Sifting for Gems

These bi-weekly notes represent a wide range of topics, from learning new technologies and courses to exploring cybersecurity and data science. Stay curious and keep exploring the world of learning and technology!

Sifting for Gems

Wed, Nov 15

Learn Next.js - A comprehensive guide to learn Next.js and build a dashboard app.
Jay Trading - A platform for stock picking and trading recommendations.
Zero to ASIC Course - A course to learn and master the art of designing and manufacturing ASICs.
How do semiconductors work? - A documentation that explains the workings of semiconductors in an easily understandable manner.

Tue, Nov 14

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - A blog exploring statistical modeling and causal inference in social sciences.

Sun, Nov 13

WAF through the eyes of hackers - An insight into web application firewalls from a hacker’s perspective.
Pydantic is all you need - A concise introduction to Pydantic, a powerful data validation library for Python.
Rails Documentary - An upcoming documentary about the history and impact of the Ruby on Rails framework.
Democratizing the future of education - An article discussing the potential of technology in making education accessible to all.

Fri, Nov 10

Transforming Deep Learning Education with Yann LeCun and Alfredo Canziani’s Free Online Course - An overview of a free online course on deep learning by Yann LeCun and Alfredo Canziani.
Learn Prompting: Your Guide to Communicating with AI - A comprehensive guide to effectively communicate with AI models using prompts.
CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python - A beginner-friendly course that introduces the fundamentals of artificial intelligence using Python.

Thu, Nov 9

A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT 2 - An interesting project that recreates ChatGPT using a minimal C implementation.
A Complete List of All Adversarial Example Papers - A comprehensive list of research papers on adversarial examples in machine learning.
pidof - A command-line tool that helps find the process ID associated with a given process name.

Wed, Nov 8

LTTng v2.13 - Documentation on LTTng, a lightweight tracing framework for Linux.

Tue, Nov 7

aquasecurity/kube-bench - A tool to check if Kubernetes is deployed securely according to best practices defined in CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
docker/docker-bench-security - A script that checks for best practices around deploying Docker containers securely.
The Center for Advanced Red Teaming (CART) - A center at University at Albany focused on advancing red teaming methodologies for cybersecurity.
Embrace The Red - A blog exploring various red teaming techniques and methodologies.
Nexus Venture Partners - A venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies.
Deploying multiple dockerized apps to a single DigitalOcean droplet using docker-compose contexts - A tutorial on deploying multiple Docker applications to a single DigitalOcean droplet using docker-compose contexts.

Sun, Nov 6

Security Lake - A newsletter focusing on detection engineering and security in the modern technological landscape.
python - Deploying a minimal flask app in docker - server connection issues - A helpful Stack Overflow thread discussing server connection issues when deploying a Flask app in Docker.

Sat, Nov 5

A Minimalist End-to-End Scrapy Tutorial (Part V) - The fifth part of a comprehensive tutorial series on Scrapy, a powerful web scraping framework.
FHIR Data Ingestion using GCP’s Cloud Healthcare API(Part -1) - A tutorial on ingesting FHIR data using Google Cloud’s Healthcare API.

Fri, Nov 4

Mental Models - A course that introduces various mental models for better decision-making and problem-solving.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source LLMs - An interview exploring how open-source language learning models can compete with proprietary models like GPT-4.

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