burgerdev

Which aspect of elliptic curves would you like to understand better? The original paper for Curve25519 contains a dedicated subsection for attack models, for example, and leaves only marginal room for hidden backdoors with its detailed reasoning about curve parameter choice. The implementation of EdDH or EdDSA is specified in RFCs that are explicitly written to be "fool-proof", as others already commented.

I guess what jesse_m had in mind were the mini languages from the article. I'd say 'calc' looks like a good starting point, but I agree that picking an order is hard.

Is it just me, or does the BB style render the most interesting characters as rectangles? (Chrome on OS X)

𝔸 𝔹 𝔺 𝔻 𝔼 𝔽 𝔾 𝔿 𝕀 𝕁 𝕂 𝕃 𝕄 𝕅 𝕆 𝕇 𝕈 𝕉 𝕊 𝕋 𝕌 𝕍 𝕎 𝕏 𝕐 𝕑

... and the first 10k digits of pi might be 'true', but are neither educational nor entertaining.

I would love to read the post-mortem on this one!

I've been running my mail server for 6 years now. Mail to Microsoft's servers (live.com, etc.) keeps ending up in the spam folder, even though spf, dkim and dmarc are set up and my IP has been clean for the entire period. The bright side is that I only notice this in the rare case of "mail to all contacts", since noone is on outlook.com these days.

With software that respects the users' freedoms? With users empowered to make the tradeoffs they prefer regarding privacy?

A post about airport depression without a single reference to Douglas Adams? Welcome to 2018, I guess.

> some boring dude working at [some company] that just [happens to offer coupons for the first 300 likes]

I'd say that sentence generalizes pretty well.

Sounds a bit like the Scala story: could be a really nice language, but the bagagge ... :)

I apologize for the tone of my comment, but still think that ML is not supposed to be written like that.