The Greeks invented the phoneme, which separated the visual from the verbal. Claude Shannon invented the bit, which separated information from the physical. The phoneme and the bit are both complete abstractions that are meaningless; they serve to separate the message from the medium. My notes and own additions from…...

I can't help but speculate that the similarity in titles was an oblique reference to an earlier source. #cryptography Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, 1976 "New Directions in Cryptography" Francis Bacon, 1620 "True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature"…...

Tried it. It's NUTS!…...

Never underestimate how #KYC restricts your freedom and changes your behaviour. Last year I purchased a drone. While on holidays, I wanted to take an aerial photo of the farm where I grew up. The app immediately warned me I was in a restricted airspace (near an airport and military…...