November 2007 Archives
Tomorrow is Saturday, but I'm working.
Australia is holding its federal election, and I'm a polling official.
Obviously, as a polling official, I cannot and will not discuss party politics on this blog. However, I can talk about how it works behind the scenes.
Read on for more.
The proof is left as an exercise.
The BBC reports that a rebuilt Colossus is cracking codes again at Bletchley Park.
COLOSSUS was the world's first programmable electronic computer, so this is considered something of an achievement. However, COLOSSUS was really only built to do one job.
Read on for details.
An experimental film from 1965. Written, directed and starring Jim Henson.
(h/t Ze Frank)
Lambdacats is the Haskell rendering of an Internet meme, lolcats. I did a few of them, but several didn't make it to arcanux, on the grounds that they're too much of an in-joke. I can respect that.
This one isn't Haskell-specific, but it is based on a perennial Haskell discussion: The efficient computation of Fibonacci numbers.
So without further ado...
Original photograph by MyRabbits
Over at Lard Bucket, Andy Schmitz looks at Adi Shamir's secret sharing method. He identifies what he considers a possible flaw in the method, using an example from the Wikipedia entry, and invites readers to critique his reasoning.
The executive summary: Andy's reasoning is 100% correct, and so is Shamir's assertion (in the paper) that the method does not leak information.
Read on for details.
