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Research Comments 0x01: Modelling Text

I’ve found my growing collection of “Note.txt” files floating around in random directories to be an unbearable way of keeping notes. I’ve debated moving those into some sort of Wiki form - but at present, I’ve decided to move documents to this blog in the hopes that others might find them useful. I’ll be labelling these posts as “Research Comments” and numbering them in publish order for my own reference. These documents are not intended to be academic or authoritative in nature - they are research notes collected with links to other documents.

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After Hours and Season 2 Preview (Ep 14)

In this episode I’ll talk a bit about plans for the next season of Zombie Coder, and review some of the lessons learned over the past several months. Look for more episodes to resume after the new year!

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CS Topics: Welcome to Hash World (Ep. 13)

In this episode, I conclude a series on Merkle Trees - or, the key technology and ideas behind distributed systems. I hope this episode captures your imagination to the potential applications of the distributed web.

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Avoiding Death March Projects

What is a death march project? Recognizing Death March projects is easier than you might expect, and avoiding them means simply setting your own boundaries.

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CS Topics: Rand and Xor Magic

In this week’s episode, we dive a bit deeper into the underlying theory behind how random numbers and the importance behind the XOR operator when creating hashes.

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Nix News: Embedded Linux Update

Today I’ll cover my major take-homes from a couple embedded Linux conferences that I (virtually) attended.

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Hope for the Camel's Second Hump

Today I offer some advice for those currently staring down the barrel of failing midterm grades for CS and Engineering students.

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CS Topics: Hash Functions

Today we cover one of the primary building blocks for blockchain - Hash Functions.

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Episode 7 - XLS, XLSX What is Difference?

Today I cover a small “oops” from the UK health center, and extend some thoughts on its relationship to “Real Programming”.

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Episode 6 - Sanity while remote for coders

How I’m trying to keep sane while working remote. Some basic guidelines I’ve adopted over years of remote work.

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