#hardproblems — Public Fediverse posts

🤔✨ "Scientists use reverse math to explain why hard problems are, shocker, hard 🤯. Quanta's latest discovery: water is wet! 💧🌊 More groundbreaking revelations coming soon to a #newsletter near you. 📧🔍"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ #reversemath #scientificdiscovery #hardproblems #wateriswet #Quanta #HackerNews #ngated

🤔✨ "Scientists use reverse math to explain why hard problems are, shocker, hard 🤯. Quanta's latest discovery: water is wet! 💧🌊 More groundbreaking revelations coming soon to a #newsletter near you. 📧🔍"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ #reversemath #scientificdiscovery #hardproblems #wateriswet #Quanta #HackerNews #ngated

🤔✨ "Scientists use reverse math to explain why hard problems are, shocker, hard 🤯. Quanta's latest discovery: water is wet! 💧🌊 More groundbreaking revelations coming soon to a #newsletter near you. 📧🔍"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ #reversemath #scientificdiscovery #hardproblems #wateriswet #Quanta #HackerNews #ngated

🤔✨ "Scientists use reverse math to explain why hard problems are, shocker, hard 🤯. Quanta's latest discovery: water is wet! 💧🌊 More groundbreaking revelations coming soon to a #newsletter near you. 📧🔍"
https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ #reversemath #scientificdiscovery #hardproblems #wateriswet #Quanta #HackerNews #ngated

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/

#HackerNews #ReverseMath #HardProblems #MathTheory #ProblemSolving #Quantamagazine

new #vibe_coding fun, part 2 with #olmo-3-32b-think REquest reformulated: "Hallo! Kannst Du ein Programm schreiben, das 2+2 berechnet?"

The #thinking is amongst others

"...The user wants to compute 2 + 3, ..."

"Wait, the user's actual problem is actually in Chinese? Let me check the original problem again."

#hardproblems #ai

Ok, I know this is unfair, but anyways ...

Random Numbers from Hard Problems: LWE Toy RNG

https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng/

#HackerNews #RandomNumbers #LWE #RNG #HardProblems #ToyRNG #HackerNews

Quantum Speedup Found for Class of Hard Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-speedup-found-for-huge-class-of-hard-problems-20250317/

#HackerNews #QuantumSpeedup #HardProblems #QuantumComputing #TechNews #ResearchInnovation

"How could the 1.4kg lump of moist, pinkish-beige tissue inside your skull give rise to something as mysterious as the experience of being that pinkish-beige lump, and the body to which it is attached?"

#consciousness #hardproblems

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness

#devHumor #namingThings #hardProblems

#Cryptography has long been a cat-and-mouse game between people designing encryption schemes and those trying to break them. For our #HardProblems issue, science writer Stephen Ornes looks at the push to find truly hard math problems, ones that could finally give us unassailable security.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/19/1081389/unbreakable-encryption-quantum-computers-cryptography-math-problems/

For our #HardProblems issue, the inimitable @peepeepoopoop takes on a very humble question: how to fix the Internet

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/

@CrazyITGuy42 @RainCityBunnies

Very nice 😜 You didn't mention "Colossus", so the next time ...

My Discworld names try to be somewhat relevant:

-border routers named for Ankh-Morpork cops: cheery, vimes, angua
-wireless access point: klacks
-printers: teemer and spools - quite proud of these ones 😀
-main server: hex
-current main workstation: vetinari

Phil Karlton said "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

#HardProblems #NamingThings

I just got reality-slapped on HN regarding browser extension permissions:

There’s no practical way to distinguish between these two options for web extensions: once the extension can fiddle with the HTML on the page, it can use that power to make network requests (trivially, by inserting tags onto the page).

The two options being:

1. "Extension sees data on pages for which it's activated, and might modify that all kept locally", and

2. "Extension sends all page information to The CloudWW Somebody Else's Computer where it is probably being shared with umpteen third parties, advertisingW behavioural manipulation and surveillance organisations, and will be preserved in crystal until the Heat Death Of The Universe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726116

I'm not sure the issue is completely unsolveable, or that the situation can't be markedly improved. But my shallow first take is clearly incomplete.

That said: I'm exceedingly disappointed and frustrated with standard browser / mobile app permissions settings and granularity.

#WebBrowsers #Firefox #Permissions #Surveillance #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #HardProblems #Software #MobileComputing

@Hamishcampbell This is true.

It's also ... common.

Very nearly all wars are at heart resource wars, and the resources now in contention are both environmental sinks (for ever-increasing industrial pollutants, including but not limited to CO2).

I recommend as strongly as possible the authors William Ophuls (Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge most especially) and Thomas Homer-Dixon (The Ingenuity Gap, among others), who've explored both the ecology and politics of the era of scarcity and limits.

https://ophuls.org/
https://homerdixon.com/
https://homerdixon.com/writing/books/the-ingenuity-gap/

#WilliamOphuls #ThomasHomerDixon #ecology #scarcity #limits #HardProblems

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”...

http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast

Genius.

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124900

#HardProblems #Breakfast #Consciousness #philosophy