Number stations

I’m creeping myself out listening to this BBC Radio 4 segment on number stations!!!! you are about to enter a very strange world: a world of alleged spooks and spies, of conspiracies and covert operations, of illicit transmissions across the globe to secret agents on undercover operations. or perhaps just a world of fantasies, in… Continue reading Number stations

Kevin on “skittish utilitarianism”

maiki, Maira, Parker, and other ironblogger-sf people: I think you’d like this article on reasoning by Kevin, who I went to college with: Eager vs. Skittish Utilitarianism | melting asphalt. I’d love to hear your thoughts, because you are also people that think about life and philosophy and perform this kind of introspection. =D

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Suffix Tree Dreams

One day, I will understand suffix trees, and I will implement them in Ruby and find the longest repeated substring in Hamlet and run benchmarks. Then after that, I’ll, uh, write it for Ruby in C, which I only know a tiny bit about because of posts like this one about heap memory and ruby… Continue reading Suffix Tree Dreams

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Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!

I went to the Wikipedia SF Hackathon this weekend at Parisoma! Neil and I coded a phone gateway for the English Wikipedia on Twilio. You send it a text with your search query (like “Barak Obama” or “Seattle”) and it calls you back in a few seconds and reads you the entire text of the… Continue reading Wikipedia SF Hackathon! BERLIN HO!!!

Last-minute homework

I’m taking ai-class.com with 130,000 people on the internet. 80,000 were active in a 24-hour period over the weekend. Homework 1 is due in about 4 hours (4:59pm on Sunday Oct. 16 in my time zone), so naturally, I’m doing the homework now. Here I am, chugging along through the videos, when they stop loading.… Continue reading Last-minute homework

help me understand salt

“salt” makes a rainbow attack computationally unfeasible (reference). You take a plaintext password, give it some salt (usually a timestamp, so no one else will have the same salt as you), then take the password and the salt together and put them through your encryption method, and then put the encrypted pw in your database.… Continue reading help me understand salt

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