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Last week, I was talking with the main tech coordinator from one of Germany’s biggest Coupon platform, on how they are currently transforming into a full-fledged Adtech platform. And one hugely important thing for every…
A few weeks ago I posted the Newsletter about the Paxos Paper over on Reddit. And boy, Reddit did deliver…quite some hate, but also great comments and ideas. So I did, what every reasonable, grown…
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I thought I understood one core principle of encryption: You take clear text, encrypt it, and now that encrypted gibberish can’t be worked with until it is decrypted again. THIS IS WRONG. There is a…
Read more of Google, but the private way. Using homomorphic encryption to fix the internet
One of the topics, which fascinates many geeks (like you and me) is the idea, that we all might live in a giant matrix-like simulation. And if you argue it from a mathematical standpoint, that…
Read more of If we are all trapped in a simulation (and that is likely). How can we escape?
The ELO player rating system, originally introduced for chess, can now be found in many competitive (e)sports. It aims to be a measure to compare players against each other, but it is any worth? This…
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A mathematical algorithm, greek politics and a bunch of priests…this is what you need for the most beautiful paper I have ever read. This week I am bringing you a paper about the Paxos distributed…
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Здраво омиљена особа, out of pure madness I am diving into the world of quantum computing. One topic that’s been grabbing my attention is Shor’s algorithm. Okay, to be honest, there is no way around…
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你好親愛的, China is known for having the best internet censorship around the globe. This week’s paper measured 411M DNS entries per day over a period of 9 months. The paper dives into how the blocking…
Read more of How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China’s DNS Censorship
สวัสดีที่รัก, you might know there are 13 root DNS server (okay, actually server clusters with anycast routing, but let’s assume there are actually 13 physical servers). These serve as the backbone of the modern internet…
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buna draga, When I first learned about ray tracing it really got me excited. It is such an easy concept: shooting rays out your view and seeing where they bounce off until they hit a…
Read more of This game graphics looks so damn good because of Ray tracing