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Privacy as game theory (2023-02-23)

Trying to apply game theory to Internet privacy, leads to the conclusion that to get the trust of their users, a company should have both upper and lower bounds on how extensively they use user personal data.

Three Privacy Threat Models, and How to Mitigate (2023-02-11)

You can break down the data privacy threats into three layers: device, network, and servers.

Trust Experience (2021-06-01)

Announcing my new role tackling the most difficult problem of privacy: how to give an average user transparency and meaningful control of their data.

Hill-Shading the Mandelbrot Set (2021-01-29)

Mandelbrot images and videos I generated.

Covid Death Update (2020-07-12)

Back during the depths of Covid I wrote visualizations of the death rates, done completely in CSS with no JavaScript.

Making PP (2020-05-17)

Introducing passprint, my debugging tracing JavaScript utility that is convenient when coding in a functional style.

Bajel, A Simple, Flexible Build and Scripting Tool for NPM (2020-05-22)

Introducing Bajel, my Makefile-inspired build system for the JavaScript environment.

Smoothish library for smoothing time series data (2020-04-12)

Introducing Smoothish, my JavaScript data-smoothing library

Spaced Repetition Algorithm for a Flashcard App (2019-11-05)

I built a flashcard web app Kartoj to help learn languages using the spaced repetition algorithm.

Learning from Successful Democracy (2019-01-21)

Democracy in Ireland.

The Inverse Square Law of Bias (2018-12-31)

A mathematical model shows minority experience of bias relative to the majority experience goes up with the square of how underrepresented they are.

Will the technocratic elites suffer the same fate as 18c aristocrats and 19c capitalists? (2016-11-13)

Will resurgent religious fundamentalism and right-wing nationalism, together with the Internet revolution, kill off a world in which multinational corporations and a technocratic elite thrive among increasing inequality?