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Robbie Ostrow

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Fun with Timing Attacks

Guess secrets in your browser by timing some stuff!

Stop Fearing Incidental Findings

We have two options for the next hundred years of healthcare: gather as much data as possible and make healthcare better, or – don't – because we're afraid that people will get scared and act unwisely when they see an incidental finding.

Permiscuchess

Chess for people who are good at computers and bad at chess.

Improving Type Safety with ts-json-validator

Let JSON play nicely with Typescript using ts-json-validator.

Taking Types Too Far

Herein we check the Collatz conjecture using only Typescript’s type system.

TINE-CNN Augmentation

TINE-CNN Augmentation (pronounced Tiny-CNN Augmentation) is a new way to perform automatic data augmentation for any image classification task.

Do Basketball Referees Favor the Losing Team?

Basketball fans love a close game. A nail-biter with fifteen lead changes is much more fun to watch than a blowout. But do the refs like close games as much as the rest of us?

Demystifying Ghost

My mother loves words. To this day, she insists that I should become a poet. During a road trip when I was little, she introduced me to a game called Ghost, and we would play all the time.