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About Rob Shearer Latest posts 2023-02-27 2022 Best Picture Nominees After last year’s terrible crop of nominees I am relieved that there are several good films nominated for Best Picture this year. Also a couple of real stinkers, but once they expanded the field to ten that was inevitable.
I’ve seen the “Blum Mental Hash” make the rounds several times over the past decade. Although it’s described as a “secure hash function”, it’s really more like a (weird variant of a) digital signature: given a secret key and a character string of length n , it produces a digit string of length n . The claim is that you can compute such output in your head (assuming you have a particularly well-trained head—merely remembering the very large key is quite a challenge). The primary application envisioned is tha
I won’t dance around this: I don’t think any of the Best Picture nominees this year deserve to win. Some awards—the Hugo awards for science fiction writing, for example—ask voters to rank all the nominees, as well as a “No Award” item; I’m afraid that for the 94th Academy Awards I’d rank “No Award” first for Best Picture.