[Death By Math] One or two of the talks at DFRWS were a bit math heavy, including using non-standard terms and notation (or at least different than what is generally used without redefinitions), 20 minutes of equations and little time devoted to saying what this method actually does (it's a digital forensics conference), and taking so long to get to the example, which is kind of glossed over, that everyone forgets what it's really about. And I'm guessing that probably only a small handful of people had enough of a math background to get what was going on. I was a reviewer for one of the papers and while I thought it was good, I was not qualified to determine if the equations were valid (I had to farm out that part of the review).

Anyway, this was my impression of the event. The speaker looks more or less like the real one, the listener is no one in particular.

Addendum: Brian Carrier took a picture of me during the talk. It looks like I'm studiously taking detailed notes while everyone else isn't paying attention. Sadly the truth is that I'm just drawing this picture. images/Drawings/Sketches/mathattack.png