Holly crap, you mentioned FIPS and the first thing that came to my mind was.. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/186-5/final

What MIT as academic institution done to this kid was terrible..

.."too big to fail" playbook. Instead "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" we will have "Chancellor on brink of first bailout to AI companies"

Happy Birthday, Comrade Snowden. I hope you’re still fighting for individual freedom in Mother Russia, just as you did in Western society.

I used to have a lot of lucid dreams and sleep paralysis. It’s true that fear is usually the first emotion that shows up, often in different forms. For example, if I watched a wildlife documentary the day before, my dream or nightmare might be about being hunted by a crocodile. After you get past the fear, the dream tends to turn into something else. I guess that’s just a reflection of how our primitive brain works. The funny thing is that, although through language (both natural language and computer languages) we can share our perception of the world, our experiences are still ultimately subjective. P.S. I’m currently reading Jason’s thesis on Bitcoin power projection, and I’m on this page.

in my nix research as asked about https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 in nix storage

Cognitive Dissonance fixed..

I remember all those shitcoiner buzzwords and PR phrases, like “the Internet’s Global Computer.” In computer science, foundational inventions are much rarer than creative marketing campaigns. That’s why Satoshi’s paper has more than 40,000 citations on Google Scholar, while most of those other projects have none.

Every programming language can be constructed using just three logical gates: AND, OR, and NOT. Because humans struggle to process machine code composed of zeros and ones, we invented abstractions that more closely resemble natural language. Historically, in computer science, these programming languages were designed to eliminate ambiguity by leveraging the deterministic nature of logic and mathematics. However, LLMs are probabilistic, meaning they will inevitably hallucinate at some point, even if you set the temperature to zero. My experience so far using LLMs for programming is that it forces you to think more like an architect or a product owner rather than a junior coder.

Is Web3 an official new standard from the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), or is it merely a marketing buzzword? Personally, I believe true decentralization finds its roots in OpenPGP. I particularly appreciated Werner Koch's talk at a Debian conference years ago; similar to Hal Finney, Koch is a maintainer of OpenPGP RFCs. In his presentation, he explored the history of GnuPG while addressing the tension between centralization and decentralization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkwd7Vcq7d4

Automatica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdqazixuRY