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Which they accepted, no?
They don't vet the paid presentations.
Really? Wow.
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
The paper is quite straightforward and use only math from the first or second year of the university. If you understand the word "module" and have 15 minutes to loose, give it a try. Ignoring the reference to unrelated results about prime numbers, the main idea is that to check if a number is prime: 1) First check the remainder modulo 10, modulo 9 and modulo 24. This part is correct, but it's suspicious that they was…
Thanks for the summary. > First check the remainder modulo 10, modulo 9 and modulo 24. This makes zero sense already. First, 9=3 x 3, so checking for 3 is sufficient. (Checking for 9 might be easier in decimal, but why the hell would you do cryptography in decimal?) Then there’s the 24=2 x 2 x 2 x 3. Again, why not just use 6, but even worse, there’s no new factor here that’s not already covered by 10 and 9. (And as…
It looks like a pen and paper algorithm adapted to computing. Though even then it sucks. Mod 2, mod 5, mod 3 would eliminate more non primes and require less steps in pen and paper.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read your comment up to the last paragraph and was going to comment about “VP at Gartner ” and how these consulting companies (and Accenture, Deloitte, etc) run on bullshit but your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. I wonder what can be done to nuke these BS companies out of existence. Anyone has ideas?
Don’t invest in index funds. Vet the great companies by their technical leadership excellence and invest in them accordingly as long as the valuation is fair.
How did you come to this conclusion?
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#184I don't get why we give this so much attention. The authors are clearly kidding, mentally ill, or have a purpose beyond my understanding (this can't be the easiest way to launder money).
purpose beyond my understanding
Depending on the purpose, this might need more attention.
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I'm genuinely confused here... some audio equipment does actually sound better than other audio equipment. Are you referring to snake oil audio cable salesmen?
People differ about which point Audiophilia descends into nonsense. Obviously the magic stones and $5000 digital cables are ridiculous. I would probably argue for a more expansive definition. If you have to listen really, really hard to hear the enhancement piece of equipment gives then it's a waste of time and money. But hell, I grew up listening to music recorded onto a C90 through a $40 walkman.
Not just "listen very hard", but "listen very hard during a double blind test".
I remember a thread on avsforum.com where one individual has claimed he could hear the difference between cheap and expensive cables. Someone on the forum offered to travel to his house, do a double blind test, and post the results. The individual agreed, and the test was performed. The results of 20 tests were something like 12/8, where 12 was the number of times he mistook the $5 cable for the $900 one.
Well, that was kind of expected, however the most interesting part was that despite this clear evidence, the individual still refused to change his mind about importance of the "high quality" cables. It was a bizarre and eye opening experience for me to follow that development.
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#186Sometimes I think there should be a law that states products should be accurately described in advertisements.
If such a law were enacted, this product might be called Fucked Up Encryption. I say that because the first law of encryption is that you don't roll it yourself. You can build things that use known encryption in non-standard ways, and even that can lead to things that were unexpected - like side channel attacks.
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#187Here's a instagram post from the founder: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/vp/1ba57134a58455de0595824... Also look at his papers. He likes to draw a lot instead of doing math.
You're an asshole. Geometric relationships between numbers are doing math.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't post like this again. Your comment would be just fine without the first sentence.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I read your comment up to the last paragraph and was going to comment about “VP at Gartner ” and how these consulting companies (and Accenture, Deloitte, etc) run on bullshit but your last paragraph sums it up perfectly. I wonder what can be done to nuke these BS companies out of existence. Anyone has ideas?
Speaking of Deloitte, they were the auditors when the Spanish bank Bankia (then a newly formed conglomerate of 6 saving banks, with Caja Madrid as the cornerstone) went public. A report was produced by Deloitte saying that the financial statements provided by the bank were accurate and that going public was a viable strategy. The moment the bank went public their valuation went down and months later the Spanish centr…
You are mixing 2 different tasks that create your confusion:
- the tentative review of a proforma version of accounting used for the IPO, which Deloitte did not sign but where heavily discussed and to which Deloitte have access.
- the formal audit of the financial statements, for which Deloitte did NOT give the ok (Francisco Celma, the responsible partner, did not sign), as it was not given all the information (but they did have items to work on, just not everything needed).
Rodrigo Rato, then Bankia’s CEO, pushed Celma to sign without having reviewed all info; when he refused, Rato went forward with the IPO nonetheless.
Also I think it is Celma in particular, and not Deloitte as a company, who is being sued (or is the one legally liable, irrespective of the suit; can’t really remember )
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do I understand those Twitter threads correctly in that BH security removed you from the room? The heck?
Yes, and it makes sense that I was thrown out. It's not like the security guard knows the talk is bullshit. He just saw a guy (me) yelling that, "all you employees of this guy should quit and find real jobs!" I think that was an appropriate response in the moment. The true failure happened when Blackhat decided it was ok to accept money from a con man.
Fair enough, I naively assumed that security at BH had people embedded that would be able to make that call. But yeah, agree on all fronts then, thanks for standing up to him.
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don’t invest in index funds. Vet the great companies by their technical leadership excellence and invest in them accordingly as long as the valuation is fair.
How did you come to this conclusion?
We live in a world where great products win over constant bullshitting on the market, but the right allocation of money can speed things up significantly.