I’m giving a tech talk on cognitive application development this coming Tuesday: “Applied artificial intelligence”: Getting started with cognitive application development It’s meant to be a part of a set of talks we started last year on artificial intelligence—how do you actually begin to use these cognitive services in web apps, mobile apps—and it’s aimed […]
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Playing with simple encryption math in Python
Probably every real programmer absorbed this decades ago in CS101. I learned it from an episode of NOVA I watched with my son last night, “The Rise of the Hackers“: The basis for most public/private key encryption, which we use for practically all internet data privacy these days, is a simple mathematical fact discovered (I […]
Top songs of 1980
Stream a list like this or just…look at it. Take in the hit songs from the year when you were the age that your children are now to understand something deep and wordless about their inner lives. About music and the inner life in general. This is eleven years old for me: Top Songs of […]