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)

Israeli Queues

A introduction to the data structure of Israeli queues

Image Segmentation with Gemini

Using Gemini to mask and segment images

Objects of Our Life

Steve Jobs 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

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