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Cryptography

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Wigderson, A. (2019). Mathematics and computation: A theory revolutionizing technology and science. Princeton University Press.

Garey, M. R., & Johnson, D. S. (1979). Computers and intractability (Vol. 174). San Francisco: freeman. — PDF

Arora, S., & Barak, B. (2009). Computational complexity: a modern approach. Cambridge University Press.

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Jillian Ada Burrows Sosa	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

My notes are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. All images here are also similarly licensed.

Valueflows Reading

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Intelligence, Self-Awareness, and Sentience Reading List

Questions to think about while reading:

• What qualifies as intelligence?
• What qualifies as self-awareness?
• What qualifies as sentience?
• Can an intelligence not be sentient, but still report back that it is?
• Can something be sentient, but not intelligent enough to report back that it is?
• Can something be neither intelligent or sentient, but be statistically likely to compose sentences like it was trained on that fool a human into thinking it it both intelligent and sentient?

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/**
 * Example code for computing azimuths and distance.
 *
 * This code is good for approximating distance, but some of the code is not
 * gauranteed to converge. There are better algorithms located at:
 * [Geodesics on an Ellipsoid](https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/geod.html)
 *
 * For more background on why this is actually a more complicated problem, see:
 * * [Most Changes in Earth's Shape Are Due to Changes in Climate](https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/earthandsun/earthshape.html)
 * * [THE EGM96 GEOID UNDULATION WITH RESPECT TO THE WGS84 ELLIPSOID](https://cddis.nasa.gov/926/egm96/doc/S11.HTML)

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Education is one of the fundamental pillars of a technologically advanced, forward thinking societies. Unfortunately, the focus on test scores has taken curriculum and teaching further away from the basic tethers to reality and the reasons for learning more abstract thought. If we are to address the problems laid out in a paper as old as I am, that our failing education system is a threat to national security, we will have to start focusing on education which starts from actual physical principles and moves toward everything considered abstract in a more concrete way. This means investing in educating teachers and ensuring they understand the principles they are teaching and how they are firmly rooted in the practical.

One of the necessary prerequisites for education is stability in one's household. If a student is so caught up in worrying if they will have food, when they'll be able to study in between doing all the household chores, watching their siblings and/or kids, or if they'll be able to make enough

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1. Casey Michel. This isn't the first time concentration camps have appeared on American soil. ThinkProgress. 19 June. 2019.
2. Alex Ross. How American Racism Influenced Hitler. The New Yorker. 23 April. 2018.
3. Masha Gessen. The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps. The New Yorker. 21 June. 2019.
4. Stacy Chen. Coalition of WWII Japanese American internment camp survivors stage peaceful protest at immigrant detention facility on Texas border. ABC News. 30 March. 2019.
5. [Jennifer Wright. Americans Can't Admit Concentration Camps Exist in the U.S. Because They're Shamele

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Essential Reading For Coms Security and Open Source Infrastructure Efforts

Our current cellphone, wireless, and wired infrasture is insecure. And from the mistakes the industries continue to make it isn't showing many signs of getting better. One of the first steps we can take to make the current standards and implementations open. Once it's open it will become easier to see exactly what needs to be changed. Hopefully, it will also make it easier for the industries to adopt new standards by adopting one of multiple open implementations. This approach has shown promise in many countries which don't already have the infrastructure investment the US does.

TOC

1. Coms Security & Privacy Reading List
2. Towards Completely Open Source Basebands
3. [IMSI catcher software/detection](https://gi

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am adaburrows on github.
• I am adaburrows (https://keybase.io/adaburrows) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASDE6w2y_MoIs8mhnREyU6Y7KMResn9WwjO2vSEC9OaCtQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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require 'puppet'
require 'puppet/network/http_pool'
require 'uri'

url = URI.parse('https://localhost:443/reports/upload')
headers = { "Content-Type" => "application/x-yaml" }
body = <<HELLO
--- !ruby/object:Puppet::Transaction::Report
  metrics:
    resources: !ruby/object:Puppet::Util::Metric

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<?php
 /**
  * Just trying out more functional programming in PHP
  * This gist provides some basic utility functions for:
  *  + Working with functions
  *  + Working with arrays
  */

// This function allows creating a new function from two functions passed into it
function compose(&$f, &$g) {