Background A few months ago I was on my way to catch the SeaBus when I walked by an apartment building with an interesting looking access control panel. I wrote down the “MESH by Viscount” brand name and made a … Read more
Everything, On the Main Thread, All at Once Arrays are in every web developer’s toolbox, and there are a dozen ways to iterate over them. Choose wrong, though, and all of that processing time will happen synchronously in one long, … Read more
Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA Introduction This project was entered into as a learning experience, to enhance my knowledge of machine learning, as well as TensorFlow specifically. At the end, I wanted to have a trained machine learning model that runs … Read more
The Fall My previous posts have set the scene in the part of West Sussex where the Sussex muralist worked and taught. By now you should have a pretty good idea where the three painted churches are, and a picture … Read more
Abstract:The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid. Examples include performing arithmetic operations to choose between two … Read more
Over the past five years, OnlyFans creators have collected over $15 billion – with $5.3 billion paid in 2023, a 19% increase year-over-year. As a point of comparison, total NBA salaries during the 2023-2024 season was $4.9B, Premier League payroll … Read more
Introduction In this article, we explore a game that challenges the very foundations of classical physics and introduces us to the strange world of quantum mechanics. The game involves three players — Alice, Bob, and Victor — who perform a … Read more
Market highlights and explanations from a day of records in ERCOT. On August 20th, 2024, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) saw records for demand, solar generation, net load, and battery discharge alongside prices near the cap; a prime … Read more
Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months. I’m never going back. Fig 1. “Thumbs Up” to coding with AI (All opinions are my own, not my employer’s) A few months ago, I … Read more
The supermaxi Comanche broke the transatlantic record for monohulls (west to east) in July 2016, taking more than a day off the record. Here’s how No sailing record has a more storied history, or is harder to beat, than the … Read more