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Seems quite advanced for a '88 educational toy. For comparison, I got a VTech SmartStart for xmas in the early '90s and it had just a short 14-segment display line and could mainly…

I imagine G.H. Hardy might be like: e is the unique base of a logarithm function, ln(n), so so that the average distance between prime numbers less than n, converges proportionally…

To me it was only when we got to radioactive decay in physics it clicked to me why the particular "e" was special and useful. Background: exp(x) was introduced as the inverse to lo…

Thanks a lot! :)

This conversion O(2^n) -> O(2^n/2) only applies to Grover's algorithm which can be used to break symmetric crypto (AES etc.). This is not the usual concern in the context of quantu…

Yes absolutely: If both security elements fail (quantum computers that break classical crypto appear, and the supposed post-quantum element turns out to be insecure as well) then y…

Agreed. While manufacturers do show an impressive increase in the number of noisy qubits, we still have yet to see a demonstration of quantum error correction at anywhere near the …

Many-worlds etc. does not have such a limit. There are interpretations that posit that collapse is triggered by the system reaching a certain size (also GRW theory etc.). Such inte…

True - on the other hand, that fear/principle could be applied to all algorithms that could theoretically be broke in the future. There's a lot of uncertainty concerning the scalab…

I'm not aware of any production-grade libs of these algorithms, but they might exist. While NIST did pick Dilthium as among the winners in summer 2022, it still hasn't been fully s…

That algorithm was never chosen as a final candidate, unlike Dilithium and Kyber. Nevertheless, it remains intriguing because it advanced significantly in the competition until thi…

Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to see my project trending here on Hacker News. It's a pure toy implementation inspired by the paper and its reference. While it aligns with all the pr…