[1203.3602v1] Picture-Hanging Puzzles
arxiv.org
Hasnain says:
"This is the first time I've come across an algorithm which is proven to operate in O(n^56556) time"
Posted on 2012-03-20T10:26:31+0000
http://fc12.ifca.ai/pre-proceedings/paper_79.pdf
fc12.ifca.ai
Hasnain says:
"Attacking the Washington, D.C. Internet Voting System"
These guys managed to get Bender (from Futurama) elected.
Posted on 2012-03-03T22:00:54+0000
Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident | TorrentFreak
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Are we wrong about Pakistan? - Telegraph
When Peter Oborne first arrived in Pakistan, he expected a 'savage' back water scarred by terrorism. Years later, he describes the Pakistan that is barely documented - and that he came to fall in love with
LukeW | Data Monday: Amazon Prime
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CARPE DIEM: Newspaper Ad Revenues Fall to 60-Yr. Low in 2011
A lot of people are going top find out one day that their local and state governments have been ripping them off--that is, you will find out if you are lucky.No one is left to cover city hall or county supes.BTW, most local papers were conservative---needed advertisers. The PInk State Empire (GOP-La...
Hasnain says:
This quote sums it up:
"That is a really dramatic graph. It's hard to imagine an industry coming back from something like that."
Posted on 2012-02-27T13:53:49+0000
The Freedom, and Perils, of Living Alone
Living alone means freedom to come and go and space and solitude to recharge. It can also unleash eccentricities.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2012-02-25T20:38:41+0000
Minimal Mac | TV Is Broken
Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. She moved in to this place herself not too long ago and was proud to point out to us the brand new, gi...
John Nash’s Letter to the NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA) has recently declassified an amazing letter that John Nash sent to it in 1955. It seems that around the year 1950 Nash tried to interest some US security orga...
Hasnain says:
"Now my general conjecture is as follows: for almost all sufficiently complex types of enciphering, especially where the instructions given by different portions of the key interact complexly with each other in the determination of their ultimate effects on the enciphering, the mean key computation length increases exponentially with the length of the key, or in other words, the information content of the key."
"The significance of this general conjecture, assuming its truth, is easy to see. It means that it is quite feasible to design ciphers that are effectively unbreakable. As ciphers become more sophisticated the game of cipher breaking by skilled teams, etc., should become a thing of the past."
So, John Nash essentially predicted the principles of modern cryptography two decades before it took off. Interesting...
Posted on 2012-02-21T20:10:42+0000
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.
Hasnain says:
That awkward moment when Target tells you your daughter is pregnant...
The downside of machine learning!
Posted on 2012-02-17T07:10:19+0000