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@CressFiles @Adol447 إيران ليس لديها فائض كهرباء.

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@tmafaisal https://t.co/1gRBh3S0mB

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@heshamnaser2012 أظن سلوك الأسواق الأمريكية قد يكون مشابه لما حدث في أخر أبريل وبداية مايو 2010!.

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@tmafaisal يباع في السوق، وعلى الإنترنت.

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@Mo_Alsuwayed https://t.co/7egAHYr3Uk

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

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[Y_Contributor @Y_Contributor]

Japan adopted Arabic numerals in 1872, defeated Russia in 1905 and today Japanese second graders are expected to master multiplication.

Since 1981 Saudi Arabia education spending has been its second largest government outlay and as a percentage of GDP has averaged 6.27% for the last 40+ years, far higher than many OECD countries. Yet Saudi Arabia's academic PISA math score is 373, its share of low achievers is 73% and its share of top math performers is zero. the country's PISA results are very low and similar to poor Arabic countries like Morocco and Jordan.

This is why other oil rich, but human capital poor, Arabic countries like the UAE and Qatar retain Western expatriates to maintain a 1st world society since Arabs cannot.

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@HeshamAlghannam

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@webook @Turki_alalshikh
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[Raed @alhilalrt55]

كيف يحلون مشكله
ما يشوفون انها موجودة 😂

عالعموم انا مقتنع تماما ان ٧٠٪ من بائعي التذاكر هم موظفي ويبوك

والله ما انسى كثير مباريات نزلت تذاكرها ب غرينتاهب قبل تنزل بالرسمي ( مع تحديد المدرج )

وغرينتاهب صحيحه
اشتريت منهم ٥٠ مره ولا مره ما طلعت صحيحه ووصلتني

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@moe_gov_sa @EtecKsa @RiyadhUniArts @minister_moe_sa @BadrFAlSaud @hamedfayez
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@TuckerCarlson
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[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Arab Israeli prosecutor hospitalized after police home raid over noise complaint
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@HeshamAlghannam ما المقصود بالنقطة 3.

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@MohammedAAzzam https://t.co/yZzkg3JyTZ

[AMB Dr. Rayed Krimly @Rayedkrimly]

تستمر المملكة العربية السعودية في موقفها الداعم للتهدئة وتجنب التصعيد، وللمفاوضات والجهود المبذولة بشأنها، ويجب الحذر مما يُنسب إعلامياً لمصادر مجهولة - بعضها يُزعم أنها سعودية - بما يتعارض مع ذلك.

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@Eyaaaad https://t.co/cGRWu10m2U

[عبدالله بن مفرح عسيري @assiriama]

في لغة اللوائح الصحية الدولية يصنف هذا "حدث يستدعي الابلاغ الدولي" و لا يصل إلى درجة الإنذار و الاستنفار .

فيروس الأنديز (ANDV) اكتشف عام 1995 في الأرجنتين وتشيلي.

ينتقل إلى الإنسان أساساً من القوارض.

هو الوحيد بين فيروسات الهانتا الذي ينتقل من إنسان إلى إنسان عبر الاتصال الوثيق.

يسبب مرض تنفسي شديد.

��ايوجد له لقاح، والسيطرة بالعزل.

تفشيات محدودة وقصيرة الأمد ويسهل السيطرة عليها إذا شخصت الحالات الاولية بسرعة.

أهم التفشيات:
•1996 في الأرجنتين: 16-18 حالة (أول انتقال بشري).
•2014 في الأرجنتين: 3 حالات.
•2018-2019 في الأرجنتين: 34 حالة، 11 وفاة (الأكبر).
•الحالي 2026 على سفينة الكروز (هونديوس): 8 حالات (3 مؤكدة + 5 مشتبهة)، 3 وفيات حتى تاريخه.

[IᗷᖇᗩᕼIᗰ @AbsoluteIg]

@Mo_Alsuwayed حتى مع المتخصصين.
https://t.co/P7AmX6NS6y

https://t.co/UF8apWxtdK

[IᗷᖇᗩᕼIᗰ @AbsoluteIg]

@MohammedAAzzam أظن أن الرئيس ال��نفيذي للقناة أمريكية يهودية، ومن ضمن معدين التقرير Courtney Kube كانت تعمل في The Times of Israel، وكذلك Andrea Mitchell صحفية مخضرمة أمريكية يهودية.

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@Momah_SA @majedhogail @Amanatalriyadh @BinAyyafFaisal
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[Wedyan @WedyanFawaz]

يعني مو معقول ارجع من دوامي واتفاجأ شباكي تقفل بحديد كأني بسجن لا يتزحزح ولاشيء
عشان ايش؟
واحد من الجيران اشتكى البلدية قال قاعدين يطالعوا فيني😂
"ملاحظة: اطلالتي على برحة بس يقول يلفوا ويطالعوا

ماقول غير حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل فيك لاني ماخذة الشقة عشان ذا الشباك الكبير

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@spokesman_mc
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[AbuSaud @Abu_Saud_1982]

@MCgovSA المهم هو تحري الخلل وينه بالتحديد وضبط المتورطين

والاهم المستهلك ياخذ حقه بدون مناشدات ومنشورات بمواقع التواصل ويكتفي برفع بلاغ ويطبق القانون بدون اغلاق للبلاغات وتصريف المستهلك ان البلاغ ليس من اختصاصها

��تمنى يجي اليوم اللي نشوف فيه تطبيق القوانين بدون مناشدات بمواقع التواصل.

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@akalghanim11 https://t.co/dN7ixC30iO

[Financial Times @FT]

China poised to restart exporting jet fuel, diesel and gasoline https://t.co/1GhvpR0eBx

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@Amanatalriyadh @BinAyyafFaisal @AlfadleyA @mansourmushaiti
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[Mutab | متعـــــــــب @mutab]

تحسبوني استهبل لما قلت انهم اسبوعياً يحفرون ؟؟!!
هذا صورة حفرة اليوم مع نفس شلة المصارية

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@ntamimi @spokesman_ia
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[عمر العمران @Omar_Writes]

قبل سنة ونصف، كتبت مقالة عن هذه المشكلة الهامة.

أزعم فيها أن هذه المعضلة تبدأ وتنتهي من تشريعات حسنة النية ولكن سلبية الأثر.

يقول ميلتون فريدمان: «أحد الأخطاء الكبرى الحكم على السياسات حسب نواياها بدلًا من نتائجها.»

المقالة في الرد الأول بالأسفل.