comment #42590020

    As I understand it, the number of rounds needed (for a given acceptable failure probability) goes down the larger the number is. Note (very importantly) that this is assuming you a…

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    Comment #42590003

    I still see a lot of RSA especially for encryption. While ECC can be used for encryption it is more convoluted and much less supported in hardware, software etc. than RSA decryptio…

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    Comment #42589996

    The performance of this can matter in some scenarios. In embedded systems, smart cards etc., generating the primes can take a significant amount of time (15-20 seconds typical) eve…