who came up with this MPC model? Dr. Doofenschmirtz?

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this week is my 1 year anniversary of starting grad school. I have been reading 1-2 papers (or equivalent amount of a textbook) per week most of the time. here is the list of papers i have read since starting. I am pretty proud of it! here is a list of papers that were highlights:

writing "i.e.g." to hedge my bets against using the wrong acronym

ticketmaster is officially headquartered in West Virginia? kind of interesting

got my first conference rejections (2 for S&P).

the billing code for shoulder pain is 25.519! cryptography is everywhere!

I really liked this blog post explaining this internet math meme from a few years ago

vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...

solving the poop equation tonight

submitted to S&P

4 days to IEEE S&P deadline. stuck in the phase of paper writing where people keep asking me to slightly change the intro and framing paragraphs of various sections.

when overleaf hits you with the big-ass f

i asked a question on stackoverflow for the first time in a few years and pretty soon after people swooped in on my post to do random copy editing?? what are we doing here

the opposite of the denominator is the nominator. didn't know i missed that part of fractions in elementary school

"the brains of fruit flies use bloom filters" is apparently a true fact from this paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

new salvo in the war for the 16 GB of RAM on my laptop: my VSCode installed an AI spellcheck thing when I blindly clicked on "install suggested extensions" for something. Each window I had open spawned a process just called `java` that was using ~500 MB of RAM!! 1.5 GB across all my windows.

for security purposes. this is used in a few places. If you look at the constructors of this struct (github.com/0xPolygonZer...), 6 out of 7 constructors of this class construct a quadratic extension element with insufficient entropy.

google thinks that one of the important statistics about Sofia Bulgaria is when it was conquered by Krum