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BLS12-381: Ethereum's consensus layer elliptic curve
5+ day, 20+ hour ago —...First of all, BLS stands for Paulo Barreto, Ben Lynn, and Michael... ...signatures refer to Dan Boneh and Hovav Shacham....
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Generate random points inside a sphere
1+ week, 11+ hour ago —...(This is why naive Monte Carlo breaks down in high dimensions: it... ...what we’d expect given 1/√N = 0.0001. [1] If you’re porting the sampler...
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GPT-5 for AI-assisted discovery
1+ week, 1+ day ago —...But deep domain experts like Scott Aaronson and Terence Tao are likely... ...Scott Aaronson published a paper last month [3], [4] in which â...