The Story of the Decryptor Which Doesn’t Decrypt Files
https://wuyuansheng.com/doc/kivu_cqure_casestudy.pdf
A theory of why we’re all going nuts online
Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on Instagram showing him struggling to break through a police barrier to get into the…
Talent rules in the NBA
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/talent-rules-in-the-nba.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talent-rules-in-the-nba That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: With the basketball playoffs starting this week, it is worth asking what can be learned from…
You should be reading academic computer science papers
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/07/you-should-be-reading-academic-computer-science-papers/ You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it’s at. As working programmers, you need…
Distrust in big tech platforms could be their downfall
https://news.youexec.com/briefs/distrust-in-big-tech-platforms-could-be-their-downfall?r=news.&pr=ne&pt=1 A new report revealed that one in five tweets about Tesla over the past ten years were bot-generated, and that the company may have used Twitter bots to manipulate…
The “Trick” To Being Present
Originally posted by @taylorallanvia. The Deep Game Forum “It is impossible not to be present – we are always in the present moment, no matter what we do. The question…
Git 2.30.3 will not operate in non-owned directories
https://github.com/git/git/commit/8959555cee7ec045958f9b6dd62e541affb7e7d9 setup_git_directory(): add an owner check for the top-level directory It poses a security risk to search for a git directory outside of the directories owned by the current user.…
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment—A Review
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/04/noise-a-flaw-in-human-judgment-a-review.html Rob Henderson in Quillette: Are crowds smart or dumb? You may have heard the terms “wisdom of the crowds” and the “madness of crowds.” The former idea is that…