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wintersun: Photography Project

Photography Project Week 1: Beginning

Next week: light (not from the sun)

#Project_52_2020

wintersun: In 2012 and 2013 I d

In 2012 and 2013 I did a photography project where I had to capture a picture each week according to a given theme. It was fun and I learned a lot.

I will restart another in 2020 and you are kindly invited, if you wish so. PM me if you want reminders at the beginning of each week.

If you follow me, this is my friendly info, because my feed will change a bit and I will post a bit more than the odd link.

See you in 2020!

#Project_52_2020
#photography

wintersun: Somehow I love this

Somehow I love this idea. Five entropy generators made up as superheroes. Now I want a blockbuster, some comics, hard scifi and tons of fan art. Please?

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League of Entropy: Not All Heroes Wear Capes

Everything from cryptography to big money lottery to quantum mechanics requires some form of randomness. But what exactly does it mean for a number to be randomly generated and where does the randomness come from?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/

wintersun: Mathematician Dispro

Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-disproves-hedetniemis-graph-theory-conjecture-20190617/

wintersun: When it comes to pri

When it comes to privacy, default settings matter! - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/06/04/when-it-comes-to-privacy-default-settings-matter/
...and everytime I reinstall something and load a new firefox I have to switch the default search engine away from Google

#privacy

wintersun: Reasoning by Lego ha

Reasoning by Lego happens when a designer or developer understands cryptography as Lego blocks stacked together. The blue block (the MAC) is sitting on top of the red block (the encryption), therefore the blue block won’t fall down. [..] The Lego view is not wrong. It’s an intuitive way to think of crypto algorithms when you’re writing the code. But it’s the wrong way to think about cryptographic security.

https://www.cryptofails.com/post/121201011592/reasoning-by-lego-the-wrong-way-to-think-about

Seems my TBR pile holds several gems... well, last one for today

wintersun: This practice, now k

This practice, now known as P-hacking, was once endemic to most branches of science that rely on P values to test significance of results, yet few people realized how seriously it could distort findings. That started to change in 2011, with an elegant, comic paper in which the authors crafted analyses to prove that listening to the Beatles could make undergraduates younger

Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01307-2

#lastmonth #socialmediaold #stillrelevant

wintersun: Researchers, he said

Researchers, he said, do not know why some algorithms work and others don't, nor do they have rigorous criteria for choosing one AI architecture over another.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy

and another one. Going through accumulated stuff today

#socialmediaold #lastmonth #stillrelevant

wintersun: I believe the relati

I believe the relative ease—not to mention the lack of tangible cost—of software updates has created a cultural laziness within the software engineering community. Moreover, because more and more of the hardware that we create is monitored and controlled by software, that cultural laziness is now creeping into hardware engineering

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

#lastmonth #socialmediaold #stillrelevant

wintersun: Auf einen Artikel au

Auf einen Artikel aus 2014 gestoßen. 5 Mark / Liter Benzin kam vom damaligen Chef des Umweltbundesamtes aus der FDP(!)

DIE ZERLEGTE ZAHL: 5 Mark pro Liter Benzin - taz.de
http://www.taz.de/!303454/

#umweltschutz #5markproliter #fdp #unerwartetehashtagkombination

wintersun: #introduction

#introduction

interested in #photography #reading #science #travel #whisky #rpg

part time mature student of computer science (part time because work)

will probably post rather seldom and will toot the odd link to an interesting article and one of my travel or abstract photos
(at least that's what I did on Twitter and GooglePlus...)

right now filling my stream with interesting people
please do not hesitate to recommend new ones :)