Ismail Khoffi liamsi

Mathematics: What do grad students in math do all day?

A lot of math grad school is reading books and papers and trying to understand what's going on. The difficulty is that reading math is not like reading a mystery thriller, and it's not even like reading a history book or a New York Times article.

The main issue is that, by the time you get to the frontiers of math, the words to describe the concepts don't really exist yet. Communicating these ideas is a bit like trying to explain a vacuum cleaner to someone who has never seen one, except you're only allowed to use words that are four letters long or shorter.

What can you say?

Install

Either copy the aliases from the .gitconfig or run the commands in add-pr-alias.sh

Usage

Easily checkout local copies of pull requests from remotes:

git pr 4 - creates local branch pr/4 from the github upstream(if it exists) or origin remote and checks it out
git pr 4 someremote - creates local branch pr/4 from someremote remote and checks it out

JavaScript Crypto Libraries

List some crypto libraries for JavaScript out there. Might be a bit out dated. Scroll to the bottom.

WebCryptoAPI

http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/

This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications.

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

##Set up mosh (mobile shell) on Uberspace and Mac

First of all you have to email the Uberspace team ([email protected]) and ask for opening an UDP port for mosh (don't forget to mention your username and uberspace server [you can get it with the command hostname]).

####On the Uberspace server:

Issue following command to execute the script from below:

curl -L http://goo.gl/PBo45c | bash

GPG / Mutt / Gmail

About

This is a collection of snippets, not a comprehensive guide. I suggest you start with Operational PGP.

Here is an incomplete list of things that are different from other approaches:

I don't use keyservers. Ever.
Yes, I use Gmail instead of some bespoke hipster freedom service

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	function [data, h] = import_edr(file)
	% function [data, h] = import_edr(file)
	%
	% Imports .edr file to matrix
	% for use with files output by WinEDR,
	% http://spider.science.strath.ac.uk/sipbs/page.php?show=software_ses
	% but created independently
	%
	% ---------------inputs------------------------------
	% file .edr file name ( e.g. 'File_001.EDR')

	// Traverses an arbitrary struct and translates all stings it encounters
	//
	// I haven't seen an example for reflection traversing an arbitrary struct, so
	// I want to share this with you. If you encounter any bugs or want to see
	// another example please comment.
	//
	// The MIT License (MIT)
	//
	// Copyright (c) 2014 Heye Vöcking
	//

	package main

	import (
	"bytes"
	"code.google.com/p/go.crypto/openpgp"
	"encoding/base64"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	)