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thewizardofaus

397 karma · joined February 1, 2018

Current Elite Athlete (Australian representative) and Electrical Engineer & Computer Scientist.

Also running my own sports tech startup from scratch as the only person.

Feel free to reach out !

Email: 6C6163686C616E70616765393740676D61696C2E636F6D

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thewizardofaus··on Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
Wow that's amazing! Good job :)
thewizardofaus··on Confessions of a Fake News Writer
I find that I'm significantly happier when I don't read or watch the news. In this case; ignorance is bliss.
thewizardofaus··on Ask HN: Who here has built a profitable startup while keeping their day job?
Sleep is good for the soul and mind! I don't know how people can go for extended times without sleep and still be productive...
thewizardofaus··on Australia pushes for spyware on phones
South Australia was founded by settlers that chose to move to Australia, not convicts.
thewizardofaus··on App-Only Banks Rise in Europe and Aim at Traditional Lenders
Yeah I don't really understand that statement in the article either. A computer fault can affect any company in the banking industry - irrespective of if they are "app" only.
thewizardofaus··on Java Is Still Free
You could say the same thing about java script
thewizardofaus··on Hacking an assault tank...a Nerf one
Awesome read! Any tips or books on how to learn reverse engineering firmware? It's pretty overwhelming
thewizardofaus··on The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead
The key travel is very important. When you can type 140+ Words per minute key travel becomes important to stop rsi in the wrist.
thewizardofaus··on Google throws away 12 years of work by investors (Portfolios in Google Finance)
Yahoo finance has been around for a very long time!
thewizardofaus··on Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac
An affordable and upgradable Mac is known as a ThinkPad.
thewizardofaus··on Procedurally Generating Islands (2017)
Perlin noise is my favourite noise. It's quite awesome what you can achieve with a couple octaves of it.
thewizardofaus··on Show HN: Permafrost Engine – OpenGL 3.3 Real Time Strategy Engine in C
Awesome!!!! I've slowly been working on my own engine in OpenGL. There's something so magical about it. Congrats!
thewizardofaus··on The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks
As a fellow tall person myself, I will pray for you lol.
thewizardofaus··on A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer
Awesome! :)
thewizardofaus··on How World of Warcraft Was Made
You and I share similar memories friend. I look back to WOW with such nostalgia. I became totally obsessed with that game. It was like heroin to my teenage self. A part of me always wants to go back but the game almost ruined my life !
thewizardofaus··on AMD ROCm GPU Support for TensorFlow
IT'S ABOUT F!$KING TIME :)
thewizardofaus··on Office Life Is Destroying Your Butt
Look into adductor/abductor stretches along with hamstring stretches. Tight hips and hammys will pull on your pelvis and cause back pain.
thewizardofaus··on Startup School Advisor Track: You Are In
I find it interesting how badly this has affected some people. It seems that a large majority are upset from gloating about it in on their "networks". Perhaps this is a lesson that you shouldn't need to rely on YC to succeed.
thewizardofaus··on Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy
That was interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing :-)
thewizardofaus··on Breaking into the Government Account of Every Portuguese Citizen and Entity
Excellent write-up!
thewizardofaus··on Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year
Many people shorted TSLA at $380 because, you know, easy money
thewizardofaus··on An Android Spy App Left 1.7M Passwords and Nude Photos Exposed to Hackers
How would you get involved in this sort of security research? It's been an interest of mine for awhile. I have experience in reverse engineering binary files and malware but not so much experience in the "live internet stuff".

Would you start with simple CTF tasks?

I assume they used some sort of application to view the http requests that the phone was making and where able to figure out the right endpoints from that?

Thanks in advance.

thewizardofaus··on A Tweet About Hacking Gets a Google Engineer in Trouble
Anything can be made to suit an agenda when taken out of context.

I read the tweet before reading the article. And I understood his intent of the word "attack" immediately.

thewizardofaus··on Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness
Perhaps try and cycle using the light. Couple months using it, one month off etc.
thewizardofaus··on AI Image Classifier – Just create a database and it will learn from it
I don't like the title of this. It is becoming a common theme in Machine Learning. "Let's just get a bunch of data and train a Neural Network on it, eventually it will get it right..right?"
thewizardofaus··on Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series
ML is slowly approaching the blockchain bubble I think. You have ALOT of people just chucking random bs data into insert popular model and hoping for the best.
thewizardofaus··on Ask HN: Would a full time tea/coffee waiter make you more productive?
No. It's always good to get up , stretch your legs and recollect your thoughts on what you need to do.
thewizardofaus··on Introducing Android 9 Pie
Could they cram the world Machine Learning into the article much more? If this was 12 months ago, replace every instance of the word Machine Learning with "blockchain"... Oh boy, gotta love buzzwords.
thewizardofaus··on Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts
I think this has always happened among teens. When Facebook was popular among adolescent groups, FB pages existed that were identical to the messages shared on these "flop accounts".
thewizardofaus··on Twitter shares drop after reporting declining monthly active users
That's why I made quick cash shorting FB and TWTR before earnings. Like taking candy from the wall street babies.
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