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- Understanding zero-knowledge proofs through illustrated examples https://blog.goodaudience.com/understanding-zero-knowledge-proofs-through-simple-examples-df673f796d99 3 comments
- As the Ethereum merge to Proof-of-Stake gets closer - it’s important to understand how it actually works: https://0xfoobar.substack.com/p/ethereum-proof-of-stake 32 comments cryptocurrency
- Vitalik says making ZK proofs ‘understandable’ is necessary for Ethereum https://cryptoslate.com/vitalik-says-making-zk-proofs-understandable-is-necessary-for-ethereum/ 37 comments ethereum
- Vitalik says making ZK proofs ‘understandable’ is necessary for Ethereum https://cryptoslate.com/vitalik-says-making-zk-proofs-understandable-is-necessary-for-ethereum/ 26 comments cryptocurrency
- Cannot understand proofs at all https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/image-files/two-column-proof.png 5 comments math
- Understanding Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy is Freedom https://hackernoon.com/understanding-zero-knowledge-proofs-privacy-is-freedom 5 comments cryptocurrency
- Proof that the average person has no understanding of cryptocurrency or Social Media's Impact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Reese_Witherspoon 51 comments cryptocurrency
- Understanding Proofs, but not being able to come up with them https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/a3t6i7/understanding_proofs_but_not_being_able_to_come/ 16 comments math
- Need some advice on how to understand Pythagorean geometric proofs that demonstrate the existence of irrational numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_number#Ancient_Greece 16 comments math
- Can someone help me understand why Cantor's diagonal proof is different from a countable infinity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvOZm0d4H0 41 comments math
- What mathematical concept must one understand in order to digest Andrew Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem? http://math.stanford.edu/~lekheng/flt/wiles-small.pdf 29 comments math
- What methods do you use when you want to understand a difficult and original proof? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/78aglw/what_methods_do_you_use_when_you_want_to/ 15 comments math
- I'm Trying to Understand this Proof of Zorn's Lemma, but it Uses a Construction I Don't Get https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/~dan/Courses/1999/Fall/401/Zorn.pdf 9 comments math
- Having trouble understanding a proof. https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/persistent.pdf 6 comments math
- Help understanding a proof http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/GT.pdf 7 comments math
- Trying to understand hybrid proofs http://crypto.cs.uiuc.edu/wiki/index.php/Hybrid_argument 11 comments crypto
- Well, here's proof most people don't understand how important this is - A majority of Americans believe the government's plan to deliver a high speed internet connection to every citizen by 2020 is either not important or should not be embarked upon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10948087 795 comments technology
- Anyone willing to help me understand this proof? (Infinitely many primes) http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Numbers-G-Hardy/dp/0199219869/ 20 comments math
- Can someone help me understand how Solana's Proof-of-History differs from literally any other major blockchain? https://solana.com/solana-whitepaper.pdf 12 comments cryptocurrency
- Which single theorem or proof, if one was to understand it in a huge amount of detail, would bring the most amount of ML/DL intuition/understanding? http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics 3 comments learnmachinelearning
- Former Marine Calls Trump's Seal Intervention Proof 'He Has Very Little To No Understanding Of Military' https://www.newsweek.com/former-marine-says-trump-has-little-no-military-knowledge-richard-spencer-1474941 135 comments politics
- Mathematician set to publish ABC proof almost no one understands https://www.newscientist.com/article/2156623-mathematician-set-to-publish-abc-proof-almost-no-one-understands/ 134 comments math
- I find it very difficult to read and understand another person's proof once I have developed my own mental picture of how things should be https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/6tt1m1/i_find_it_very_difficult_to_read_and_understand/ 6 comments math
- Mochizuki says his 500-page abc conjecture proof should only take about 6 months for an expert to understand, not years. http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/iuteich%20verification%20report%202013-12.pdf 59 comments math
- I gave my first professional conference talk this week at the Blockchain Training Conference! I talked about understanding proof-of-work with a cool visualization. https://youtu.be/Wh-sGGIQ628 7 comments btc
