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Part 2 in my attempt to offer an intuitive introduction to cryptography for people with an engineering, machine learning, or similar calculus-based background.

My attempt to offer an intuitive introduction to cryptography for people with an engineering, machine learning, or similar calculus-based background.

In August 2024, NIST published the first three post-quantum cryptographic standards.

17th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security provides a venue for presenting and discussing new developments in the intersection of security and privacy with AI and ML.

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The 12th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography discusses secure computation and data-in-use.

We propose waterlogs, a new direction to detect and trace synthetic text outputs from large language models based on transparency logs.

Brennon is a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University, where he is advised by Matthew Green and has achieved all but dissertation (ABD) status.

AdvML is a workshop on new frontiers in adversarial machine learning.

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.

EuroSys is a premier conference on various aspects of systems software research and development, including its ramifications for hardware and applications.

The 16th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec) aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks.

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We can use the Fiat-Shamir heuristic to compute a non-interactive proof-of-work for a given RESTful POST request.

You wouldn’t pour expired milk on your cereal…so why would you use an expired build of software?

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.

I recently came across this talk from Martin Fowler, Not Just Code Monkeys.

Every once in a while, I find myself in need of using an SSH tunnel to forward some ports, tunnel X11, or use another SSH option.

ASPLOS is the premiere ACM conference for interdisciplinary systems research.

This book is an instant classic.

This talk about the psychology of software engineering is really good.

In this post, we will go through the math behind OPR, including its variants like MMSE OPR.

Graduate School Brennon Brimhall, Philip Mathew, Neil Fendley, Yinzhi Cao, Matthew Green.

With some of my pandemic free time, I decided to do a deep dive to understand more about how match outcomes are predicted in FRC.

I recently wrapped up Machine Learning for Effective Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis (also available from BYU), my undergraduate honors thesis.

I recently became aware of Misko Hevery’s excellent talks from 2008.

People like Bob are problematic in software engineering because they don’t have depth.

At work, my team and I maintain a software repository (a directory structure of compiled binaries and executable scripts, not a repository of source code) for researchers.

I recently read Insanely Simple by Ken Segall.

Now that we have a model, let’s predict who is most likely to win the Chariman’s award in 2019.

Let’s use The Blue Alliance API to train a logistic model to predict future awards won based off of past awards won.

There’s a ton of data on The Blue Alliance.

The topic of college mentorship in FRC is something I see all the time on Chief Delphi.

Notes to myself after the 2018 FRC season.

6844 recently made a pretty major programming investment.

How Team 20 does pretty FRC bumpers – and other thoughts on how to bump up 6844’s bumper game.

I recently wrote a post on here about Documentation in FRC.

As a software guy, documentation is something I rarely take for granted.