Another thread of maps I like. This time we are looking loosely at the Indian sub continent. Included are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
First up, Rivers! 1/13

In the 1980s, Avi Wigderson helped show that for any provable statement, it’s possible to convince someone of that proof — without revealing any details. Today, that result is central to cryptography and helped Wigderson earn the 77th A.M. Turing Award. quantamagazine.org/avi-wigderson-…

Recently wanted to fully understand the maths behind KZG aggregation so did an implementation in Rust (with Arkworks): github.com/eerkaijun/kzg-…

Open sourced it and hopefully might be helpful to others too. Might write a step-by-step explanation someday.

Using Avi Wigderson's win of the 2023 Turing Award—just announced today—as an excuse, I'm plugging an explainer on zero-knowledge proofs I wrote for Quanta Magazine lol

quantamagazine.org/how-to-prove-y…

The incredible Avi Wigderson is recipient of the 2023 ACM Turing Award! Congrats Avi!

Read his book, 'Mathematics and Computation', freely available: math.ias.edu/avi/book

🏆 We're thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2023 #ACMTuringAward : Avi Wigderson! Wigderson is recognized for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. Join us in celebrating his incredible achievements! Learn more here: bit.ly/4aGpbiM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Well-deserved!

quantamagazine.org/avi-wigderson-…

Crypto reviews are in ☠️💀☠️💀

Blendy🍹 is out!
We present a new concretely efficient algorithm for multilinear sumcheck proving which uses linear time and sublinear memory.

Joint work with Alessandro Chiesa, Elisabetta Fedele and zeets
ia.cr/2024/524 - gfenzi.io/papers/blendy-…

Cab't believe the strongest earthquake I've felt is *after* I move out of California

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…

NEWS! 🎉 Today, @devpatel and @jordanpeele 's 'Monkey Man' hits screens, and we couldn't be more thrilled to share that our track 'Dana Dan' sets the tone for an EPIC fight scene! Who's tuning in today? 🍿🎶

Next Thursday, 4/4. Register to attend or watch the livestream.

simons.berkeley.edu/events/localit…

A photograph (yes, a photo!) by Egyptian artist Karim Amr

Very excited to announce that my book is coming out in summer 2024!

The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization will be available from Cambridge University Press & Assessment, and you can pre-order it here:
cambridge.org/9781009424448

#Archaeology #SouthAsia #Agriculture #BronzeAge

Amazing discovery in Anatolia! New #Hittite tablet shows striking correspondences with the narrative of #Homer 's Iliad and testifies to second-millennium Luwian songs about the fall of #Troy . More here: academia.edu/116928258/A_Hi…

Annual reminder on this, her most mistakenly holiest of days, that Ištar was never actually pronounced /ɪʃtar/ much less cognate with Easter.

ʕAθtar (𒀭𒀾𒁯 AŠ₂-DAR)
> Eɬtar (𒀭𒁹𒁯 EŠ₄-TAR₂)
> Iɬtar (𒀭𒅖𒋻 IŠ-TAR, 𒀭𒋻 IL₃-TAR)
> Iɬɬar (NB 𒀭𒅖𒄭 IŠ-ŠAR, NA 𒀭𒄑𒊬 IS-SAR)

This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

Sequoia took down their SBF profile but the internet ensures it will live forever

This is insane.

Looks like Facebook did a man-in-the-middle attack using their VPN service to steal data from other apps. This enabled them to see all SSL traffic, by creating a fake digital certificate to impersonate Snapchat, YouTube, Amazon etc.

Seriously?