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Currently researching China's Quantum Key Distribution network and feasible attacks and solutions. Currently checking out the possibility of using a quantum simulator programming language to demonstrate a man-in-middle-attack that utilizes quantum non-demolition observations.

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Rebuilding a site for a startup, thinking about a new product I want to start building soon, considering which JS framework to try next (likely VueJS), debating spending Saturday playing with TypeScript.

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For the past couple of years I’ve been researching ways to write software that make it easier for newcomers to understand rather than for insiders to maintain. (https://lobste.rs/c/rue8pf)

Currently as part of that larger project, I've been improving my zoomable UI for browsing program traces: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/9be4a67f42/100trace_brow.... I plan to turn this into a self-contained tool. All it requires is for logging frameworks to start each log line with a number indicating depth. When you open it on such a log file it shows just the highest-level information, allowing you to drill down into details in specific parts of the log.

I think such a UI can be a strong alternative to a debugger. Instead of running the program at interaction time you first collect a trace of the program's execution. You get time-travel debugging for a fraction of the infrastructural cost if you require manual program changes to add logging.

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Scraping Gwern's darknet market dataset (https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives) for my undergraduate thesis. Looking to see how police interventions affect costs of drugs on darknet markets and get a general sense of how the markets work (from an economic standpoint). I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.
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