Kevin Karhan May 27, 2024

Also no, #LavaRand is just #pseudorandom, because every #Lavalamp has a determineable cycle of blobs it'll form...

It's just that that it'll take exact info re: the filling, geometry and used bulb to be able to reconstruct and recreate the loop.

But it's a form of #pseudorandomness that is considered "sufficient"...

Tho if one uses #CloudFlare they already fucked up #ITsec so hard, they might just not use #SSL at all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cUUfMeOijg video via @tomscott

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good ...

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UIowa Computer ScienceSep 13, 2023
πŸ“£ This Fall we welcomed Mehrdad Moharrami, Sourya Roy & Rahul Singh to @UIowaCS πŸ‘! More on our new faculty @ https://bit.ly/new_faculty_2023 #WelcomeToIowa #OnIowa 🎊 #ML #PseudoRandomness #BioMedicine
Department welcomes three new faculty members

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa welcomes Mehrdad Moharrami, Sourya Roy, and Rahul Singh to its faculty. Their research interests include biomedicine, pseudorandomness, and reinforcement learning. Please join us in welcoming them!

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