Breaking & Securing the Web: An HTTP Credential Sniffer and Analyzer Project – DEV Community

Introduction As part of my continuous exploration of application security, I worked on a practical project to comprehend the practical dangers of sending data without encryption. Even though theoretical knowledge is important, nothing helps to cement comprehension like extracting real-time credentials from network data. With the “HTTP Credential Sniffer & Secure Transmission Analyzer,” I delved […]

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#9 – “Institutions Can’t Beat A Basic Buy and Hold Allocation” – Meb Faber Research

Pension funds’ annualized aggregate returns since 2000 have been virtually identical to a simple 60-40 index portfolio.  That feels somewhat expected it seems, but what about the true crème de la crème, the top institutions. Surely they could beat a simple buy and hold allocation? Turns out, they really can’t. Below we recall an article […]

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Sequence Modeling with CTC

Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]

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Metaverse developer The Sandbox lays off 50% of staff and pivots to meme coin launchpad

Key Takeaways The Sandbox is laying off over 50% of its workforce and moving away from metaverse projects. The company will soon unveil a meme coin launchpad on Base. Share this article The Sandbox, the high-profile metaverse and NFT platform backed by Animoca Brands, is undergoing a large-scale restructuring and executive transition, according to a […]

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