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Darwin as a Role Model for Aging
I turned 70 years old yesterday. I woke up a bit earlier than usual, and so at 7 AM I set out on a 7-kilometer run. I'm slower than when I was younger, of course, but happy to be alive and reasonab…
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Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds
Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math
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Move FreeBSD System Between ZFS Disks
I made a funny mistake in one of my clients when installing FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE on their server … I have chosen wrong disk for the installation. The server had 4 local disks - 2 of the…
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A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture
This post concerns the following conjecture of Sendov, as well as its strengthening by Phelps-Rodriguez: Conjecture 1 (Sendov's conjecture) Let $latex {n geq 2}&fg=000000$, and let…
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NITDA warns WordPress users over vulnerability that could give attackers website control
Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has warned WordPress users and administrators about a pre-authentication vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious PHP code on affected websites.
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WordPress vulnerability: Login page opens door to server takeover
The WordPress developers have closed a malicious code security vulnerability known as XSS2Shell.
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…
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A Workaphile's Apology
Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this essay-all em dashes are mine1. Soon after the AlexNet breakthrough burst onto the scene over a decade ago, I became preoccupied with the followi…
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FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI
Today quite different topic, using ZFS/NFS on FreeBSD as backend storage for containers/pods running on OpenShift platform. Serving storage for OpenShift is not as simple as OpenShift will not just…
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AI on a piece of sponge?
Letters imprinted on the same piece of sponge in it's compressed region (shown by the darker region) In 2020, I was grappling with a piece of sponge. I had come across an unusual effect in a …
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