VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. NS-3 Network Simulator - A discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use 2024-05-08

   tags: network, programming/c, programming/c++, programming/python, programming/xml, simulator, user-interface/qt

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   • nsnam/ns-3-dev
   • Tutorial
   • Installation
   • Models
   • NetAnim - Animates a previously executed simulation using an XML trace file generated during a simulation
2. Leela Zero - Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper 2024-05-02

   tags: game/go, neural-network, programming/c++, programming/java, research

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   • leela-zero/leela-zero
   • featurecat/lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
   • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [PDF]
3. All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces" 2024-04-19

   tags: database, distributed-system, observability, observability/logging, observability/metrics, observability/tracing

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   • Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) (PDF, Talk)
   • HN discussion
   • Axiom - Stop sampling, observe every event
     • Adaptive _time compression — A database hacker story
   • Eventrelay - An event streaming/storage system for the rest of us
   • Honeycomb - Identify Outliers
   • Rill - Fast operational dashboards that your team will actually use
   • Strangeloop 17 - Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store by Sam Stokes
4. Wageningen University & Research - Image Collections 2024-04-11

   tags: biology, history, image, map, nature, plant

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5. Odyssey Audio - Community project to research and reconstruct the music of Halo 2024-04-04

   tags: game/halo, instrument/synthesizer, microsoft/xbox, music, music/soundtrack

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   • Alex Ball - The Sounds Of HALO: Combat Evolved
6. The Sunlight Certificate Transparency Log 2024-03-16

   tags: cryptography/certificate, cryptography/certificate-authority, data-structure/tree, data-structure/tree/merkle-tree, letsencrypt, programming/go

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   • Introducing Sunlight, a CT implementation built for scalability, ease of operation, and reduced cost
   • Transparent Logs for Skeptical Clients
   • C2SP/C2SP - Community Cryptography Specification Project
   • FiloSottile/sunlight
   • transparency-dev/serverless-log
7. AWS Access Key Format 2024-02-28

   tags: cloud/aws, programming/go, programming/python, security, security/credentials, security/token

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   • AWS Security Credentials Formats
   • A short note on AWS KEY ID
   • Research Uncovers AWS Account Numbers Hidden in Access Keys
   • TruffleHog Now Detects AWS Canaries without setting them off
8. Live preview of LaTeX documents with Zathura and Neovim 2023-10-22

   tags: editor/neovim, pdf, programming/latex

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   • ahrm/sioyek - a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
   • frabjous/knap - Neovim plugin for creating live-updating-as-you-type previews of LaTeX, markdown, and other files
9. A Beg­inner’s Guide to Finding User Needs 2023-06-24

   tags: research, user, user-experience, user-interface

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   Qualitative research on user motivations, activities and problems.

10. So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now? 2023-06-05

    tags: article, internet/browser, research

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    Related:

    • Accéder à des articles scientifiques de manière éthique [FR]
11. 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/
12. facebookresearch/nle: The NetHack Learning Environment 2022-12-14

    tags: artificial-intelligence, facebook, game/roguelike, nethack, neural-network, research

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    • https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
13. Cloudflare Research | OPAQUE: An Asymmetric PAKE Protocol Secure Against Pre-Computation Attacks 2022-07-12

    tags: cryptography/encryption, security/authentication, security/password

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    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/opaque-oblivious-passwords/
    • OPAQUE: An Asymmetric PAKE Protocol Secure Against Pre-Computation Attacks
    • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque
    • https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-talk-about-pake/
14. Parti - Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image 2022-07-02

    tags: generation, google, image, machine-learning, machine-learning/tensorflow, text

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    • https://imagen.research.google/
    • https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/vector-quantized-image-modeling-with.html
    • https://github.com/tensorflow/lingvo
    • https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/12/general-and-scalable-parallelization.html
    • https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/tpus/google-showcases-cloud-tpu-v4-pods-for-large-model-training
15. EI2030 Working Groups aims to create a laptop using e-ink or similar non-emissive technology 2022-05-02

    tags: display, diy, e-ink, embedded, laptop, linux, raspberry-pi

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    • https://github.com/EI2030
    • https://alexsoto.dev/modos-paper-laptop.html
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/proposal-ei-2030-the-community-built-e-ink-laptop-project/118
    • https://alexsoto.dev/building-an-e-ink-laptop.html
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/papertop-laptop/136
    • https://forum.pi-top.com/t/buying-another-power-supply-for-pi-top4/481/10
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/low-power-e-paper-os/138
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIz8JL6xc9A
    • https://forum.ei2030.org/t/research-porting-linux-to-ultra-low-power-microcontroller/151/1
16. YARA - The pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers 2022-02-19

    tags: binary, malware, security

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    • https://github.com/virustotal/yara
    • https://yara-rules.github.io/blog/
    • https://github.com/Yara-Rules
17. Researchers Can Duplicate Keys from the Sounds They Make in Locks 2020-09-19

    tags: hack, key, lock, mechanical, sound

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    • https://cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext
18. distri — a Linux distribution to research fast package management | distri 2020-01-30

    tags: distribution, linux, packaging

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    • https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-distri/
19. VideoBass - an instrument that plays moving images instead of sound 2020-01-18

    tags: diy, electronics, image, instrument, instrument/bass, music, video

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    • https://vimeo.com/29731802
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2aNB1fE5Y
    • https://www.anyma.ch/research/videobass/videobass-v3/
    • https://code.google.com/archive/p/videobass/
20. The Mnemosyne Project - Optimized Flashcards and Research Project 2020-01-13

    tags: knowledge, memory, programming/html, programming/latex, question

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    • https://github.com/mnemosyne-proj/mnemosyne
    • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mnemosyne-proj-users