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Jun 04, 2023 from Joybuke

Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed

Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...

May 31, 2023 from nutcroft

The misery of applications

Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...

May 26, 2023 from PRBS23

Combining Dist Constarints in SystemVerilog

Basic Distribution Constraints In SystemVerilog, almost all constraints are some form of boolean expression. The constraint solver’s job is to satisfy all these boolean expression when choosing ran...

May 24, 2023 from Changelog

There's still no silver bullet

The late, great Fred Brooks wrote many words about software engineering. You may have heard of Brooks’s Law or read his seminal book, The Mythical Man-Month. Even if you haven’t, you’ve probably he...

May 24, 2023 from Boris Tane

Observability with ClickHouse

A "behind the scenes" view into building an observability solution with ClickHouse.

May 19, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Reduce your stress: Use a Kanban Board

Here's a trick I've been using for several years to organize my work, and reduce my stress.

May 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Sanitize ArXiv RSS feeds

If you like to dip your toes into the latest stats research on ArXiv, one of the best way to track what’s going on is by following the RSS feed. So, naturally, I do this in Emacs/Gnus, and it actua...

May 18, 2023 from nutcroft

Negations and characteristics of democracy

Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...

May 15, 2023 from Volution Notes

Learning before dabbling in applied cryptography

A live document providing learning resources and pointers for those that want to experiment with applied cryptography.

May 13, 2023 from Volution Notes

Misusing random oracles for practical purposes

Experimenting with various real-world instantiations of cryptographic random oracles, with applicability from multi-factor encryption, to database record encryption.

May 12, 2023 from Volution Notes

Experimenting with multi-factor encryption

Prototyping an encryption tool that allows combining multiple encryption factors, from PIN's, passwords, to X25519 pairs, and beyond.

May 04, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The Mashup

Life has a way of introducing us to new things, related or not to our professional life.

May 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Anatomy of the Rot

Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...

May 03, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Sampling from the Wilson score confidence distribution

library(binom) library(HDInterval) If you’ve worked with Binomial data for a project, you might know that there’s about 10 different ways to calculate a confidence interval for the Binomial proport...

May 01, 2023 from Hammy Havoc

Embracing Festival Vibes: Comfy and Stylish Outfits for a Perfect Blend

Festival season is upon us, and with the promise of vibrant music, delicious food, and a kaleidoscope of experiences, it’s essential to curate the perfect wardrobe that seamlessly blends comfort an...

Apr 27, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

Frugal Man Buys $52,000 Car – Why??

As I type this, I’m jumping through the various hoops involved in buying a 2023 Tesla Model Y, a rather expensive, luxury “crossover” that is absolutely loaded to the gills with excess: all wheel d...

Apr 18, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms

This is a summary of Automated Antenna Design with Evolutionary Algorithms, a 2006 paper by Hornby et al. As large language models become more and more synonymous with “AI”, it is interesting to se...

Apr 13, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

The dog hair and the computer mouse

Because I spend my entire workday on the computer, my mouse is very important to me. With my basic optical mouse, I’m far from a connoisseur, but there are a few things that I’m just so used to tha...

Apr 13, 2023 from Boris Tane

Creating an innovation engine with observability v2

I gave this talk a second time, with corrections and improvements :)

Apr 12, 2023 from nixCraft

How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version...