Wiring up an eBike Rear Light
Or: How I learned me some circuits and KiCad Last year I bought a K6 Pro (K6F) Euybike. I rode nearly 2k miles the first year commuting around Los Angeles. I really wish the city would dispense with the cars and embrace…
Documentation for Progress
I’ve noticed in my work recently that documenting my work is one of the most reliable ways of making steady progress. I likely gathered the idea from the internet somewhere, or perhaps from the generous amounts of advice spewed forth…
Building Linguistic Structure
Yesterday, I had an interesting thought. My advisor once made the cultural observation that many people in Computer Science invent their own language and then immediately write a self-hosting compiler. I agree that a compiler is quite a feat of…
Revisiting Cascade
I did an earlier post about finding a decentralized solution to the Cascade Failure problem. I was fortunate enough to explore this topic a bit more in depth by proposing it as my term project for the Distributed Systems class….
Preventing Cascade Failure in Networks
For some reason I was thinking about the cascade failure problem that I mentioned before my Holiday Hiatus. I discovered that this problem has gone largely unsolved when attending ACSAC ’08, and it’s been in the back of my mind…
ACSAC 2008
So, I went to ACSAC the other week, and sketched out some crazy notes: It seems that nobody is really working on large scale distributed systems reliability. By this I mean things like the Internet and the Power Grid. Both…
More Accurate Speedometer
I’ve been sitting on this idea for at least a year, and I’m not really sure why I haven’t blogged about it yet. It turns out that car speedometers are not very accurate. In fact, they can be on the…
Bounding Problution.
Problutions (noun, pl.): the problems that are an inherent part of solution to a very difficult and complex problem. These problems arise from within the solution itself, and are extrinsic to the original problem. Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit…
The Dryer Protocol
I’m becoming increasingly interested in systems engineering, but still don’t really know much about the subject. One thing that I read about recently (though I completely forgot where) was about how to choose a robust cooperation protocol, using the communal…