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Medea··on Pi 1.0
More like comparing apple pie to apples. Turns out I just wanted the apples.
Medea··on “Are you the one?” is free money
They have an example that calculates the expected information gained by truth booths and all of the top ones are giving more than one bit. How can this be? It is a yes/no question a max of 1 bit should be possible
Medea··on AMD and OpenAI announce strategic partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AMD GPUs
This deal is odd. OpenAI gets AMD chips but also a chance to own a big part of AMD if things go well. It makes AMD look stronger on paper, but it is risky. These kinds of deals can hide problems and make a bubble. It feels more like hype than real long-term value.
Medea··on Bear is now source-available
But he chose not to use the exact wording from the Elastic Search license, which clearly says "third parties." Instead, he wrote his own license, and now it is not clear if I am allowed to self-host. In my opinion that is a bad decision.
Medea··on Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification
This is an active area of research see for example: EU Digital Identity & Anonymous Credentials at real world crypto 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQHWObCx4I
Medea··on Areal, Are.na's new typeface
It contains 475 glyphs in total, including 13 diacritics for the letter A. The set includes most Latin characters, but does not cover Greek or Cyrillic
Medea··on Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com
chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

Medea··on Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography
Are you sure it is the same Ariadne? The paper you linked is from 2002 and does not mention aperiodic or "Cryptographic Virtual Machine"
Medea··on Show HN: Ariadne – A Rust implementation of aperiodic cryptography
I am having trouble understanding the main purpose of this protocol. After looking at your code example, I want to ask: what is the benefit of using this instead of an AEAD (Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) that is already available in Rust? What specific security guarantee does this give me that would help when I am building protocols?
Medea··on Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
"showing the median runtime of the benchmark, which is a million iterations of checking the time"
Medea··on Cactus – A Modern Diablo II Version Switcher, Character Isolator, & Mod Manager
You can find cacti in act 2: http://classic.battle.net/images/battle/diablo2exp/images/ma...
Medea··on Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
Because it is a marketing page by Wolfram
Medea··on Wobbly clock
Remixed with retina support: https://glitch.com/~noble-gratis-princess
Medea··on Results from Candy Japan box design A/B test
Just out of curiosity, which statistical test should be used in this case?
Medea··on Raptor robot runs at 28.58 mph, faster than any human [video]
A lot of people seem to take issue with the lag of on-board power. OutRunner i a running robot with on board power, that have reached some impressive numbers while running outdoors.

The projekt is on kickstarter right now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/138364285/outrunner-the...

Medea··on Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”
We actually read the full speech in school and watched the youtube video. We got it as a copy from a textbook called "Speeches that changed the world" by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

You can get the ebook from the google play store. From the free sample it seems like they got permission to reproduce copyrigth material from The Estate of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=jPArcMn728kC