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There is no doubt “Big Data” has taken the tech world by storm. I have spent much of 2013 talking about analytics and data science with people all around the US, going to conferences like Strata, and immersing myself in this world for the last 12 months. Over the course of this journey, I have started to notice some patterns about how various people in various kinds of organizations understand and invest in analytics.
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This is a pretty amazing technology demonstration of what is possible using the currently available open source tooling, open source data, and using cloud service providers for hosting and content delivery. It was written by Cameron Beccario (@cambecc). Check it out below. This post Supercomputer Weather Visualization in a Browser first appeared on Dan Stroot's Blog
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Usually one might expect an article by an experienced polyglot speaking a dozen of languages when reading such a headline. But in this case, it’s just a German teenager who’s only fluent in German and English, while also learning Spanish and French.
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Usually one might expect an article by an experienced polyglot speaking a dozen of languages when reading such a headline. But in this case, it’s just a German teenager who’s only fluent in German and English, while also learning Spanish and French.
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Earlier this week Matt Gemmell posted Who to Read in 2014 , where he pointed out ten writers and explained why he felt everyone should pay attention to their work in the upcoming year. At the end of his post, after listing his five favorite articles from the last twelve months, he called on other writers to provide their version of this list. Never one to back down from a challenge, I have done so with a bit of a twist: in addition to th..
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A collection of my favorite cabins from Cabin Porn and other similar sites, beginning with The Watershed . A seventy-square-foot building in the woods of Oregon specifically designed as a writer’s retreat, I love the idea of a small, designated area set apart in which to conduct one’s most personal work. Although given the type of articles I traditionally post I feel such an environment would not be particularly conducive to my writing, ..
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This book was a huge success in many levels, with the superb plot and amazing vibe. I really was drawn into this book and couldn’t…
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A new year is here so I’ll take another swing at how technology will change in the year 2014. This will
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Building the ultimate portfolio site with Nuxt.js and Netlify.
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A technical deep dive on building a portfolio site that is beautiful, blazing fast and 100% SEO optimized
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Just re-run the build - it should go green" Do you hear this on your project? Are your tests flaky? Does the build change from green to red and back again without any real explanation? What are you doing about it? Recently I joined a project that had this problem. It's quite normal to encounter it and it's quite common to get around it by just running the test again. Some teams had actually added scripts to pick up failed tests and run them..
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Building the ultimate portfolio site with Nuxt.js and Netlify.
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zackproser.com
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12 years ago
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A technical deep dive on building a portfolio site that is beautiful, blazing fast and 100% SEO optimized
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For everyone waiting on TEDx to release Ben Bratton’s “ We need to talk about TED ” video, here you go. Since reading his transcript I have kept the page open in anticipation of TEDx releasing this, and I still managed to miss it by a day. If you enjoyed the transcript, you’ll love the talk. Permalink.
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The only thing I love more than listening to podcasts is writing about them. During the last curfuffle I wrote Podcasting State of the Union where I did my best to provide counterpoints for the flaws Harry Marks pointed out in the podcasting industry. To my delight, many agreed with me. After a few days the heat died down though, and I did not expect to have another opportunity to discuss this topic for a while. Then Ben Brooks ..
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Back in April I linked to Rich Stevens’ announcement of a new newsletter he planned to begin publishing once or twice a week focusing on “A little business, a little gadgetry, a little art and writing, and a few dick jokes.” Since then I have enjoyed his seventeen posts immensely, and the latest was no exception: in Nerd, Decentralize Thyself 1 Rich Stevens spoke to the recent trend towards relying on platforms such as Tumblr and T..
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Maybe instead of Coder Dojos for kids, we should run them for their teachers. We must build a team of dedicated teachers to support school coding programs. We do not rely on our students to absorb math from textbooks, online videos or math clubs; similarly, we cannot depend on every student to learn to code on their own, by using online tutorials and afterschool clubs. If coding becomes as fundamental as reading and writing, we need to ..
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Introduction There are lots of posts that talk about the internals of slices, but when it comes to maps, we are left in the dark. I was wondering why and then I found the code for maps and it all made sense. https://golang.org/src/runtime/hashmap.go At least for me, this code is complicated. That being said, I think we can create a macro view of how maps are structured and grow. This should explain why they are unordered, ef..
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Maybe instead of Coder Dojos for kids, we should run them for their teachers. We must build a team of dedicated teachers to support school coding programs. We do not rely on our students to absorb math from textbooks, online videos or math clubs; similarly, we cannot depend on every student to learn to code on their own, by using online tutorials and afterschool clubs. If coding becomes as fundamental as reading and writing, we need to ..
