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The Tyranny of the Taxi Medallions
The life of a taxi driver is hard. When cabbies start a shift, they owe about $100 to their company as payment just for the opportunity drive a taxi. They might not break even until halfway through...
learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games
Video, research paper, and software for learning how to play NES games and then automatically playing them.
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Hasnain says:
This is a pretty good read, just at the right level in terms of technical details.
Posted on 2013-03-27T18:19:48+0000
Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack
A squabble between a group battling spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending it has escalated into an attack clogging up key online infrastructure worldwide.
Hasnain says:
Cyberbunker claims that they fended off a SWAT team as well - not so difficult given that they're located inside a NATO bunker designed to withstand a 20 megaton blast and the SWAT team was using a battering ram.
Posted on 2013-03-27T14:22:27+0000
How I became a password cracker
Cracking passwords is officially a "script kiddie" activity now.
Jackson Gariety — Designer, Developer, Philosopher
Crafted on Thursday, March 21st, 2013Toward the end of January I conducted an experiment that I didn't tell anyone about. At the time, #hackernews was filled with a lot of "how I hacked my x with y" posts so I thought I'd give it a whirl. My idea for a journal quickly turned into a hack session and…
Jean-Baptiste Queru - Google+ - Dizzying but invisible depth You just went to the Google…
Dizzying but invisible depth You just went to the Google home page. Simple, isn't it? What just actually happened? Well, when you know a bit of about…
Exact Exponential Algorithms
Many computational problems have been shown to be intractable, either in the strong sense that no algorithm exists at all—the canonical example being the undecidability of the Halting Problem—or that no efficient algorithm exists. From a theoretical perspective perhaps the most intriguing case occur...
Hasnain says:
|At U Maryland I took a course from Bill Gasarch on computation. The first thing he said to the class, famously, was "I'm going to show you that there are problems that are impossible to solve. Then I'm going to show you some problems even harder than those.""
This is a good read.
Posted on 2013-03-18T12:47:33+0000