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A Sustainable Thinker Always Wins

You can think about a lot of different things all the time. Think about too many things and this becomes a serious problem, especially for those who have ADD. If you have a problem focusing on which idea to pursue, it is easy to experience the feeling of being lost. Life is happening, ideas come and go, but there is nothing for you to bring to show and tell. I am not an expert in this field of study, but I do pay attention to what constitutes a “great thinker”....

April 26, 2023 · 3 min · breadchris

AI Can't Fold 1000 Cranes

Folding 1000 origami cranes sounds at lot easier than it is. When my engineer mind latched onto the idea of completing this task, I was intrigued by the foretold wish one would get in exchange for folding a bunch of the easiest origami models. Kids do this every year in Japan, how hard could it be? On average, it would take me 5 minutes to fold a crane from start to finish....

April 26, 2023 · 5 min · breadchris

How I Got to Where I Am

So i was in a really good high school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolesville_High_School and so there would be some ridiculously smart people who would work on things and because the program was so close knit, information would disseminate between the grades and so the younger group of kids would only get that much better. I got involved in cyber security because the older kids competed in a competition that was for hacking and they did very well....

April 26, 2023 · 6 min · breadchris

I hacked my high school, and you should too

I have worked for Northrup Grumman and Uber as a security engineer and I built security tools that have been used around the world. The coolest thing that I have done in my life is that I got to help develop code that ran on every device that had Uber installed on it. The purpose of this code was to help the 20% Uber was losing to fraudulent trips. The talent needed to work on a project like this was so rare that I was hired on as the first team member, as an intern and later hired on as a college dropout....

April 26, 2023 · 15 min · breadchris

I hacked your site

It isn’t your fault, you were just doing your job. Even if you wanted to try to stop it, there isn’t much you, as an individual, could do about it. Either I or someone else who vaguely understands how to code was going to hack you like this. Business requirements for shipping that feature out at lighting speed for your largest customer last quarter made this all too easy. const asdf = () => {} Your company’s site uses javascript....

April 26, 2023 · 6 min · breadchris

Information About Gloving

Since the EmazingLights site seems to be down. I have moved the information over here to keep it alive! Start Gloving Welcome to the Learn Gloving Center, the most extensive online resource out there for learning everything you need to know about gloving. Constantly being updated and contributed to by the world’s most knowledgeable glovers, this is your first and best resource for learning what you need to jump into the world of gloving....

April 26, 2023 · 10 min · breadchris

NYU Dropped the Ball

How it went wrong I have a pretty bad taste in my mouth with NYU after what they have done with CSAW over time. The fact that HSF became a CTF, quality went downhill, and then now non-existent is something that really bothers me. It had felt to me that there was a complete disregard for the exceptional talent pipeline that Nasir/Poly had established for continuing to build out cyber security at NYU....

April 26, 2023 · 4 min · breadchris

Start with a Static Site

Ok, there is just simply way too much shit that you have to learn to host a freaking website . Let’s make that easier. Start with Markdown and hugo. Markdown is trivial to learn and making a website is instant. Hugo is a single binary you download, run and boom there is your website. A number of themes are available for you to check out and play with, but they aren’t necessary to start out....

April 26, 2023 · 3 min · breadchris

teach yourself about ai

We are going to be going through a huge upheaval in our world because of AI, and if you want to riding the wave, you should be learning about it now. There are a lot of really good blog posts that talk about AI. I really like this video by 3 blue 1 brown. The series can be listened to by most curious people, and then the last video in the series is where the hard math comes in....

April 26, 2023 · 1 min · breadchris

This is for Nolan

SOLID principles The set of five design principles for object-oriented programming that were first introduced by Robert C. Martin. These principles are intended to make software designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable. In Go, the SOLID principles can be applied as follows: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) Example: type UserService struct { userRepository UserRepository } func (us *UserService) CreateUser(user *User) error { return us.userRepository.Create(user) } func (us *UserService) GetUserByID(id int) (*User, error) { return us....

April 26, 2023 · 10 min · breadchris