The most ambitious project in math seeks to answer fundamental questions by connecting disparate branches of the field, like calculus and geometry. This effort, known as the Langlands program, recently received a rare gift that has vastly expanded its potential. (Thread)

"I would support free speech even if it wasn’t a tactical necessity right now, because I don’t think I have a lock on all the truth in the world." --Katha Pollitt dissentmagazine.org/article/the-le…

Thank goodness, hopefully this will prevent people learning that Sci-Hub which hosts 85 million scientific research papers. Absolutely do not search Google for sci-hub to gain access to 85 million scientific research papers for free. Don't retweet this. Piracy is wrong.

Our peer-reviewed research is now published in Clinical Infectious Diseases! No matter how you slice it, COVID-19 is an airborne disease. Let's call it like it is and put the appropriate measures in place. academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

Many people behave as if they are the hero in a movie that surely will be OK at the end. The real world doesn't work that way.

I cracked up repeatedly reading this essay. It's written about Australia but applies so well to the US too. Hats off to you, Ben!

I’m compiling a list of recent cryptography developments to catch up on from the past 10 years or so. So far, FHE and PQC. Other recommendations?

A friend of mine who does this routinely says that buying Federal legislation is extraordinarily inexpensive, so long as you don’t get into a bidding war. And, so long as the people hurt by the legislation don’t organize—no bidding war. palladiummag.com/2021/09/24/a-w…

In part three of our drug affordability series, we look at how states plan to deepen and expand their strategies to lower #drugprices and how federal reform, now under debate, would augment these successes. arnoldventures.org/stories/part-3…

“HPV affects everyone. Goal: increase HPV vaccination rates & provide education about HPV-related cancers including oropharyngeal (mouth, throat, tonsils, base of tongue), cervical, anal, vulvar & penile cancers.” hpvandme.org/hpv-this-commo… 45 or younger? Get vaccinated!

None of this is right, and it’s kind of the lefty equivalent of QAnon boards where everyone is convinced that all licensed doctors on Earth have stupidly missed the critique you found with a Google search.

It's not just End-to-End Encrypted Messaging which is at threat, it looks like the EU is also gearing up to take aim at HTTPS integrity:

And since the world is going more and more insane, being out of touch is an ideal position, if one is to keep one's sanity

Xingyu wanted to get one or two CVEs in his name this quarter. Right now he has 32 pre-registered CVEs for a high-profile third-party SDK that'll likely be disclosed January-ish (and it's gonna be amazing).

I remember when the consensus was that insurance would be impossible. Then it would make cyber security better by enforcing baseline practices. Then that it is making security worse by encouraging high payouts. I wonder what we’ll believe next?

Just some antivax docs calling for nuance. Provax docs are too busy writing blogs no one reads, demanding FDA approve vax for 2 yo after negative trial, and calling for booster mandates for adolescent boys 👇👇

My coworker just announced some incredible work: A BLE link layer relay, which achieves only 8ms of overhead. This allows relaying BLE-based proximity authentication messages at great distances over the internet, and circumvents usual mitigations such as link layer encryption.

New Sandra Smith paper "Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety" published by Arnold Ventures discusses the evidence that pretrial release does not increase crime and actually increases public safety broadly conceived. craftmediabucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/AVCJIR…

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.

I am putting here a recently published article that many could not access due to the paywall. Pakistan is facing a multi-dimensional crisis, probably the worst since 1971 when it broke up after the Bangladesh war. 1/n