Author Archives: kotfu
Exploring public datasets
Uncle Sam publishes an extraordinary quantity of data, much of which is difficult for an average person to assimilate. Today I stumbled upon MetricMash, an wonderful website for exploring a handful of important public data sets. The tools are fully … Continue reading
Posted in Statistical Breviary
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Give a little credit
Yesterday I saw Matt Drance’s post about webkit turning ten. He omitted one important fact, and mis-stated another. First, WebKit does not power “nearly every relevant browser and engine used today”. WebKit does have the mobile space locked up: Android, … Continue reading
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What does it take to hack AES?
I got an email this week from a well-intentioned colleague informing me that AES had been hacked and we should go find another encryption algorithm to use. I assumed he was talking about the Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES … Continue reading
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jactiveresource 0.4 released
I’ve made a new release of jactiveresource, a Java port of the ActiveResource module in Rails. Many classes have been refactored, enabling better test coverage. Creation of http client objects has been refactored as well, making it super easy to … Continue reading
Speedclimbing the Eiger
The North Face of the Eiger. You’ve probably heard of this 3,970m (13,025 feet) mountain in the Swiss Alps. The gentler western flank was first climbed on August 11, 1858. The first attempt on the north face was made in … Continue reading
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