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Levenshtein distance between 10 million usernames and their passwords
Mark Burnett, a security researcher, recently released a collection of 10 million passwords along with their usernames. My question was, how different are 10 million usernames from their passwords?...
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Minecraft Square Moderator Application Age Distribution
Back in 2010 I ran a moderately popular minecraft server called Minecraft Square. Its niche was fast hardware with tons of ram in the days when such servers didn't affordably exist. As hosting...
View Article2016 Presidential Election Ballot Order, by State
While digging through the AP elections API feed I noticed it contained a BallotOrder attribute for each candidate, so I wanted to explore it a bit. Table below shows what order the Candidates' names...
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How we built the VOA Election Map in 2016
Despite working for a large international news organization, our digital budget is never quite what it really ought to be. Even thinking about purchasing AP election map interactives or API access is...
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The day I realized I wasn't using 121 remote controller buttons
This year I decided to get back into electronics and for my first project I decided to build a remote controller. Reason for it was annoyance at having to juggle this many remotes for a handful of...
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DIY TV remote controller, part 2: electronics and software test
After some research, I decided to use the Arduino Nano for this project, and got a half dozen units along with some miscellaneous components. They were bizarrely cheap - something like $3 / per on...
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