The reason there are (only) fermions and bosons in 3+ dimensions

Dune warned us of times like this.

Keep fighting the good fight, ArticMine!

Cryptography fact of the day: you can (probably???) eat the flowers they use to decorate drinks!

An early rule you learn in computer science is: “Never store currency as floats” Nearly every popular language has special, built-in types for money. But why? The *majority* of money-like numbers have no float representation, accumulating to massive errors over time:

being academically smart has never stopped me from being an idiot

The flash realization hitting me that the reason my code ran perfectly every time is because I never commented out the test case 🫠

patient 0 of LLM psychosis

7 day history of all other pools indicates an average of ~4.2GH/s. In order to 51% they would need to add ~4.5GH/s to the network. So far we've only seen ~2.6GH/s. (assuming that's even correct). They are purposefully misrepresenting data, don't fall for it.

Did you know that 129-bit ECC is already broken classically? Bitcoin uses 256-bit ECC.

The best logical explanation of entropy. (It only took me 11 months to find an hour to read it). arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

Attached is a report of my thoughts and analysis about the Qubic vs. Monero (XMR) feud. Qubic commissioned this report from me, but with a mutual desire for impartiality. I hope you enjoy the ride. shai-deshe.gitbook.io/parallel-thoug…

this time i’m really gonna do it >:(

Someone in the Monero community (who rather not be named) gave me a breakdown of the main options currently being discussed for dealing with the current POW consensus attack. Broken down by: -Immediate Emergency Options; -Longer Term Options with limited impacts; and -Longer

I am completely opposed to PoS being considered for Monero (even a 'hybrid' camel's nose), & I think we all agree that RandomX's current vulnerability is largely solved with a higher security budget/more hash (with p2pool, which is a separate issue) For PoS proponents, please

And again the #Qubic pool has demonstrated that DDoS attacks isn't an efficient countermeasure.

🚨 The attack against Monero continues with another 8 block reorg a few hours ago