Currently, the drive uses CBC/XTS mode for encryption, which means the encrypted data can potentially be modified in predictable ways. Addressing this seems like an interesting research direction related to the 2nd session. In the next talk, Christian Rechberger talked about lightweight block-cipher...
You may recognise parts of Aboriginal culture from things you've seen like boomerangs, digeridoos, wall paintings and their sacred place Uluru rock. Over half a million Australian's identify as Aboriginal, and keep their culture alive through song, dance, and clothing. Sadly, many parts of Ab...
It's always good to have a few interesting or funny facts in your back pocket. You never know when they'll be useful. Sometimes they can be great conversation starters and other times they can be the perfect interjection into a conversation. While you're not likely to use them on a dai...
I found the whole thing fascinating, and it’s given me a couple of things to think about. The first is how it took us this long to ask the question, “What’s in smoke?” We’ve long known that smoke contains soot that interferes with breathing, and substances that in sufficient qua...
Jeff: I tend to write in the mornings if I can. The day has a way of loading me up with other things that need to be addressed, and they’ll play at the back of my mind, even when I’m writing. The early morning is great, because no one needs much in the way of attention ...
Some Interesting Limits to AI Film Criticism 26Jan23 Like many academics, I’ve been seeing a lot of concerns around how AI tools like ChatGPT might impact the work academics do as teachers and scholars. I don’t want to dive too much into those muddy waters, but I saw one post on...
(questions) that an agent could ask about it’s data stream, some questions, seem intuitively easy to answer. While other types of questions, seem hopeless. I hadn’t given it much thought until I heard another grad student make a similar reference, during a really interesting talk about ...
but time is a rarte luxury. It is an interesting adventure into how Python code get executed, and I must admit it changed quite a bit how I understand python code now days and made me even more excited about async/await in Python. It should also dive quite a bit in the internals of...
Tech blog about random things that I find interesting Search IntelliJ IDEA – Gems you can find inside Posted on2016/05/01 This is an opinionated very short list of features that I find useful or interesting in IntelliJ up to version 14.1. ...
It is interesting to note that these groups tend to have less variation than average population stan- dards. We are at risk of comparing one group of `abnormals' with another, both of whom have large variations. It is difficult to obtain meaningful results if a sample is 36 3. 4. 5. ...