Jan 26Member-onlyImprove at Chess by Analyzing Your OpeningsSimple steps to take your chess game to the next level. — Introduction Chess is experiencing a resurgence in popularity, with more and more people discovering (or rediscovering) their passion for the game. The goal to improve is shared among chess enthusiasts, regardless of whether they are just starting out or have been playing for a while. With the rise of online chess…Chess6 min readChess6 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jul 13, 2022Member-onlyBest Practices for Writing Reproducible and Maintainable Jupyter NotebooksSimple steps to make your Jupyter Notebooks great — Introduction Writing Jupyter Notebooks that are reproducible, maintainable, and easy to understand is not as easy as you might think. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s actually really hard. In this article, I’m going to explain why it is so hard and give you some recommendations for best practices that…Machine Learning10 min readMachine Learning10 min read
Published inBetter Humans·Jun 20, 2022Member-onlyMy Workflow for Reading Scientific PapersA simple workflow that dramatically improved the way I organize and consume scientific papers and allows me to remember their content forever. — I’ve always been interested in research. Due to my passion for security and machine learning, I’m particularly interested in security weaknesses in machine learning. In the last few years also the interest of the machine learning community in this topic has been increased dramatically and a lot of scientific literature…Productivity12 min readProductivity12 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jun 14, 2022Member-onlyTraining a Neural Network With a Few, Clean Lines of CodeReusable, maintainable and easy to understand machine learning code — Less code usually results in readable code that is easy to understand and easy to maintain. The Python programming language, that has become very popular in the machine learning community, allows you to achieve great results with less code compared to other programming languages. PyTorch is a popular deep learning…Machine Learning7 min readMachine Learning7 min read
Published inInfoSec Write-ups·May 9, 2022Member-onlyThe Basics of Subdomain TakeoversA subdomain takeover is a vulnerability which allows an attacker to serve content from a subdomain which is not owned by that attacker. The most common situations which make a subdomain takeover possible are: 1) the CNAME record of the affected subdomain points to a domain that can be claimed…Bug Bounty10 min readBug Bounty10 min read
Published inMLearning.ai·Jan 12, 2022Member-onlyMNIST — Dataset of Handwritten DigitsMNIST is a widely used dataset of handwritten digits that contains 60,000 handwritten digits for training a machine learning model and 10,000 handwritten digits for testing the model. It was introduced in 1998 and has become a standard benchmark for classification tasks. It is also called the “Hello, World” dataset…Machine Learning5 min readMachine Learning5 min read
Dec 12, 2021Member-onlyLogfile Vulnerability Log4Shell for RCEThis article briefly describes a critical zero-day vulnerability called Log4Shell that existed in the widely used Java logging library Log4j used by millions of Java applications reachable from the Internet. …Log4j4 min readLog4j4 min read
Nov 30, 2021Member-onlyEnabling Disk Encryption in a NutshellThe goal of this article is to present the minimal steps required to create an encrypted filesystem on a USB drive on Ubuntu. It is intended for people who are already familiar with the basic concepts and don’t need an explanation for each single step. The Nutshell — Create an Encrypted Device Let’s assume your device is…Disk2 min readDisk2 min read
Oct 4, 2021Member-onlyBecome a Security Expert With Security FlashcardsDue to the dramatically increasing number of cyber security threats, security has become a top priority for many companies and even for people operating only small websites. Unfortunately, due to their countless variants and the constantly and rapidly changing threat landscape keeping track with the latest developments is almost impossible. …Cybersecurity4 min readCybersecurity4 min read
May 11, 2021Member-onlyEvolution Strategies can be used to create adversarial examples to fool image classifiers in a…Evolution Strategies can be used to create adversarial examples to fool image classifiers in a black-box setting and three variants are compared in a recently published paper. Compared to a…Evolutionary Algorithms1 min readEvolutionary Algorithms1 min read
