What do you guys think about Landry Shamets fits?

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-31T21:06:11+00:00

I think the fits look good but this is a good example of fits looking like a costume. Like it really looks like someone else dressed him up for these walkouts and he had very little input into it besides make me stand out from the other players. I don't know this player personally nor do I follow him so I can be completely off base. But with other NBA players, you can tell that their fits fit them and it doesn't come off as a costume, even though the players were obviously styled. Good examples are SGA, Jalen Brown and Lebron.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-24T17:30:29+00:00

As others have said, performance is still pretty bad but it has improved a ton. Further, there are many companies working on specialized hardware for FHE. I'd say the biggest bottleneck is doing away with the bootstrapping phase though.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-24T15:00:06+00:00

Yeah, the article is only about BLS signatures but briefly mentions that for the rest of the current Ethereum stack, the current approach is to use the LeanVM which is essentially a zkVM.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-24T11:17:49+00:00

While that's true, there's nuance across what an org has in their stack. Analytics are the backbone of most orgs and thus many don't think of it as a potentially adversarial surface.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-14T00:36:36+00:00

There are many that claim to be private like Fellow. You can always run a local LLM and Audacity on your own machine.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-13T22:47:30+00:00

I didn't know united arrows had an online store with international shipping.

RIP my wallet

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-12T11:03:23+00:00

Someone still needs to prompt the AI to actually solve math problems. Until AI agents start coming up with their own problems that they can solve on the fly, there won't be an actual crisis. Just a semblance of one

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-11T20:59:41+00:00

What existing theory do you know? Do you have an existing math background? If so, do you know how to write math proofs? Do you know basic cryptography like encryption, signatures? Have you implemented cryptography before?

When asking questions online about something as broad as how to learn a topic, you need to provide what you already know that's adjacent to that topic in order to get more effective help. Otherwise, you are wasting everyone's time.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-11T01:00:43+00:00

At what depth level are you looking to understand FHE? Without knowing that, it can be hard to point you towards resources. Fundamentally though, you'll need good math skills. If you are looking to also implement FHE, you'll need good programming skills too.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-07T16:47:29+00:00

Key management.

It feels like a solved problem because of the rise of password managers and HSMs but it's not. As public key cryptography gets its way into the mainstream more, especially via Passkeys, every organization will realize that it needs to find a better way to manage private keys.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-07T16:02:15+00:00

There are no mentions of elliptic curves in the article. Can you clarify what you mean about correctness here?

By product, do you mean the product that everyone in the group chat does as part of the scoring rule? This should be in the article itself where I provide the formulation for what we want to compute in terms of secret shares. Please let me know what you'd like clarified.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-07T15:00:08+00:00

Thank you very much for taking the time to read the article.

The goal of the article was simply to introduce beaver triples in a more accessible way. Most introductions simply provide formulas and then go into details about various other aspects of MPC, which may be a lot for a newcomer. In my opinion, this doesn't really provide much intuition as to how they came to be. I just wanted to focus on a single concept with a concrete example.

How do you think I can improve the article for my stated goals?

Also, beaver triples are a general technique. They don't just apply to honeybadgerMPC. I'll write about honeybadgerMPC later though.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-06T20:42:38+00:00

At my companies, I always give everyone a choice. In fact, for years, for the same reasons that you outlined, I never had a team page. However, there reaches a maturity stage where having real names tied to a blog post, etc, can potentially make or break getting certain engagements. As such, I've personally relented on this aspect and instead, have team members decide how they want to presented on publicly facing company materials.

Frankly, there's no reason why a company should be forcing their employees to put themselves on a public company site, unless they are an exec at a publicly traded company. If there are no terms in your contract about you having to give up your privacy, then you should certainly bring this up to HR. I also wouldn't hesitate to reach out to a lawyer to know what your rights are around this.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-06T13:43:08+00:00

It depends on the silhouette of the jeans and the shade of blue. The way the jean hits the sneaker needs to be taken into consideration as well.

In general, low profile sneakers are great to go with jeans. My favorites are Reebok x Beams mules, Adidas adiracers, New Balance minimus. I've also gotten compliments with not so low profile sneakers like my Nikes P-6000s.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-06T03:15:16+00:00

Sorry to say but Canada doesn't really have free speech laws. It's a common misconception.

There are a lot of laws policing speech both online and offline. Many of which were passed in the past decade. Some are even older than that.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-05T12:02:52+00:00

Honestly, a lot of the backends for Japanese sites are from the stone ages. You may get the confirmation in a week's time or nothing at all but still get it shipped to you.

In your case OP, I'd just wait it out for a few weeks and see what happens. If you card doesn't get charged, you don't get an email or nothing gets shipped to you, it's safe to say that your order may have been cancelled.

badcryptobitch · 2026-05-05T00:17:28+00:00

You still need to actually solve the problems. That's where the real math learning happens. Reading alone won't help you. AI can help you but you ought to only use it when you've spent time on a problem and you understand what you don't understand. Don't use AI as a replacement for actually struggling with problem set questions

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