Stefan Kühnel @stefankuehnel@mastodon.cloud

Black-Scholes Formula — Part I (Probability and Stochastics for finance) by Prof. Joydeep Dutta

Link: https://youtu.be/mPXBbQDWJWg

Portable Secret by Marco Primi

A ‘Portable Secret’ is an HTML file that contains (1) an encrypted payload and (2) some Javascript that calls into the browser’s Web Cryptography APIs.

Any (reasonably modern) web browser can open the file, even without an internet connection! If one knows the password, one can recover the secret within.

Link: https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret
Link: https://mprimi.github.io/portable-secret/creator/
Link: https://github.com/mprimi/portable-secret

Simple Rules for Hiring Men

Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never_Hire_Brilliant_Men

Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Andrew Wiles in Conversation with Hannah Fry

In a fascinating interview Andrew talked about his own motivations, his belief in the importance of struggle and resilience and his recipe for the better teaching of his subject, a subject he clearly loves deeply.

Link: https://youtu.be/uQgcpzKA5jk

Investigate Internet Latency

Link: https://github.com/apenwarr/blip
Link: https://gfblip.appspot.com

Explain Shell Commands

Link: https://explainshell.com

Linus Torvalds on Word-Wrapping Git Commit Messages.

Link: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5661185

What to Blog About by Simon Willison.

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221106212028/https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/

How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted

Link: https://youtu.be/8dhp_20j0Ys

An Exact Formula for the Primes: Willans' Formula by Eric Rowland

Although it is very inefficient, it serves as an example of how basic arithmetic and trigonometric functions can be used as a programming language.

Link: https://youtu.be/j5s0h42GfvM
Link: https://doi.org/10.2307/3611701

shot-scraper by Simon Willison

A command-line utility for taking automated screenshots of websites build on Playwright.

Link: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/14/automating-screenshots/

Beej's Guide to C Programming

Link: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/

Programming from the Ground Up by Jonathan Bartlett

Understand how assembly language and computer programming works.

Link: https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf

Discrete Adversarial Attacks and Submodular Optimization with Applications to Text Classification

Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.00151

Compiler Explorer by Matt Godbolt

It is an interactive compiler exploration website. Edit code in C, C++, C#, F#, Rust, Go, D, Haskell, Swift, Pascal, ispc, Python, Java or in any of the other 30+ supported languages, and see how that code looks after being compiled in real time.

Link. https://godbolt.org/

Number Theory: Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes

Link: https://youtu.be/Kqi_6v2RGB0
Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-solves-stubborn-riddle-about-prime-number-look-alikes-20221013/

Open Graph Image Generation with Vercel's Edge Functions.

Link: https://npm.im/@vercel/og
Link: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions/og-image-generation
Link: https://og-playground.vercel.app/

Automatic Creation of Table of Contents in JavaScript.

Link: https://jsfiddle.net/Lnu1ejr6/1/

Nested Section Counters in CSS.

Link: https://jsfiddle.net/5ev6ntym/1/