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Five short links 24 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Picture by Wackystuff Colors of the Internet – The palettes of the most popular 1,000 websites worldwide. Compression bombs – Create a tiny compressed file that expands into terabytes when it’s expa...
Five short links 22 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
Photo by N-ino Word2Vec – Given a large amount of training text, this project figures out words show up together in sentences most often, and then constructs a small vector representation that captur...
Five short links 15 Aug 2013 | 05:50 am
Photo by Adolfo Chavez TI Calculator Simulator – A geeky labor of love, simulating one of the seminal 1970′s calculators. I’m awestruck that a machine with only 320 words of ROM and a CPU that’s mini...
Five short links 10 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am
Photo by ahojohnebrause Telepath logger – An open source keylogger, with a lot of fun extras like webcam snapshots, light-level, and music-monitoring. A failure of authorship and peer review – An in...
TechRaking – mining the news 8 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
One of my favorite conferences is TechRaking, a gathering of journalists and technologists hosted by Google. It’s invite-only unfortunately, but they seem to gather a good selection of reporters inter...
Five short links 6 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
Photo by Leo Reynolds San Francisco aerial views from 1938 – A startlingly high-resolution zoomable map of the city from 75 years ago. The detail is amazing, as are the sand dunes across what’s now t...
Five short links 30 Jul 2013 | 04:57 am
Photo by Art.Crazed Flush and reload cache attack – An attack on a common encryption program, using only cache manipulation to figure out exactly which code paths are being executed, and so what the ...
How to easily resize and cache images for the mobile web 27 Jul 2013 | 05:09 am
Photo by Trugiaz Mobile web pages crash when they run out of memory. Apple devices are particularly painful – they’ll die hard without even giving you a chance to record the crash! Even if they don’t...
Five short links 24 Jul 2013 | 04:22 am
Photo by Dezz Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites – A member of the Southern Appalachian Space Agency gives a rundown of his custom satellite tracking hardware and software, all built fr...
Reactions to “Why you should never trust a data scientist” 23 Jul 2013 | 07:02 am
A lot of people contacted me about my last post, so I wanted to gather together some of my favorites, so I’ve Storified a lot of the tweets. I’ve been left with a lot to think about – most people agre...
