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The Book You Wished Your Parents Had Read

August 28, 2020 Carl Leave a comment

I have just finished the eponymous book by Philippa Perry. It’s a far cry from my usual fair, but I was unlikely to find parenting advice or templates in computer science reference books.

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Posted in: Article, Life Filed under: parenting

Stripe CTF 3.0

January 30, 2014 Carl Leave a comment

Sadly, level 3 would not run for me, even with Stripe’s patch, so I could not continue with the competition.…

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Posted in: Article, Python, ruby, Tutorial Filed under: cryptocoin, node, proxy, python, ruby, scala, stripe

A Fractal Height Map Generator in Ruby

May 28, 2013 Carl Leave a comment

[I’m migrating my old articles to the blog in order to switch to it entirely] Date: 25th March 2010 Introduction…

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Posted in: Article, ruby, Tutorial Filed under: diamond, height map, ruby, square, tutorial

Stripe-CTF 2.0

August 29, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

I managed to finish the Stripe CTF with 18 hours to spare and placed no. 702. I’m pretty happy with…

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Posted in: Article, Tech, Tutorial Filed under: cracking, hacking, stripe-ctf

Big displays and tabletops – the wrong approach?

February 19, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The current model Current research trends are in favour of large public displays, hidden projectors, and table top displays –…

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Posted in: Academia, Article Filed under: billboards, conjecture, digital signage, public displays, research, vision

Arduino Gas Sensor – Part 2

January 23, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

Previously So I left the last article with the following: Well apart from the hardware I need, so issues need…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech Filed under: arduino, gas meter, phd

Arduino Gas Meter Sensor – Part 1

December 13, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

Motivation My newly ordered Arduino Uno came in the post today so I got to start building with it! An…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech, Tutorial Filed under: arduino, ldr, light, sensor

4 weeks in corporate research – initial thoughts

August 10, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

So I’ve spent the last 4 weeks in Cambridge working as an intern at Microsoft Research and I thought I’d…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Life Filed under: academia, cambridge, corporate research, microsoft, msr, research

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