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Steve just released a very important cn1lib that effectively provides developers with elaborate low level graphics primitives to draw pretty much everything on all platforms. The main use case for this library is for charts and graphs which up until now we had to do with the relatively limited graphics capabilities of Codename One (which are currently optimized for speed/portability). Pisces is a rendering engine develop..
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I have heard some people speak of "mobile-first" and "responsive design" interchangeably making them sound as if they were one and the same. However I think there are some subtle differences. I believe responsive design is the broadest possible definition. It says to me that we are going to target all platforms, screen sizes, pixel densities, etc. It means that the user experience will be custom tailored to the exact device you just happ..
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Prompted by an article Zach Epstein posted to BGR last Thursday titled Testing the ‘Apple tax’: What would it cost to build a Windows version of the new Mac Pro? I planned to link his piece as a smug counterpoint to all the people I know who like saying that they can build a more powerful machine for “1/3 the cost” 1 of my overpriced Apple computer. As I thought more about the notion of an Apple tax though, I realized I had more to s..
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The Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform and Digital Watermarking
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12 years ago
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We’ve studied the Fourier transform quite a bit on this blog: with four primers and the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm under our belt, it’s about time we opened up our eyes to higher dimensions. Indeed, in the decades since Cooley & Tukey’s landmark paper, the most interesting applications of the discrete Fourier transform have occurred in dimensions greater than 1. But for all our work we haven’t yet discussed what it means to take an “n..
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The Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform and Digital Watermarking
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12 years ago
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We’ve studied the Fourier transform quite a bit on this blog: with four primers and the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm under our belt, it’s about time we opened up our eyes to higher dimensions. Indeed, in the decades since Cooley & Tukey’s landmark paper, the most interesting applications of the discrete Fourier transform have occurred in dimensions greater than 1. But for all our work we haven’t yet discussed what it means to take an “n..
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The Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform and Digital Watermarking
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www.jeremykun.com
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12 years ago
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We’ve studied the Fourier transform quite a bit on this blog: with four primers and the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm under our belt, it’s about time we opened up our eyes to higher dimensions. Indeed, in the decades since Cooley & Tukey’s landmark paper, the most interesting applications of the discrete Fourier transform have occurred in dimensions greater than 1. But for all our work we haven’t yet discussed what it means to take an “n..
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I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing for the Linux kernel. Nothing I write here is “the one way” to do it, but this is a workflow I’ve found to work for me, that I hope others may find useful.
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I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing for the Linux kernel. Nothing I write here is “the one way” to do it, but this is a workflow I’ve found to work for me, that I hope others may find useful.
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A very interesting read if you’re into Python. Eve has been Python 3 compatible for a while and honestl, I would be surprised to find that somebody is running it in production under Python 3. Why aren’t people using Python 3? First, I think it’s because of a lack of urgency. Many years ago, before I knew how to program, the decision to have Python 3 releases live in parallel to Python 2 releases was made. In retrospect this was a mist..
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Number #3 on Praeclarum’s list hits home for me, but all his points are both valid and strong. As a programming language nerd I had mixed feelings when Jon Galloway tweeted about Microsoft’s new programming language. “Why are your feelings mixed?” I kept asking myself. I love new programming languages. I took an internship at Microsoft just so I could be closer to the people who made C#. I read language specs for fun. I write compiler..
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I barely knew Colin. He sat two offices down from me, but we never worked on anything together, never laid eyes on each other after 5 p.m. Our relationship consisted, in its entirety, of work-related small talk in the break room, his lunch rotating behind us in the microwave. Ding, stir, have a good rest of your day. via What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies | The Billfold.
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A very interesting read if you’re into Python. Eve has been Python 3 compatible for a while and honestl, I would be surprised to find that somebody is running it in production under Python 3. Why aren’t people using Python 3? First, I think it’s because of a lack of urgency. Many years ago, before I knew how to program, the decision to have Python 3 releases live in parallel to Python 2 releases was made. In retrospect this was a mist..
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In January 2014 I will have been using a standing desk as my main desk for three years. Here are three tips
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From almost a week ago, midway through my Christmas vacation, Betaworks announced the latest in a slew of great improvements to the Instapaper platform: Instapaper Daily. Although I cannot say it will replace Tweetbot or Reeder as one of my primary sources for news and articles to read, I really like this as a service and as an indicator of the direction Betaworks plans on taking Instapaper. In the past I have criticized Betaworks for bot..
