Do you actually want ECB or do you want the raw block cipher? I’m struggling to see how ECB is a useful primitive otherwise. (And if you want the raw block cipher isn’t CBC with a null IV ok, or does it always add padding in WebCrypto?)

Author is employed by Microsoft, but that just warrants a tiny “competing interests” note at the bottom.

This is how I find out that Bertrand Russell’s parents lived in a house on my road??!

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

Looking forward to reading source code with adverts in it.

At first. And then the reality of AI “peer review” hit me. God help us all.

If only he’d come to a suitably Dahlian end… Marooned in a sea of fake tan lotion perhaps?

- My phone contents were immediately downloaded, on threat of deportation
- In retrospect I should have denied search and accepted immediate deportation; in general I was too compliant, too trusting, too hopeful

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My editor when I was writing a book was very keen that you should show what you want people to use first.

Personally, I would start with MAC then add encryption (eg EtM), so that every step is showing something not broken. Then you can round out the details in a “mistakes to avoid” section.

I was just reading this on the train. You mention that LRMs use reinforcement learning but the reinforcement comes from whether they got the answer correct - if they’re evaluated against a correct answer isn’t that supervised again?