Gauss-Lucas theorem states that the roots of the derivative of a polynomial with complex coefficients always lie within the convex hull of the original polynomial's roots.

Linearly inducible orderings of n points in d-dimensional space are determined by projections onto a reference vector. Their combinatorial are typically less than the number of permutations n! (except when d ≥ n-1). isl.stanford.edu/~cover/papers/…

Ulam's spiral. Ulam noticed a surprising number of primes occur on the diagonals. There have only been partial explanations for why this is true.

Geoffrey Hinton says that while AI could lead to a huge increase in productivity, it could ultimately make things worse as the benefits accrue only to the rich, providing fertile ground for fascism

ICISS (Security) Conference 2024 The LNM Institute of Information Technology is over already! I couldn't join because of visa issues, so I recorded our talk for you to enjoy on your way home. Save travels everyone! #ICISS2024 youtu.be/j9jETCHh4w8

Fibonacci Numbers Using Matrix Exponentiation

The Transformer's encoder clearly explained 👇🏻

CPU vs FPGA

what?? NVIDIA just dropped Project DIGITS, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer that’s small enough to look like a Mac Mini but packs 1,000x the power of your average laptop. Handles AI models with up to 200 BILLION parameters. This is incredible..

Mathematics. Does this equation make you shiver a little or induce a sense of ecstasy and mystic transcendence? I found the equation here: math.stackexchange.com/questions/5067…

Important to be aware of this so that when we start getting urgent questions about what this means for quantum attacks on crypto, we can say NOTHING and this is why. x.com/mjos_crypto/st…

I am happy to announce that our Non-halting attack paper on LLMs has been accepted to IEEE SATML 2025. Here is the updated (and expanded) draft of our paper arxiv.org/abs/2410.06287

Our new work μRL uses Reinforcement Learning to discover new transient execution leakages on Intel CPUs. arxiv.org/abs/2502.14307

Markov's Inequality & Chebyshev's Inequality #sharingisthenewlearning

#award The IACR Fellows for 2025 have just been announced. Congratulations to: Joan Daemen Thomas Johansson Anna Lysyanskaya Pascal Paillier J.R. RAO Alon Rosen Elaine Shi Bo-Yin Yang More info at: iacr.org/fellows/

Google announced they will support privacy preserving age verification via zero-knowledge proofs. You prove you have a signed digital copy of a drivers license and it says you are over 18 without revealing anything about you (name, birthdate, etc) blog.google/products/googl…

You LLM vocabulary is not safe in memory. Swapping token representations using Rowhammer arxiv.org/abs/2505.01518

Cool demo of a GUI for LLMs! Obviously it has a bit silly feel of a “horseless carriage” in that it exactly replicates conventional UI in the new paradigm, but the high level idea is to generate a completely ephemeral UI on demand depending on the specific task at hand.

We are very proud to share that Ingrid Verbauwhede (COSIC) has been awarded the 2025 FWO Excellence Prize in Applied Sciences for her groundbreaking research in semiconductor security. Selected by an international jury, these prizes are often called the “Flemish Nobel Prizes.” 🏆