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It feels hard to get started on this subject, I'm always down to get more learning material.
While I'm only at the beginning and still has a lot to learn, to anyone interested in understanding zkSNARK, I heavily recommend reading Maksym Petkus's "Why and How zk-SNARK Works: Definitive Explanation". It's available for free on his website and goes through similar steps than this blog post to explain how it's all done.
Some of the screenshot show them even trying to get a temporary account with support just to get what they've been locked out of to make a backup.
It's then trivial to see that every number you can think of is encoded in there, and therefore any data, piece of music or movie that ever existed.
(I'm not sure we're allowed to fiddle with the encoding, but since we allow ourselves to represent a piece of music into a number, we're already talking about encoding anyway, so it doesn't seem like cheating to me...)
The way I study math usually (actually not usually, because it's not very pracrical, but the most productive way I found) is by locking myself in a classroom, laying all my notes spread on different tables, and using the chalkboard as a temporary playground to redo demonstrations and exercises, and sometimes explore ideas on my own.
Theorems and objects end up having a literal spacial position in the room, and I have to move around to study. It feels like being a craft man in his workshop.
It's fun, really. It got me excited to study maths.
But I need a room for it, and I can only get one if I come super early, before class starts, to get 3 or 4 hours of productivity.
Maybe a virtual one like that can work. It's really appealing.
Given that my account got a connection attempt from Sweden, I guess that's where the archivist live. Hopefully he will have a nice morning tomorrow thanks to the community.