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Fun with python 16 Dec 2008 | 12:53 pm
$ time python -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write((lambda size, sizesq, allp, openclose: ((lambda mkbrd, brd, mv, av, d, finished: ((lambda h: h(h, mkbrd(), 0, 0, 0)) (lambda h, b, r, c, v: [lambda: ([la...
Wired News - AP News 19 Mar 2008 | 05:50 am
Genetic Predisposition to PTSD (Wired News - AP News) I can't help but wonder if there will be genetic tests to help people determine whether they will do well as a soldier or other professions where ...
Wired News: Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries 9 Mar 2007 | 06:55 am
Wired News: Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries this is very interesting. adobe is using forensics techniques to detect manipulation. in the usual adversarial game played by computer security and cryptograp...
Pro-consumer Standards and Anti-competitive Standards to Control Markets 22 Dec 2006 | 05:20 am
This news story about mobile phone charger interfaces reminds me of Larry Page's minor rant about laptop power supplies and connectors at CES. Artificial barriers against consumers switching to compet...
Gateway Pundit: New York Times Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud! 9 Aug 2006 | 07:07 pm
Gateway Pundit: New York Times Busted in Hezbollah Photo Fraud! -- this time, staged photos. Presumably the time, date, location is real, only the subject matter is staged. This is the kind of thing t...
Drinking From Home: Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition 7 Aug 2006 | 07:57 pm
Drinking From Home: Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition. Is it two photos of the same woman at the same event? Or is she a professional mourner? A technical means of providing supporting authentication ...
The Jawa Report: Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon 7 Aug 2006 | 07:43 pm
The Jawa Report: Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon -- another photo credited to Adnan Hajj that's obviously been manipulated.
lgf: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? 7 Aug 2006 | 12:12 am
lgf: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? is quite interesting and brings to mind ideas from over a decade ago of embedding secure, tamper-resistant hardware into digital cameras to digitally sign ph...
A New Kind of Innumeracy -- American Scientist Online - Gauss's Day of Reckoning 13 Apr 2006 | 05:09 am
In American Scientist Online - Gauss's Day of Reckoning -- an otherwise excellent article -- the author thinks that an O(1) algorithm is just as good as an O(n) algorithm in these days when students d...
Quotes 10 Mar 2006 | 08:47 am
"I'm not entirely pro-stick." Manoj Kasichainula
