VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. AFL++ - American Fuzzy Lop Fuzzing Framework 2025-02-15

   tags: compiler/llvm, genetic-algorithm, programming/c++, programming/fuzzing, programming/rust, research, security, virtualization/qemu

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   • AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
   • AFLplusplus/LibAFL - A collection of reusable pieces of fuzzers
   • rc0r/afl-utils - Utilities for automated crash sample processing/analysis, job management and corpus optimization
   • 0xricksanchez/AFL_Runner - Scaling best-practice AFLPlusPlus fuzzing campaigns made easy
   • AFL++ Papers
   • Sister Projects
   • The LibAFL Book
   • Fuzzing projects with american fuzzy lop (AFL)
   • afl - american fuzzy lop
2. pytudes - Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills 2025-02-07

   tags: algorithm, data-science, programming/python, programming/python/jupyter

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3. pytextrank - Python implementation of TextRank algorithms ("textgraphs") for phrase extraction 2024-12-04

   tags: natural-language-processing, programming/python, text

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4. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette 2024-11-18

   tags: color/palette, game, image/2d, image/compression, image/dithering, image/noise, indie

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
5. Colour Science - Python package providing a comprehensive number of algorithms and datasets for colour science 2024-05-31

   tags: color, image, optics, programming/python

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   • colour-science/colour
   • Tutorial
   • Interactive Tutorial
   • Features
6. USENIX - FreeBSD on Firecracker 2024-05-04

   tags: algorithm, bsd/freebsd, hardware/acpi, virtualization/firecracker, virtualization/hypervisor

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   • FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds on AWS Firecracker
7. Andrei N. Ciobanu - My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try 2024-03-31

   tags: algorithm, cellular-automaton, data-structure, game, probability, programming-language, programming-language/esoteric, window-manager/tiling

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8. Bloom Filters 2024-03-31

   tags: cryptography/hash, data-structure/bloom-filter, memory/cache, programming/javascript, visualization

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   • Akamai - Algorithmic Nuggets in Content Delivery
   • Hashing
   • samwho/visualisations
9. SIEVE - An Eviction Algorithm Simpler than LRU for Web Caches 2024-01-03

   tags: algorithm, memory/cache

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   • SIEVE is simpler than LRU
   • Why Aren’t We SIEVE-ing?
   • cacheMon/libCacheSim - a high performance cache simulator and library
10. Make your programs run faster by better using the data cache 2023-07-22

    tags: algorithm, data-structure, hardware/cpu, memory/cache, performance, programming/c, valgrind

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    • Use explicit data prefetching to faster process your data structure
    • ibogosavljevic/johnysswlab
    • What is cache memory - Gary explains
    • Cachegrind: a high-precision tracing profiler
11. The Bibites - A simulation where you are able to watch evolution happen before your very eyes! 2023-07-22

    tags: game, game/simulation, genetic-algorithm, graphics/2d, procedural-generation

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12. Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts 2023-06-10

    tags: algorithm/pathfinding, game/factorio, graphics/2d, performance/benchmark, programming/c++

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13. HyperLogLog - Approximate the number of distinct elements in a set 2022-12-14

    tags: algorithm, database/postgresql, database/redis

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    • HyperLogLog: the analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm (PDF)
    • HyperLogLog in Practice: Algorithmic Engineering of a State of The Art Cardinality Estimation Algorithm
    • https://agkn.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/
    • Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/21wshj/redis_new_data_structure_the_hyperloglog/
    • https://redis.uptrace.dev/guide/go-redis-hll.html
    • https://towardsdatascience.com/hyperloglog-a-simple-but-powerful-algorithm-for-data-scientists-aed50fe47869
    • https://odino.org/my-favorite-data-structure-hyperloglog/
    • http://blog.notdot.net/2012/09/Dam-Cool-Algorithms-Cardinality-Estimation
    • https://supabase.com/blog/seen-by-in-postgresql
    • https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/12/22/distributed-count-vs-hyperloglog/
14. Python - Finding a key recursively in a dictionary 2022-06-29

    tags: algorithm, programming/python, recursive

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    • https://garethrees.org/2016/09/28/pattern/ - The Stack of Iterators Pattern
    • https://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/01/detecting-cycles-in-directed-graph.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45335445/recursively-replace-dictionary-values-with-matching-key
15. Gonum - a set of packages designed to make writing numerical and scientific algorithms productive, performant, and scalable 2022-06-21

    tags: calculus, mathematics, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/gonum/gonum
16. Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet (Know Thy Complexities!) @ericdrowell 2022-03-23

    tags: algorithm/complexity, programming

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    • https://github.com/ericdrowell/BigOCheatSheet
    • https://github.com/ro31337/bigoposter
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ro31337/bigoposter/master/bigoposter.pdf
17. Algorithmica - Algorithms for Modern Hardware 2022-02-24

    tags: algorithm, data-structure, programming

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18. Balthazar Rouberol - Preparing the SRE interview 2020-09-28

    tags: algorithm, infrastructure, infrastructure/site-reliability-engineering, programming/job-interview

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    • https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492689425&sr=8-1
    • http://www.columbia.edu/~jxz2101/#
    • https://github.com/adicu/interview_help/
    • https://github.com/nryoung/algorithms
    • https://github.com/keon/algorithms
19. Neural Nets for Generating Music - Artists + Machine Intelligence 2019-12-17

    tags: algorithm, generation, machine-learning/tensorflow, markov, music, neural-network

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20. OpenAI Gym - a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms 2019-10-12

    tags: algorithm, artificial-intelligence, data-science, graphics/2d, machine-learning, programming/python, simulation

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    • https://github.com/openai/gym