- My understanding is that GM Reggie McKenzie’s role won’t be diminished with the arrival of Gruden. Proof: McKenzie declined a Green Bay request to interview for Packers GM job. https://twitter.com/jimtrotter_nfl/status/949353155753426946 32 comments nfl
- What does it take for someone to understand Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/6xdrnf/what_does_it_take_for_someone_to_understand/ 4 comments math
- [Keith Downie]We understand Sheikh Khaled is in fact no relation to Man City owner Sheikh Mansour. There was a suggestion yesterday that Khaled was the half-brother of Mansour. Important to point out this doesn’t mean Khaled doesn’t have the money to buy NUFC, but as yet no proof of funds. https://twitter.com/skysports_keith/status/1133280468269506560?s=20 48 comments soccer
- I understand the formal proofs for convergence (the one with epsilon e>0 and stuff) but actually doing proofs and problems with it seems so clunky and unintuitive that I'm facing trouble. https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/79rd5k/i_understand_the_formal_proofs_for_convergence/ 8 comments math
- Hillary Clinton Saying "Crypto Needs More Regulations to Ensure Russia Don't Circumvent Sanctions" proofs she doesn't understand how Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain works https://thecryptobasic.com/2022/03/03/hillary-clinton-says-crypto-needs-more-regulations-to-ensure-russia-dont-circumvent-sanctions/ 280 comments cryptocurrency
- [Keith Downie] While Bin Zayed Group’s Midhat Kidwai says in his statement they’ve agreed to meet the price and are working hard to complete the transaction, we understand NUFC are yet to see proof of funds to meet the £350m asking price. https://twitter.com/skysports_keith/status/1133101704705134595?s=21 12 comments soccer
- "I will be spending 80 hour plus a week to make BCH successful for the next 20 years. This is not a pump - this is WORK. When you understand that Bitcoin is a Proof of WORK system, then, you may be able to help make it all it can be, and the world become all it can become." https://twitter.com/ProfFaustus/status/979800791711174657 188 comments btc
- Can someone please ELI5 proof of stake ? I really don’t understand the point of choosing the creator of a new block at random. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6kpei5/can_someone_please_eli5_proof_of_stake_i_really/ 37 comments ethereum
- The Billionaires' Tea Party (Proof Tea Party Is Nothing But Astro Turf). America needs to understand that this movement is designed to have them support policies against their own interest making them nothing but indentured servants. http://egbertowillies.com/2011/04/14/the-billionaires-tea-party-proof-tea-party-is-nothing-but-astro-turf.aspx 4 comments reddit.com
- Internet, my friend thinks you cannot explain the "Elementary Proof that Eight Perimeters of the Regular Inscribed Polygon of Twenty Sides exceed Twenty Five Diameters of the Circle" to her in a way she can understand. http://books.google.com/books?id=eTMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=%2B%22regular+decagon%22+%2Bcircle+%2B%22rectangle+under%22&source=bl&ots=l192MKpZCS&sig=I3_EtYD3Gui54fBri2DEbzLczqA&hl=en&ei=ilB8S5GBNoHasgO56YXMCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBUQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%2B%22regular%20decagon%22%20%2Bcircle%20%2B%22rectangle%20under%22&f=false 5 comments math
- UK environment secretary Michael Gove will pledge free British citizenship for 3 million EU nationals after Brexit if he becomes prime minister, as well as abolishing the burden of providing proof of settled status, the Guardian understands. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/27/michael-gove-to-pledge-free-citizenship-for-3m-eu-nationals 11 comments worldnews
- Ignore all future technical opinions from pb1x; he doesn't understand the double spend problem or attack surface of Bitcoin, even at a basic level (see full thread for proof, too many mistakes to link). https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5czd91/ubitusher_spends_his_whole_life_concerntrolling/da2vvnk/?context=20 57 comments btc
- Researchers have shown that people don't really understand statistics. That's not news, but now we have proof that our poor grasp of stats can be bad for our health. http://io9.com/#!correlationisnotcausation/5782635 18 comments science
- Slavoj Žižek: our theories contain paradoxes not because reality is beyond human understanding, but because reality in itself is ontologically unfinished - seen in this way, encountering contradiction becomes proof of touching the real https://iai.tv/video/a-crack-in-everything?access=all?utmsource=reddit 251 comments philosophy
- The difference between proof of work and proof of stake, since many non technical people are having difficulty understanding that proof of stake isn't just creating money out of thin air, any more than proof of work is. https://sjkelleyjrblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/proof-of-stake-vs-proof-of-work/ 13 comments btc
