Abstract: Biometric template security is an important issue given that biometric features, in their naiive form, are not revocable and provide a one-to-one link to the registered users. In this paper, ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Prime numbers—numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves—have long fascinated mathematicians. This year a researcher discovered the largest known prime number, with a whopping 41,024,320 digits. It ...

Abstract: The Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) expression has been widely used by attackers as an effective obfuscation schema to hide malicious code and conceal sensitive data. For deobfuscating MBAs, ...

A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans. By Siobhan Roberts At the headquarters of Google DeepMind, an artificial intelligence laboratory in London, ...

AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 are steps toward building systems that can reason, which could unlock exciting new capabilities. AI models can easily generate essays and other types of text. However, ...

Python <3.10 src2src obfuscation engine built on LibCST with a library of fun obfuscation techniques, including polynomial MBAs, runtime bytecode patching, etc.