Arachno-capitalist web6 researcher. Tweets not suitable for the casual reader. @nikita@ioc.exchange this week.

Illinois, USA
I should make this my pinned tweet
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"We have a new competitor, Threads!" "Install a hot fix so that threads don't work on Twitter. That'll show them!"
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Yesterday was a fun day—I got to use five languages: ProVerif , bash, Makefile, Rust, and Python
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Love it when papers have references from the 60s. (The Toom paper was actually from 1963 but it was in Russian.)
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IETF draft: Reflections on Ten Years Past The Snowden Revelations ietf.org/id/draft-farrell-te…
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According to Google the most important thing for you to know about me is what I look like. The second most important thing is my place of birth.
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A personal update: I will join UIUC @ECEILLINOIS in Fall 2023. Many thanks to all my colleagues and friends at A&M for your great support over the years. I'm super excited about fruitful collaborations and wonderful life at Illinois!
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If you want to be guaranteed all the swag, you need to sign up by May 1. So signup now: urultra.com/races/sugar-badg…
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Recently when I talk to colleagues they seem more interested in my ultrarunning than my research. Maybe this is says something about my research... In any case, I've decided to resume ultra blogging, this time on Substack. Like and subscribe! ultraprof.substack.com/p/dre…
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Now I need to figure out how to move up 179 spots in the next year
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I wonder if "incognito mode" should more properly be called "amnesia mode."
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In 1735 the composer JS Bach even wrote a piece of music called the Coffee Cantata. It included these lines: Oh! How sweet coffee does taste, Better than a thousand kisses, Coffee, coffee, I've got to have it, And if someone wants to perk me up, Oh, just give me a cup of coffee!
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I love that he’s staring, doggedly, at the wrong side of the screen.
I asked (again) @midjourney to imagine software developers. C++ developer
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ok I think I'm done for the night, this is beautiful
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omg
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Wait a second, these are not real error bars … the author literally just put the letter “T” above the bar graphs 😭
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Grandpa? Why do we celebrate the holiday? Sit on my lap son & let grandpa tell you the story of this day You see, twitter only had enough engineers remaining to keep it running for one more night, but it miraculously kept working for eight nights We burn a Tesla in remembrance
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