Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

Hardware acceleration of zero knowledge proof!

Please watch my discussion with our portfolio company Ingonyama's CEO, Omer Shlomovits, on his company and the opportunity for accelerating zkp.

https://waldencatalyst.com/blog/founder-spotlight-deep-dive-into-zero-knowledge-proof

#zeroKnowledgeProof #blockchain

Spoiler Warning (#StarTrek)

It’s not the moral short comings of the main characters that makes “In The Pale Moonlight” one of my favorite episdoes.

It’s the fact that Captain Sisko sacrificed his integrity in the name of the “greater good,” only to have it blow up in his face—only to realize later on that the scoundrel he hired used evil means to ensure the plan succeeded.

https://youtu.be/TNCw_avF_Qg

His rationalization of his wickedness was an attempt to clear his conscience, but he figures it’s a small price to pay to save billions of lives.

https://youtu.be/K-YyL7X4CWw

Basically it’s an episode about hard decision, & while I deplore his actions, it demonstrates that we have to be willing to bear the consequences of our choices.

A very good episode overall.

My suggestion for political leaders is to avoid the insipid rhetoric of unity tonight. Unity is the furthest thing from mattering tonight. Justice would be good. Actions to dismantle police’s capacity to murder citizens would be better. #TyreNichols

New batch of classified documents found…

Me, encountering literally any podcast recommendation:

"This sounds really interesting. I'd sure like to read a transcript of it instead of listening to it."

I did a thing.

https://github.com/hanickadot/cthash

a constexpr implementation of sha-2 family of hashes

something I enjoy is when an author falls in love with an uncommon word and overuses it. a China Mieville book, perhaps The Scar, uses “judder” anomalously often. Neuromancer uses “lozenge” seven times

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a university's former president criticizing the current administration for their handling of a free speech/academic freedom controversy is just about unprecedented in my experience. It's just one of those unspoken customs. That's how badly Hamline has managed the firing of art history lecturer Erika López Prater.
https://www.startribune.com/readers-write-hamline-university-controversy-mary-moriarty-legalizing-marijuana/600242702/

Variable name vs how it’s being used vs documentation in comment above it

From someone on the bird site (that went back to it because of harassment on mastodon!). Another report of sexual harassment that has gone without appropriate handling of the situation. https://patricia.no/2023/01/09/open_letter_guest_post.html

The New York times has discovered nerds.

Some Racket news: Release process for Racket 8.8 is on its way and will be available early February from https://download.racket-lang.org/
Racket gets a release every quarter in Feb, May, Aug & Nov.
If you are a package maintainer get ready to update, if you are a user, remember you can use `raco pkg migrate 8.7` to update your packages.

* Racket is a modern lisp and a descendent of scheme. The racket distribution includes an incremental native-code compiler*, the Racket language, Typed Racket, Datalog & several other languages, an IDE**, documentation and a variety of other tools. The distribution is suitable for new learners, application development, or language design and implementation.

RacketScript - the Racket implementation that compiles to Javascript - is also available separately.

** Racket works with a variety of editors, and has an LSP implementation

#Racket #RacketLang #RacketLanguage #RacketScript

I know what you're thinking... "Another challenge?!?!" Yes, but this one encourages you to FAIL. Take what you know about mapping principles and THROW THEM OUT THE WINDOW for the #MapFailbruaryChallenge. #gischat
https://github.com/datagistips/mapfailbruarychallenge

The Furby source code is public and heavily commented. For example, it turns the microphone off when the motors are running.

Furby was the 1998 version of ChatGPT and tons of people thought it actually slowly learned English words. The NSA was alarmed. However it turned out the "learning" process was just on a timer and the "microphone" only triggers on loud sounds.
https://archive.org/details/furby-source