My gym membership recently expired and I decided not to renew it. Without a membership, I have been working out at home. I get a well-balanced mix of exercises including: pushups, pullups, dips, and situps. It would be nice to have a way to automatically track not only the sets and reps of these workouts, but to measure how well and hard I am doing them. My colleague and I have decided to solve that problem and have started work on an Android app that will automatically track and measure metrics of these exercises. It will make heavy use...
read moreFor a group research study in an Information System’s security class, we decided to research timing attacks. Timing attacks are a type of side-channel attack where timing the execution of a process allows you to learn something about that process. Timing attacks can be used to find passwords, message digests, or other information quickly on vulnerable systems. Timing attacks have the potential to be a critical security risk when programmers do not prevent them. A Vulnerable Algorithm bool compareString(string lhs, string rhs)...
read moreIn the SEO world some shops like to use the result to search ratio AKA “R/S Ratio” to help determine which keywords to pursue. This keyword metric compares the total results of a keyword in a Google search to the search volume of the keyword. Google has a tool that takes a keyword as input and finds related keywords (around 50-100) and outputs the monthly search volume for each keyword in CSV format. In traditional R/S Ratio finding, a human will then search each keyword to find the search volume for the keyword; this is a...
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