Month: February 2024

Skiff is shutting down in six months

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With the Notion acquisition, what happens to my Skiff accounts?We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion. How can I export my Pages and files?Navigate to https://app.skiff.com/dashboard/?settingTab=export How can I export emails?​Navigate to https://app.skiff.com/mail/inbox?settingTab=export How can I forward my emails to another address?Navigate to https://app.skiff.com/mail/inbox?settingTab=forwarding How can I export contacts?​Navigate to https://app.skiff.com/mail?settingTab=export How […]

BirdLingo: A birdsong learning game

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Explore the world of bird songs with BirdLingo, an elearning game designed for honing your bird song recognition skills. Your objective is simple: build your virtual nature reserve by listening, recognizing, and attracting birds with distinctive songs.

Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter

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Source  Carl Griffith’s 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter How to Get Carl’s Starter NOTE: OUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED as of July 2022 USA ResidentsSend a self-addressed, stamped (68¢ or forever) #10 envelope [SASE] to: Oregon Trail SourdoughP. O. Box 337602Greeley, CO 80633 USA We require a  #10 envelope, also called, in the USA, a “business-size […]

Espressif ESP32: Breaking HW AES with Power Analysis (2023)

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Side Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks are commonly used for extracting the secret key of cryptographic engines found in modern devices. They exploit side channels, such as Timing, Power and Electromagnetic (EM) leaks, to obtain information about the secret key used by the cryptography algorithm. Even though these type of attacks were traditionally performed on smart […]

Learning to live with musk oxen

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By the afternoon of Dec. 13, 2022, idyllic winter conditions had finally arrived in Nome, Alaska. Famous for hosting the finish of the Iditarod sled dog race, this remote town is closer to Russia than it is to Anchorage; here, vast tundra landscapes meet the sea ice that forms over the Bering Strait. A series […]

Thinking about high-quality human data

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[Special thank you to Ian Kivlichan for many useful pointers (E.g. the 100+ year old Nature paper “Vox populi”) and nice feedback. 🙏 ] High-quality data is the fuel for modern data deep learning model training. Most of task-specific labeled data comes from human annotation, such as classification task or RLHF labeling (which can be […]