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Why is that required? The whole point of zero knowledge proofs is that it can run on untrusted devices.

You can verify in limited memory by repeatedly verifying modulo a few small integers. If that works, then by Chinese remainder theorem the main result also holds.

Besides the data being signed as already mentioned, the protocol is interactive and custom to passport documents. So you can’t just put it on any programmable NFC tag. I also doubt…

It’s well known GPUs are good at cryptography. Starting with hash functions (e.g. crypto mining) but also zero knowledge proofs and multi party computation.

And now they sell gold-plated optical connectors.

Did you verify this through disassembly? These loops can still be replaced by a closed form expression and I wouldn’t be surprised if LLVM figured this out.

For me it means I can fork the repo and start hacking on the code immediately, and it will have reasonable quality. With C++/Python and even Node I often find myself wasting half a…

It actually uses a lot of modern cryptography (zero knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, decentralized consensus, etc) to avoid exactly that.

The first one IIRC with Geogebra, all the rest with Matplotlib. The design goal was to maximize on 'data-ink ratio'.

Correct. I was too short in my comment. It's explained in the article: without loss of generality you can call one of the two points the 'north pole' and then the other one will be…

The distance between two uniform random points on an n-sphere clusters around the equator. The article shows a histogram of the distribution in fig. 11. While it looks Gaussian, it…

Exactly, and this is in my experience what most Rust code ends up looking like. It compromises a bit on generality and (potential) performance to achieve better readability and suc…

Why stop there and not go all the way to pub fn read(path: Path) -> Bytes { File::open(path).read_to_end() }

Adding to this great list: batch processing inputs can allow you to get more throughput at expense of latency.

Why should we weigh by the number of different digits? I.e. is there an argument why the cost of a single digit is linearly proportional to the number of values it can hold? To me …

> The exchange rate for the WorldCoin was last updated on October 21, 2019. This is a different token. And I wouldn't trust a site with such outdated rates.

It’s also the only high production game with native MacOS & M1 support I could find. I got the early access just to see what M1 GPU can do and was impressed.

This is essentially the Birthday paradox. You need a quadratically better false match rate to deduplicate than to authenticate. It’s also why Worldcoin went with Irises (highest en…

WebKit was more or less ‘stolen’ from KDE’s KHTML and KJS. They forked it, developed it in secret, and did not publish anything until it diverged so far from source that it could n…

I started reading the ‘crypto’ in cryptocurrency as in cryptozoology. It makes more sense that way.

> carbon dioxide You probably mean nitrous oxide (N₂O). Both are sold in small aluminum canisters for culinary use. CO₂ is acidic and is quite unpleasant to inhale. N₂O is listed i…

I wrote this intro for a friend and since then more people have found it useful: https://xn--2-umb.com/22/approximation If you want a proper textbook, I recommend L.N. Trefethen (2…

"Vegetative electron microscopy" is likely a poor rephrasing of "low-energy electron microscopy", which is a thing [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy_electron_micro…

> It's worth noting that Cayman has virtually no Crypto because of the above. Many reputable crypto projects I know are set up as Cayman Foundations. For the same reasons: great re…

> Yes they should. A deposit liability arises from the fact that they received an asset in a deposit transaction. Liabilities and assets aren't mutually exclusive in any transactio…