Skating around the lagoon
The University is mostly closed for winter break, so I went skating around the Condado Lagoon. It was really windy (15-25 knots), so the eastbound leg was pretty hard. It was nice to get out and ride.
more ...The University is mostly closed for winter break, so I went skating around the Condado Lagoon. It was really windy (15-25 knots), so the eastbound leg was pretty hard. It was nice to get out and ride.
more ...Many projects produce valuable digital data that should be preserved. In the PR-NETS project we have deployed a fault-tolerant distributed filesystem called Tahoe-LAFS to store project files.
The Tahoe-LAFS system consists of an introducer, a kind of directory for storage servers, and multiple storage servers. The introducer and storage …
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At the 2015 SHILAC hackathon, mentors from MIT Hacking Medicine suggested I look at the BRFSS data on asthma published by the government of Puerto Rico. I spent the weekend trying to learn enough scikit-learn to build the tree, and then broke down and did it in R.
It …
In a previous post we did a very small example of RSA, following the tutorial by Barry Steyn. For working with modular integer arithmetic we used functions from a toy RSA implementation by Alex Roper.
That toy implementation has functions for doing plain old RSA with larger keys, and …
We will work out a small example of RSA encryption, generating a public/private keypair and sending a simple message.
The example is based on the tutorials on doctrina.org:
http://doctrina.org/How-RSA-Works-With-Examples.html
We use code from a toy RSA implementation by Alex Roper:
We're in the middle of an extended draught, and water has been rationed for almost a month in most of the metropolitan area.
I made an openshift app using Flask and pygal to scrape the data from the water authority's page and plot it.
The source code for everything is …
more ...I've been a bit under the weather for a couple of months. I had a bout of chikunguya fever, and a lingering pain in my right shoulder. It turns out the shoulder was frozen. I've had a week of physical therapy at Tort Therapeutic Elements, and am starting to feel …
more ...After a long hiatus running Mac OS X, I decided to return to linux on my main PC. My MacBook is showing signs of dying, and a hard drive crash during a backup made me finally decide to get a new machine.
I got a HP Pavilion 13-A010dx X360 …
more ...I had a good skate session today. I took a lap around the Condado Lagoon. I'ts about 4.4 miles, and took me some 38 minutes. It was partly cloudy and windy, but only sprinkled on the course. The pavement wasn't too bad, and it was mostly dry. The bike …
more ...First post, testing pelican
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