gtheodor

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   by gtheodor 4mo ago

   You can get the L_k distances between the two counters. E.g. if you sum the absolute value of the difference of the counts, you get the L_1 distance between the counters. If you raise them to the n^th power and then sum them, you get the L_
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   by gtheodor 4y ago

   In 1984, Warren Buffett wrote an article to address this criticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...
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   by gtheodor 10y ago

   A nitpick: When discussing hash function properties (p. 111), his definition of property #1 ("[it should be hard to] modify a message without changing the hash") is, to me, equivalent to second-preimage resistance ("[Given] a
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   by gtheodor 10y ago

   From the article: "Even American Express Co., which historically has focused on customers who pay their bills off every month, is now concentrating on lending money to consumers who keep a balance. Outstanding balances reached nearly