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As soon as Information Architects released Writer Pro shortly before Christmas, I began collecting “ first look ” pieces after their phenomenal introductory video nearly caused me to shell out a hefty $40 to have the app on both my Mac and iOS devices sight on seen. Much more cautions after my poor experience with Coin though, I exercised a bit of restraint in choosing to wait until after Christmas to make my final decision. Nine days..
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Brandon Wiley - Defeating Internet Censorship with Dust, the Polymorphic Protocol Engine
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media.defcon.org
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12 years ago
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Defeating Internet Censorship with Dust, the Polymorphic Protocol Engine BRANDON WILEY RESEARCHER, STEP THREE: PROFIT! The greatest danger to free speech on the Internet today is filtering of traffic using protocol fingerprinting. Protocols such as SSL, Tor, BitTorrent, and VPNs are being summarily blocked, regardless of their legal and ethical uses. Fortunately, it is possible to bypass this filtering by reencoding traffic into a form ....
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LosT Welcomes the DEF CON Attendees, discusses the making of the DEF CON 21 Badges, and the badge hacking contest.
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Panel - Home Invasion 2.0 - Attacking Network-Controlled Consumer Devices
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media.defcon.org
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12 years ago
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Home Invasion 2.0 - Attacking Network-Controlled Consumer Devices DANIEL "UNICORNFURNACE" CROWLEY MANAGING CONSULTANT, SPIDERLABS, TRUSTWAVE JENNIFER "SAVAGEJEN" SAVAGE SOFTWARE ENGINEER DAVID "VIDEOMAN" BRYAN A growing trend in electronics is to have them integrate with your home network in order to provide potentially useful features like automatic updates or to extend the usefulness of existing technologies such as door locks you....
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DEF CON is proud to announce the 3rd annual DEF CON awards ceremony, renamed the DC Recognize Awards. These awards are given to deserving individuals in the community, industry, and media. Your hosts again this year will be Jericho, Jeff Moss, and Russ Rogers.
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Evolving Exploits Through Genetic Algorithms SOEN HACKER FOR TEAM VANNED This talk will discuss the next logical step from dumb fuzzing to breeding exploits via machine learning & evolution. Using genetic algorithms, this talk will take simple SQL exploits and breed them into precision tactical weapons. Stop looking at SQL error messages and carefully crafting injections, let genetic algorithms take over and create lethal exploits to PW..
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Teal Rogers and Alejandro Caceres - The dawn of Web 3.0: website mapping and vulnerability scanning in 3D, just like you saw in the movies
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media.defcon.org
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12 years ago
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The dawn of Web 3.0: website mapping and vulnerability scanning in 3D, just like you saw in the movies TEAL ROGERS TRINARY SOFTWARE, OWNER ALEJANDRO CACERES OWNER, HYPERION GRAY, LLC Remember that scene in Hackers where Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie get a bunch of hackers to attack Fisher Steven's network through vulnerabilities that they find while flying (literally) through Fisher's network? Even though it had no basis in real....
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The Dark Tangent and GOONS bring the conference to a close, announce contest winners, and hand out prizes.
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Prowling Peer-to-Peer Botnets After Dark TILLMANN WERNER CROWDSTRIKE, INC. Peer-to-peer botnets have become the backbone of the cybercrime ecosystem. Due to their distributed nature, they are more difficult to understand and contain than traditional botnets. To combat this problem, we have developed the open-source framework *prowler* for peer-to-peer botnet tracking and node enumeration. It combines efficient crawling strategies with t....
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Made Open: Hacking Capitalism TODD BONNEWELL MAN WITH A MESSAGE, MADEOPEN.COM The game is Capitalism. The rule makers are the banks, corporations and governments. This presentation is about playing a game that is rigged by the rule makers, and winning in such fashion that the game is never the same. If you like breaking things and building them back up, or are a person, please at least watch this at a later time. I forgive you for no..
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Todd Manning and Zach Lanier - GoPro or GTFO: A Tale of Reversing an Embedded System
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media.defcon.org
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12 years ago
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GoPro or GTFO: A Tale of Reversing an Embedded System TODD MANNING SENIOR RESEARCH CONSULTANT, ACCUVANT LABS ZACH LANIER SENIOR RESEARCH CONSULTANT, ACCUVANT LABS Embedded systems are shrinking in size and becoming widely used in many consumer devices. High quality optic sensors and lenses are also shrinking in size. The GoPro Hero 3 camera leverages high quality camera equipment with multiple embedded operating systems to offer no....
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