Joe Cecil

The OpenFHE API in a nutshell

OpenFHE is a library for doing fully homomorphic encryption. There is a complicated definition, but what it means is this: You can get a server to compute a function on your data without compromising your data. You encrypt your data and send it to the server. The server does the

Leaves in "Doc's Story"

John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story" describes a basketball court and has a nice image of the leaves there: ... Leaves pile up against the fence, higher and higher, piles that explode and jitterbug across the court in the middle of a game, then sweep up

I don't know what I meme

I played a game of Know What I Meme with some friends last night. What I learned is that none of us know what we meme. We ended up searching random keywords trying to find something vaguely prompt relevant. Somehow we ended up with a few good ones anyway, including

I hate e-mail capture

I started out thinking this morning that I didn't like marketing, and I'm starting to think I don't like specific things, like email capture. I learned this term yesterday, e-mail capture. It's (as I understand it) that trick where a website says,

Using meta tensors to load models that don't fit in memory

PyTorch recently implemented a feature called meta tensors. These are tensors without any data. As I understand it, a meta tensor is just a shape and some hooks for recording operations performed on itself. If you add, subtract, multiply, etc. two meta tensors, you get another meta tensor. Probably using

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