• ## The Big Hacks

This is my own record and somewhat informed perspective of significant software hacks within the software development history during my lifetime, and how they shaped the industry. Heartbleed https://heartbleed.com/ (CVE-2014-0160) What was Heartbleed? Problem: Improper pointer arithmetic resulting in out-of-bounds memory reads Severity: Memory exposure and private key recovery Worst...

• ## Computational Graph Theory

A humerous presentation on Graph Theory, covering Linked Lists, Binary Search Trees, DAGs, and other relevant data structures and algorithms.

• ## Nondeterministic Time Sucks

This is a record of all of the times software became a drag, sucking up time, resources and energy trying to fix a stupid problem or a silly mistake. These issues have consumed hours of my life, and the solutions to these monkey puzzles were ultimately trivial. I keep this...

• ## Mathematical Cryptography

A presentation on the past, present and future of Mathematical Cryptography

• ## Optimization - Convex Analysis Review

Convex Analysis Review Notes Or, everything you ever needed to know from… Convex analysis? Convex Sets Let $$S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$$. The set $$S$$ is called Convex if for any $$x_1, x_2 \in S$$ and $$\lambda \in (0,1)$$, it holds that $\lambda x_1 + (1 - \lambda) x_2 \in S$ A...