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Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by blackbear_ »

extremelearning wrote: post #111

I am a statistician / data scientist who blogs about nifty sampling methods, which are frequently used in rendering computer graphics such as: ray-tracing (via Quasi-Monte Carlo methods), object placement, dithering, etc... http://www.extremelearning.com.au All these methods try to find the most efficient sampling techniques that minimize various undesirable effects such as aliasing. Techniques and topics include: bl…

Very interesting topics, but I had to search the source to find your RSS feed!

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by extremelearning »

blackbear_ wrote: post #131
extremelearning wrote: post #111

I am a statistician / data scientist who blogs about nifty sampling methods, which are frequently used in rendering computer graphics such as: ray-tracing (via Quasi-Monte Carlo methods), object placement, dithering, etc... http://www.extremelearning.com.au All these methods try to find the most efficient sampling techniques that minimize various undesirable effects such as aliasing. Techniques and topics include: bl…

Very interesting topics, but I had to search the source to find your RSS feed!

Thanks! To be honest, I hadn't previously made it prominent as I thought RSS had basically died several years ago. However, based on the multiple comments in this parent thread, evidently RSS is still alive and well. So I'll definitely update my blog now to make it more visible!

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by some_furry »

I've mostly been blogging on Medium these days.

Rather than link to my index, here's a post that I wrote about Defeating Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (At Scale):

https://medium.com/@soatok/defeating-coordinated-inauthentic...

If you enjoyed that one, you'll probably enjoy my writing. If you didn't, you probably won't.

I might move my efforts to something self-hosted soon, but I'm more likely to be targeted by malicious script kiddies (due to being openly gay and a furry), and that thought has instilled a lot of inertia with me.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by johndoe42377 »

https://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/TitleIndex

Life-long self-taught programmer from a third-world shithole. There are some insights you won't get by passing through an Ivy League school.

I know things like Erlang and Common Lisp, Standard ML and Haskell and I have solved the monad madness ^_^

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by jjude »

Most write out of authority, authority in the field. I don't. I am a learner. I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. ― C.S. Lewis.

I write at https://www.jjude.com as a way of learning. Writing is part of thinking out loud for me. This year I'm learning about customer experience, business of technology and technology of business. I'm also planning to launch my coaching program. All of those find their place in the blog.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

tkainrad wrote: post #83

Great thread! I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals. Mine is https://tkainrad.dev I think you should read my blog because I invest a lot of effort into my posts. Not sure why I do that, as there is no reward except growing Google Analytics numbers. My three most successful articles have been - Managing my personal knowledge base: https://tkainrad.dev/posts…

> I sometimes wish there was a variant of Hacker News that only had blog posts written by individuals.

I’ve been thinking about the same thing. Something styled along the likes of HN (Eg super minimal), but focussed on technical/HN-crowd topics and every post on the front page is a blog post, and every user profile shows all those user’s posts.

Akin to Medium or Wordpress.com but minimal and very technical.

Of course it’s easy to make such a site, but getting enough people to contribute and get it going will always be the hard part.

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by baby »

I write about cryptography, mostly about resources that I think are missing. If I’m trying to learn something new and nobody has written a good explanation of it then I’ll write it!

https://www.cryptologie.net

Some examples of articles I've written:

* A 4-part series on hash-based signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/306/hash-based-signature...

* ASN.1 vs DER vs PEM vs x509 vs PKCS#7 vs .... https://www.cryptologie.net/article/260/asn1-vs-der-vs-pem-v...

* BEAST: An Explanation of the CBC Attack on TLS https://www.cryptologie.net/article/413/beast-an-explanation...

* Fault attacks on RSA's signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/371/fault-attacks-on-rsa...

* A history of end-to-end encryption and the death of PGP https://www.cryptologie.net/article/487/a-history-of-end-to-...

* Cryptographic Signatures, Surprising Pitfalls, and LetsEncrypt https://www.cryptologie.net/article/495/cryptographic-signat...

* How symmetric password-authenticated key exchanges work (sPAKE) https://www.cryptologie.net/article/490/how-symmetric-passwo...

* Proof of Elgamal's semantic security using a reduction to DDH https://www.cryptologie.net/article/464/proof-of-elgamals-se...

* Developers Are Not Idiots https://www.cryptologie.net/article/466/developers-are-not-i...

Re: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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Post by some_furry »

baby wrote: post #139

I write about cryptography, mostly about resources that I think are missing. If I’m trying to learn something new and nobody has written a good explanation of it then I’ll write it! https://www.cryptologie.net Some examples of articles I've written: * A 4-part series on hash-based signatures https://www.cryptologie.net/article/306/hash-based-signature... * ASN.1 vs DER vs PEM vs x509 vs PKCS#7 vs .... https://www.cry…

I love your blog, David!
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