Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report provides summarized information from the last 10 years focusing on software vulnerabilities, software vulnerability exploits, malicious, and potentially unwanted software. The report discusses the origin of malware following it through the decade of mutation all the way upto cloud. However, the report does not cover specific threats to cloud in detail…
Following are the resources from my and Tin Zaw's talk @ 10th Annual SecureIT conference- “Practical Web Application Security and OWASP Top 10 implementation on Microsoft Platform” OWASP Top 10 Presentation AppSec Tutorial Videos OWASP Cheat Sheets ASP.NET MVC Best Practices Microsoft Partners in Learning OWASP 2010 Top 10 Cheat Sheet Free eBook: OWASP Top…
Alan Downey, author of one of my most favourite python books, "Python for Software Design: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" did a tutorial session t a tutorial on Bayesian statistics and here is the web page he created for the tutorial. This tutorial is an introduction to Bayesian statistics using Python. Following is the…
Even for a strong believer in convention over configuration like myself, there always will be the need of configuration parameters to be stored for any number of non-trivial applications. Like most things enterprise, the debate for configuration store and its management depends on the various factors including the environment, deployment methodology and type of configuration…
On March 18th, I will be speaking at the 10th Annual SecureIT conference in a workshop titled “Practical Web Application Security and OWASP Top 10 implementation on Microsoft Platform”. This is a joint session with Tin Zaw, chapter leader and president of OWASP LA. Here is the abstract. Practical Web Application Security and OWASP Top…
Bayesian Networks I: Static Models & Multinomial Distributions https://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/images/d/da/Lecture.26.pdf Bayesian Networks II: Dynamic Networks and Markov Chains https://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/images/5/5d/Lecture.27.pdf
Some exciting developments in the area of Quantum Computing at IBM.
Even though Kurtz and Simon proved that a natural generalization of the Collatz problem is algorithmically undecidable, it is still fairly easy to brute force the 3n+1 conjecture with large values of n and empirically see it converge. Project Euler's problem 14 queries about which starting number, under one million, produces the longest sequence? Since Premature optimization is often considered root…
Illustration of the main idea of Bayesian inference, in the simple case of a univariate Gaussian with a Gaussian prior on the mean (and known variances).
Like most production systems, life happens in real time; and there has been several major paradigm shifts happening lately. It's easy to shrug AJAX off as revamped XMLHTTP from late 90's but we all know this isn't exactly the case. With the thought process, frameworks and development around emerging technologies, sands are shifting faster than…