Collaborate Disseminate
In general, tattoo artists are not electrical engineers. That’s fine; the world needs both professions. But when you need a circuit designed, you’re better off turning to an EE rather than a tattoo artist. And you certainly don’t want an EE doing your new ink. Disaster lies that way.
Surprisingly, …read more
Continue reading Imitating Art in Life with a Reverse-Engineered Tattoo
A large chunk of the global economy now rests on public key cryptography. We generally agree that with long enough keys, it is infeasible to crack things encoded that way. Until such time as it isn’t, that is. Researchers published a paper a few years ago where they cracked a large number of keys in a very short amount of time. It doesn’t work on any key, as you’ll see in a bit, but here’s the interesting part: they used an undescribed algorithm to crack the codes in a very short amount of time on a single-core computer. This piqued …read more
via The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), comes word of the discovery of the 51st Mersenne Prime: 282,589,933-1. Discovered by GIMPS software, and executed by GIMPS user Patrick Laroche on a volunteered computer. Simply Outstanding.
The pattern has a surprising similarity to the one seen in atom distribution in crystals. Continue reading Researchers Discover a Pattern to the Seemingly Random Distribution of Prime Numbers
Let’s start with the fact that everything is a number. Continue reading Can a Number Be Illegal?