Prof. Manindra Agarwal and his students at IIT-K have figured out a polynomial time test for primality. It was an unsolved problem. The RSA algorithm assumes that this is impossible. (NYTimes)
Of course, others have claimed the same. To my knowledge, none is conclusively proven.
What if they’re true? Well, in a few years, our cryptography algorithms will be useless. So it’s back to the drawing board, with security-related dot-coms from Univs popping up.
Berkeley’s course on weblogging has some pretty good links.
The first link I found on Google when searching for “Moria” was Moria poetry. Now, Moria is this text-based game that I used to play until day-before. I like it. I don’t like poetry. Still, I gave it a shot, and before long, I read stuff like
“Buffa in the seria
of my sights split infinitive sunrise
cicadas and more cicadas.”
Sounds Vogon. No offence meant. But the only poetry I’ve enjoyed till date is Alice’s The Mouse’s Tail.
Incidentally, the full-text of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available. (Note: you can’t click the links on the site. You’ll have to modify the URLs a bit.) More hitchhiking to keep you busy.
At last, Microsoft will be revealing its Windows source. Parts of it.
Dontlink.com talks about sites that don’t want to be linked to. Pretty silly, as some of their linking policies reveal.
I’ve overhauled my site, replacing tables and frames with CSS. If you have problems with your browser, please let me know.
The stock market falls when the Parliament is in session. Particularly if the Budget is discussed. Personally, I would attribute it to investor over-optimism. I don’t see how the politicians take bad decisions more than half the time, because in that case, we’re better off without them.
Hmm…
