A collection of interesting reads & repos

Good Reads

King - man + woman = queen; but why?

Intro to the concept of Word similarity (embeddings) and vector closeness (cosine similarity).

Image Segmentation with Gemini

Using Gemini to mask and segment images.

Objects of Our Life

Steve's talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen.

Falling into the Pit of Success

Protecting you from your own worst enemy – yourself.

The History of Pets vs. Cattle

Comparison of traditional server management (pets) versus scalable cloud infrastructure (cattle).

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

A collection of misconceptions about names in programming.

Stealing Keys from PCs using a Software Defined Radio

Tel Aviv University Research demonstrating electromagnetic attacks on laptop encryption keys using a 20 dollar SDR dongle.

CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg [Video]

An early-days Zuckerberg lecture about Facebook at Harvard.

A Primer on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Introduction to elliptic curve cryptography and its applications in security.

The Curious Case of the RasPi in Our Network

Anecdotal investigation into a rouge Raspberry Pi found in the closet.

Meritocracy - Wikipedia

Explanation of the concept of meritocracy, where advancement is based on ability and achievement.

Hackers and Painters

Paul Graham on the similarities between painting and programming.

Repositories

Parker - Built by myself

Parking detection and monitoring webapp that runs entirely in the browser.

XP.css

A CSS library replicating the look of Windows XP/98.

Whatsapp-Net

Generates a network graph from WhatsApp group participant data.

Geohub

Open source Geoguessr alternative.