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Stephan Bridger

@hexagr

Person with too many interests. Currently trying to formalize one or two of them.

Eastern, US เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2010
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Matthew Green
Matthew Green@matthew_d_green·
Every now and then some amazing older things pop up in my mentions and I’ve completely forgotten about them. Here’s one from 2021:
Matthew Green@matthew_d_green

This is an amazing paper. It implies (with strong statistical evidence) that the design of a major mobile-data encryption algorithm — used in GPRS data — was deliberately backdoored by its designer. eprint.iacr.org/2021/819

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@stats_feed About one in three people are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, though they may not show symptoms and are not contagious.
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World of Statistics
World of Statistics@stats_feed·
What's a completely random fact no one asked for?
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Stephan Bridger@hexagr·
Modern home appliances, now with internet access and potential remote control by adversaries.
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The tension between digital minimalism and the desire to livetweet our lives in near real-time.
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G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton@GKCdaily·
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.
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@xmjEE Neighborly I am, I wave and try to ask when possible. AFAICT, my neighbors are doing well
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Johannes Meixner@xmjEE·
how do you think your neighbor is doing?
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🎭@deepfates·
am i on drugs or is GitHub way slower and buggier after they moved everything to React
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Stephan Bridger@hexagr·
Thinking is surprisingly physically taxing for a process that looks like doing nothing.
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secret eris
secret eris@eris_nerung·
what do you mean i must go to a different room, lay under covers, close my eyes, and wait for unconsciousness to take me? what kind of bizarre ritual is this, what forces are we trying to appease
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secret eris
secret eris@eris_nerung·
whenever i have to go to bed stone sober and with 0 sleepiness, just because it is Time To Sleep, i find myself believing that ghosts are real
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Stephan Bridger@hexagr·
Open a debugger at eight pm. Glance back at the clock. It is now four am.
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Stephan Bridger@hexagr·
Biases and applied heuristics are the lived, spontaneous, and embodied cognitive tendencies that interact with the world-environment right away. Values are the desire to change one's cognitive tendencies to align toward greater coherence, depth, or alignment with a chosen order.
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HSVSphere
HSVSphere@HSVSphere·
there is nothing more pleasurable than peace and quiet. combined with thinking, you have a great activity
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A lot of people birdwatch. But I almost never observe people mention how it’s a good way to build an intuition about ecology—systems, biology, math, decision theory, economics, etc.
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