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American with bittersweet memories of living in a shining city on a hill. Mathematician. Give em hell Devils. Go Navy. русский военный корабль, иди на хуй. Currently clean on OPSEC. Entropy always wins.
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@fortnow.bsky.social with an interesting observation about why laws and regulations must evolve—it’s not merely that circumstances and societies change, but also that even predicting any behavior of a generic computer program is impossible, and laws deal with something that is even harder.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

For a long time I thought the only killer app of quantum computing was chemistry because post quantum crypto would get deployed in a timely fashion (yeah yeah). But there is also a silver lining to the disaster of having old public keys busted in the future

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Many elites treat running things as a game where nothing else actually matters *because they’re elites* and have seen how the sausage gets made. Roughly: “There is no wizard—not me! Everyone is a fuckup, so what does it matter if [I am/there is] a bigger fuckup? That’s plebeian thinking.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Somebody posted the source code to the IRS’s Direct File to GitHub. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments