morning Uncle Lloyd! hehehehe I wish I could offer something meaningful to the discussion - but I don't know enough about the problem! I've begun to watch the "robo-dog" video from your post 22 days ago... and... hmmmm
should i start with something easier? So far I'm about 10 minutes in - and I'm tracking! surprisingly!! hahaha But - i'm always looking for a sort of - crypto 101. I want to make sure that I'm not missing things along the way that would make my whole "education" a lot easier.
I'm reminded of a time in 6th grade - I went on vacation for 12 days to Disney World with my family. During that time, our English teacher taught the basics of some advanced sentence structure beyond the typical simple sentence. Easy. (or so I thought)
I came home and instead of going back and making sure I understood the concept - I just jumped in, much to my dismay! My grades suffered a bit for the next 3 years whenever questions about that particular issue came because I STILL never went back to the basics.
I was applying for a prep high school - and my parents hired a tutor to prepare me for the exam. In about 30 minutes, she identified my weakness in that area and unlocked the entire concept for me. I was shocked that it was THAT simple. Just 30 minutes of tutoring - 3 years prior - would have saved me a lot of stress!
I didn't know that. I didn't know what I didn't know. I didn't even know what questions to ask, because I didn't see where everything had gone south.
So when I want to understand more about crypto - I feel the same way. How do I know what to ask, when I don't know what I don't know?
So..... all that to say :)
I DO want to know! Is there any place that you would suggest I start? Something basic, so that I can catch all the little pieces that I might have missed and gain a strong foundation on which to build for the future.
Sorry that it's a long comment... but it's a nice alternative to spam, right? ;)
yes, at one level it's all sooooo much simpler than it seems, but there's no point pretending that it should all be easy to understand.
it's all wrapped up in not knowing what you don't know. I don't know what you don't know either. I could point you to stuff, but I might not be any better at finding you meaningful content than a google search would be. doh!
I wrote this a couple of years ago: http://www.contributoria.com/issue/2015-09/559571713cb61f472f000034.html which some people said helped them. hmmm... it's a really annoying thing. And that's good, when I'm annoyed sometimes I fix things or find the things that people have already fixed the problem with that I didn't know about.
keep annoying me!
could you not read my brain? could you not just... make me magically understand??? LOLOL
I will read your post - maybe it will start to narrow down some of the questions that I do have!!!
and i agree - annoying necessity is the mother of invention. i added the annoying part hehehehehe