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tzuryon A thousand fewer paths to root

If a web application is vulnerable to sql injection, there are 4,732 ways you can ruin/still a database. Yet it is all one single vulnerability.

Now, either those are 1k+ unique distinct techniques, or closer to my Sql injection example.

There is no real data attached to the post. And in general, open ai marketing already gained mileage of reputation amongst us.

Most likely kernel is not that vulnerable as they made it sounds.

tzuryon A Modern Web App in C

I commented on the statement “There is a reason why C is not used for web servers today”.

tzuryon A Modern Web App in C

Nginx is written in c.

tzuryon Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

Assuming that for an llm all languages are ≈ equal, the developer factor matters most, and thus the language you know best is the best one, given your ability to correct, direct and orchestra the llm symphony. That been said, obviously this should be examined per task, as some aren’t capable of performing tasks other can.

tzuryon Religious scholars met with Anthropic

The contradiction screams to the skies (is that where God lives?). See, the entire premise of religion relies on a metaphysics that claims a soul: a metaphysical entity that is "attached" to our physical body and gives us our consciousness, desires, pleasures, agony and so on. In addition to that, religion claims that morality and the rules written in the scriptures were handed down to us from a metaphysical God.

Now, assuming your silicon-based model is conscious, the bundle of soul-spirit-consciousness falls apart at that very moment.

In general, religion, which is based on fabricated stories, is the last resort, if ever, for seeking morality.

tzuryon Tcl/Tk 9.1

Indeed!

For the simple prompt to Claude Fable:

    let's write a small tcl/tk app for fun.
    a small tiny UI to manage a to do list.

I got this in no time: https://gist.github.com/mathusiast/a57bf0dfa42d8c7008f8882da...

tzuryon Show HN: I've Translated Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler to Hebrew

You can download the book (in both versions) from https://linear.axler.net/HebrewLADR.html

tzuryon 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

I am reading a comment (1) by a person (2) who read an article on a newspaper website (3) discussing a book (4) written by someone about the life (5) of Stephen Hawking.

What I read !== Stephen Hawking.

tzuryon Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

You can pre order his book Six Math Essentials at https://a.co/d/0e89Jcjf

tzuryon Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

As opposed to PayPal which is now talking in front of the mirror.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/breaking-p...

tzuryon In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

Use Google Translate or llm to translate the content in this url

https://www.intelligence.org.il/?module=articles&item_id=16&...

tzuryon Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

If everyone is using ai (per reported revenues) and nobody like the outcome (banned here, dismissed there), then what is the future of AI?

tzuryon The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

Here you sit, an undergraduate with a calculus book open before you, or a pre-thesis graduate student with one of those books whose first ten pages, at least, you would like to master, or a research mathematician (established or would-be) with an article fresh off the press—what do you do now? How do you study, how do you penetrate the darkness, how do you learn something?

All I can tell you for sure is what I do, but I do suspect that the same sort of thing works for everyone. It's been said before and often, but it cannot be overemphasized: study actively. Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate cases? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?

— Paul Halmos, “I Want to Be a Mathematician”, Study.

Some books simply built around this protocol, some are making it “easier” so they’re more popular and sell more.

tzuryon The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

They do. You get some in the prose, and then more in the exercises.

Learn ____ the hard way.

tzuryon The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

That is the poetry. When all parts clicks together.

tzuryon The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

From the preface

“You cannot read mathematics the way you read a novel.

If you zip through a page in less than an hour, you are probably going too fast.

When you encounter the phrase “as you should verify”, you should indeed do the verification, which will usually require some writing on your part.

When steps are left out, you need to supply the missing pieces.

You should ponder and internalize each definition.

For each theorem, you should seek examples to show why each hypothesis is necessary.”

It is a math studying book, not a let me chew it for you before you take it in type of a book. It requires effort, focus and missing steps are missing on purpose so you will discover them. This is the fun about studying mathematics.

Sorry you fell that way, but the book in my opinion is a masterpiece in math composition.

tzuryon The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf]

Chapter 7 of Linear Algebra Done Right by Sheldon Axler reads almost as poetry.

https://linear.axler.net/

tzuryon Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

For me, Edward Witten (1), Sheldon Axler (2), Patrick Winston (3) and many others do a far better job.

1. https://youtu.be/UW_M7hotSlk

2. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAnmvB9m7zOBVCZBUUmSinFV...

3. https://youtu.be/TjZBTDzGeGg

tzuryon We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself

200,000,000,000÷30÷24÷60÷60÷119

648 queries/second/location.

Obviously not all locations are equal and not all seconds or minutes of the day are.

Indeed an impressive scale.

tzuryon The Classic Movie That Was Nearly Destroyed by a Single Line of Code

https://web.archive.org/web/20260621140445/https://www.wsj.c...

tzuryon Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

A. Disable the Gemini suggestions if you don’t want it (I did so).

B. If one’s using a free mail service for 16 years, and then came to not liking its recent development, in which world shitting on it in public is the right and necessary thing to do?

C. In which world someone switching mail provider is a top front page news item?

D. If the case in B is not free, then this means the OP was heavier user than my teenage daughter. Thus consumed more of it.

tzuryon EY retracts study after researchers discover AI hallucinations

The study, which was used by EY consultants in Canada to market their cyber security business, used made-up data, misattributed citations and referenced a McKinsey report that doesn't exist.

tzuryon Algebrica.org is now open source

All content as markdown repository https://github.com/antoniolupetti/algebrica

tzuryon Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

Well,