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This post was organically written, non-AI farmed A couple of years ago, I posted a review on an AI conference’s papers.

TL;DR it’s not promising.

On Goals and Identity Goals My friends often call me goal oriented.

Are you a lucky person?

10/3 EDIT 0: This is the first draft, and honestly I have a problem with writing drafts too much and polishing too much.

A little lie can travel half way ‘round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.’ - Mark Twain Recent news about potential superconductor LK99 or rather the fact that it isn’t one are quite timely for me (the Nature article details a great summ…

Inventing it is 80% of the fight The Cost of Nukes Alex Wellerstein argues that inventing the nuke was hard, but maintaining it was harder.

I totally write this on Chinese New Year’s Eve rather than actual New Year’s to be celebratory, why do you ask?

Preface I want a PhD before I die.

And all I got was this lousy board!

Been a while, oops.

last updated: 9/18 I somewhat frequently talk with friends on startup ideas.

This is the first blurb on a potentially many-part series on what problems I aim to tackle in my career.

Skip to the bottom header “My Favorite Number” if you care little about my rambles.

I spent 20 hours on this set, but I also didn’t do one challenge since it involved MD4– perhaps I’ll revisit it with some other hash that’s vulnerable to length extension attacks (like SHA2).

In total I probably spent 30 hours on this set, and half of that time was refactoring some previous functions I wrote in previous challenges.

Been a while since I wrote about Set 1, but frankly it takes probably twice as long to explain something than it does to actually do it.

Cryptopals is a set of cryptography challenges.

In 2019 my goal was to become more adventurous and explore.

Test (and first?)