May 29, 2018 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog Blockchain: is it good for humanity? The journey that I have decided to take with Siderus brought myself always in embarrassing moment on meetings Hyped discussion about “Blockchain” and data storage. In this article I don’t want to t...
May 22, 2018 from Remains of the Day Invisible asymptotes "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if ...
May 15, 2018 from Remains of the Day What I learned from a Taipei alley I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I...
Apr 15, 2018 from Remains of the Day The inefficiency of large, infrequent transactions In a conversation with Matt Levine, Tyler Cowen asks:COWEN: Like you, I’m mostly an efficient markets guy, but when I look at initial public offerings I’m very baffled because investment banks take...
Mar 20, 2018 from Remains of the Day Catch up It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free tim...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 26, 2018 from Randall Degges Please Stop Using Local Storage Seriously. Just stop it already. I don’t know what it is, exactly, that drives so many developers to store session information in local storage, but whatever the reason: the practice needs to die o...
Jan 21, 2018 from Remains of the Day Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries.I was ...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 21, 2018 from Randall Degges How EU Cookie Law Myths Affect Web Security Over the last few years you might have noticed banners like this one popping up on a lot of web pages: These banners are a direct result of the passage of the EU directive, sometimes known as the C...
Jan 16, 2018 from Remains of the Day Why Information Grows It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the mean...
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
Jan 03, 2018 from Randall Degges To 30 Billion and Beyond Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. ipify is a freely available, highly scalable ip address lookup service. When you query its REST API, it returns your public-facing IP address....
Dec 10, 2017 from Randall Degges How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of which I’ll be discussing today: monetizing your websites. Developing and runnin...
Dec 10, 2017 from Randall Degges How to Monetize Your Website with Cryptocurrency Mining I’m a big fan of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They have a number of interesting applications, one of which I’ll be discussing today: monetizing your websites. Developing and runnin...
Nov 28, 2017 from William Lyon's Blog Geocoding Paradise Papers Addresses In Neo4j To Build Interactive Geographical Data Visualizations This post explores how to build spatial data visualizations using address data from the Paradise Papers leak of offshore corporations and the people connected to them. First, we geocode all address...
Nov 15, 2017 from William Lyon's Blog Applying NLP and Entity Extraction To The Russian Twitter Troll Tweets In Neo4j (and more Python!) Natural language processing (NLP) techniques like entity extraction can be used to help make sense of a large text corpus. In this post we apply named entity resolution to the scraped Russian Twitt...
Aug 29, 2017 from Randall Degges Authentication Still Sucks I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78 ~two years ago. I’m constantly thinking about fun websites and businesses to bu...
Aug 29, 2017 from Randall Degges Authentication Still Sucks I currently own 47 domain names. I know it sounds like a lot, but that’s down quite a bit from my all-time high of 78 ~two years ago. I’m constantly thinking about fun websites and businesses to bu...
Aug 01, 2017 from shankhs How to assess your level of preparation for the tech interviews PREPARATION. PREPARATION. PREPARATION. Preparation is the key to be successful in any interview and land that job or internship that you always wanted. When you decide you need a job, the first thi...
