This is my collection of interesting corners of the internet. I’m particularly interested in security, computer science, astronomy, and AI, but you’ll find bits of everything here.
Cryptography and security
Blogs:
- Project Zero
- Key Material
- chompie at the bits
- Imperial Violet
- stef/blog
- Zachary Szewczyk
- Dhome Moments
- Filippo Valsorda
- Schneier on Security
- Trail of Bits
Papers
- Evaluation of Some Blockcipher Modes of Operation
- Why and How zk-SNARK Works: Definitive Explanation
- DiverseVul: A New Vulnerable Source Code Dataset for Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection
- An accurate evaluation of Maurer’s universal test
- A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis
Books:
- A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- Low-Level Software Security for Compiler Developers
- Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge
- Building secure and reliable systems
Challenges:
Posts:
- Getting Into Security Engineering
- Encryption at rest migrations
- Sandboxing in Linux with zero lines of code
Software engineering and computer science
Blogs:
Books:
- Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
- Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach
- The Rustonomicon
- The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
- Postgres 14 Internals
- Software engineering at Google
- An Introduction to Arithmetic Coding
- Introduction to data compression
Challenges:
- Build Your Own Text Editor
- Implement DNS in a weekend
- Protohackers
- Things Programmers Can Do in One Week
- Distributed System Challenges:
- TCP Puzzlers
Posts:
- Startup idea checklist
- Two books I recommend to developers
- More than you ever wanted to know on linux performance
- How to win in wordle, every time
- How to: Get into grad school for science, engineering, math and computer science
Courses
AI
Blogs:
Papers:
- Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning
- From Words to Numbers: Your Large Language Model Is Secretly A Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples
- Securing AI Model Weights
Books:
Posts:
Finance
Blogs:
Posts:
- S&P 500 Bubble Chart
- What happened at Alameda Research
- Why does Darpa work?
- Lossless Compression Algorithms and Market Efficiency
Astronomy
Blogs:
Posts:
Interesting finds
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