Reading a crypto paper but having to google every second Greek character makes me feel so dumb 😅 I just want to implement it, not to become fluent in Greek! 🤣

Even worse, now I'm beginning to call my variables "zeta" etc., but I guess that's why the authors gave them such non-descriptive names in the first place, naming is hard and there just weren't better ones.

@sebx2a every time I have to read academic papers (usually cs/math papers because of degree), I end up revising different sections of the Greek alphabet

@rohan @sebx2a Could be worse: they could be using emoji.

@pete @rohan @sebx2a
this would be great, finally a use for all the differently colored heart emojis

@orionwl @pete @rohan @sebx2a great right up until you get security holes because the implemented was color blind

@ajtowns @pete @rohan @sebx2a yes exactly good point, it took some effort to come up with absolutely the worst and most inaccessible idea 😀

@ajtowns @pete @rohan @sebx2a
we should use different kinds of fruit instead !
say, these 8 symbols are easy enough to distinguish even by shape alone:
🍇 🍈 🍉 🍊 🍌 🍍 🍎 🥥

@orionwl @ajtowns @rohan @sebx2a Some bitcoiner you are. I think you mean the different types of meat: 🥩🍖🍗🥓🍥🐟🐠🐡🦈🐧🦩🦢🕊️🦜🦅🦉🐦🐥🦐🦞🦀🦑🐙🦪🦂🕷️🐚🐌🐜🦗🪲🦟🪳🪰🐝🐞🦋🐛🪱🐤🐣🐔🐓🦇🦦🦔🦡🦒🐒🦍🦧🐪🐫🐿️🦫🦨🦛🦏🦣🐘🦘🦥🦙🦌🐐🐆🐎🐖🐄🐂🐃🦬🐏🐑🐅🐕‍🦺🦮🐕🐩🐈‍⬛🐈🐇🐀🐲🦎🐉🦖🦕🐢🐊🐍🐁🐸🐴🦄🦓🐗🐷🐮🦝🐺🐻🐻‍❄️🐨🐼🐹🐭🐰🦊🐶🐱🐯🦁🙈🍣

(ok, so admittedly that last one is contaminated with rice...)

@pete @orionwl @rohan @sebx2a I'm a bit concerned that you seem to have listed a snowflake as a kind of meat

@ajtowns @orionwl @rohan @sebx2a oh, you mean 🍥? That's the emoji for fish cakes.