A collection of interesting reads & repos

Comparison of traditional server management (pets) versus scalable cloud infrastructure (cattle).

Steve’s talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen.

Protecting you from your own worst enemy – yourself.

Tel Aviv University Research demonstrating electromagnetic attacks on laptop encryption keys using a 20 dollar SDR dongle.

An early-days Zuckerberg lecture about Facebook at Harvard.

Introduction to elliptic curve cryptography and its applications in security.

Anecdotal investigation into a rouge Raspberry Pi found in the closet.

Explanation of the concept of meritocracy, where advancement is based on ability and achievement.

A presentation by Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix on the power of big data and psychographics.

Intro to the concept of Word similarity (embeddings) and vector closeness (cosine similarity).

Brief explanation of LLMs and why their lossy design causes many issues when dealing with text extraction .

Paul Graham on the similarities between painting and programming.