Analyzing One Million robots.txt Files
Insights gathered from analyzing the robots.txt files of Alexa’s top one million domains.
Check If A Website or URL Has Been Submitted to StumbleUpon
A simple tool to check the status of a URL in StumbleUpon’s index, along with a description of how it works.
Fantasy Football for Hackers
Building a draft strategy from the ground up.
Installing Google Chrome On CentOS, Amazon Linux, or RHEL
A guide to getting Google Chrome running on RHEL variants.
How Are Principal Component Analysis and Singular Value Decomposition Related?
Exploring the relationship between singular value decomposition and principal component analysis.
Scraping User-Submitted Reviews from the Steam Store
An introduction to Scrapy though a realistic project.
Making Chrome Headless Undetectable
Using MitmProxy and injected JavaScript feature mocks to bypass Headless Chrome detection tests.
Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained
A look at why Chebyshev’s Inequality holds true and some potential applications.
Patching a Linux Kernel Module
A case-study in debugging and patching kernel-level issues on Linux.
Understanding Neural Network Weight Initialization
Exploring the effects of neural network weight initialization strategies.