<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@patrick_townsend" class="u-url mention">@<span>patrick_townsend</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ6hX_x4_tw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=YJ6hX_x4_t</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p>Merkle tree accumulators (not merkle trees; see Crosby 09 <a href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec09/tech/full_papers/crosby.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usenix.org/legacy/events/sec09</span><span class="invisible">/tech/full_papers/crosby.pdf</span></a>) are &quot;tamper evident logs&quot;. If you have received a previous state of the accumulator, you may verify that a new state flows from it. Traditionally, this is to verify no one has tried to change history. But in the social usecase, there&#39;s no security reason to *prevent* changing history, so you can use it to *identify and rapidly fetch* changed history.</p>

@cell@pl.ebin.zone They are a minority but they exist. I put some sound dampening foam on my case's plexi window 🤷

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fussenegger.pro/@mathias" class="u-url mention">@<span>mathias</span></a></span> I sometimes find my mind wandering over to features found in model checkers, prolog, and other similar things. Give me Python + THAT.</p>

heckin boy summer

<p>kamar kos sebelah pada nobar bola, tidur gimana ini ​:satania_cry:​</p>

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<p>I occasionally wonder how my ideal programming language would look like.<br />The thought process always goes a bit like: Somewhat like Lua .. but with types ... and typeclasses? At which point I&#39;m eyeing Haskell and start wondering how much you could remove without losing most if it&#39;s power.</p><p>Seems like types are one hell of a rabbit hole?<br />(And Python fell head first into it(?))</p>

Yikes!

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samth" class="u-url mention">@<span>samth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@maxsnew" class="u-url mention">@<span>maxsnew</span></a></span> There is a subtext to asking about those tools — and although you are right that it is hard to review the mathematics in a conference paper for correctness, (my interpretation of) Max’s concern is that mechanisation is not only making up for lack of time allocated to refereeing in our community, but also for lack of basic mathematical competence in our community. In some ways that’s a good thing, but the downside is that it punishes work that employs objectively superior abstractions that are not the sort of thing you can have an untrained grad student type into coq without supervision. It places the bar for theoretical approaches to theoretical work artificially high.</p>