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  • Deestan@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneprotocol
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    10 days ago

    As a software dev, any code library named SimpleWhatever or whose documentation contains the word “simply” anywhere makes me afraid.

    Because they never are. They are a sign that whoever makes them thinks the subject is too hard to understand.

    The end result is a code library that doesn’t make the inherent important hard parts organized and clear to work with, but obfuscates them.


















  • It’s a fascinating field! Simplified: Make a machine that it is impossible to guess the likely outcome of with odds larger than 50/50.

    We are talking any tiny advantageous guess here. If I predict 50/50 that a coin will go heads up, slight imbalances will cause it to go heads on average 51 times out of 100 tosses. Play for a dollar a million times, and I’m rich.

    And if I know roughly how you will toss the coin, I can improve my prediction another tiny amount by knowing which side was up when you lift it up to toss it.

    The field is about making a process that successfuly hides information so I can’t know what state the internal workings of the coin tosser is at any time. It has huge overlap with cryptography.