Aleksei Magusev

Seems the cat is kind of out of the bag now so today I’m excited to announce my 2nd (and last ever) book “Machine Learning in Elixir” is in beta! #MyElixirStatus pragprog.com/titles/smelixi…

Reddit users are actively jailbreaking ChatGPT by asking it to role-play and pretend to be another AI that can "Do Anything Now" or DAN. "DAN can generate shocking, very cool and confident takes on topics the OG ChatGPT would never take on." A thread 🧵

In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal. It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability. It did not.

/1 How do Apple Pay and Google Pay handle sensitive card info? The diagram below shows the differences. Both approaches are very secure, but the implementations are different. To understand the difference, we break down the process into two flows.

I don't have access to a @PayPal business account, but @atjontv does, and was able to recreate this exact attack, explaining the one part I was unsure on, and confirming the rest. (Screenshots in thread, shared with permission) 🧵

Given the shitty place the world is in right now, I stopped tweeting and just retweeted things about Ukraine 🇺🇦. I'll keep doing that, but I also wanted to announce that I’m working with @elixirlang for @Apple to help with apple.com/2030, which is pretty fantastic.

Which is why TCP behaves this way. Makes sense when explained with that analogy. But now lets talk about UDP packet ordering. 🧵 6/17

Perhaps for the first time, a quantum computer has found gainful employment. Google’s Sycamore quantum computer achieved a state of matter that some physicists say puts a new angle on the distinction between time and space. quantamagazine.org/first-time-cry…

Episode 59: @mrjoelkemp shares how he brought Elixir into @Spotify. We cover how he gained acceptance, the business needs it solved, and the importance of staking your reputation on your recommendation. #ElixirLang @ElixirLang @ElixirPhoenix thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episod…

“Top lessons learned from working with a 10x developer” by Jeffrey Bakker link.medium.com/yQLEcYE6Xgb This is worth reading.

Excited to announce my new book series: "The Art Of Mac Malware" taomm.org 📚 🆓 100% free online 📝 Peer-reviewed & open for comments When published, proceeds will support our #OBTS conference & charity efforts 😍 #SharingIsCaring

#OnThisDay 1959: Monitor made a short film called Hi-Fi-Fo-Fum, about a burgeoning phenomenon; the audiophile. This is absolutely wonderful.

This is such a phenomenal dive into how and why social engineering works, along with some glittery justice. You'll want to watch it all. The biggest ups to @MarkRober, @JimBrowning11, and @ScammerPayback. youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58…

A new big Msgpax release that brings fragment manipulation, complete IEEE 754 support, and extra unpacking optimization: hex.pm/packages/msgpa…

Microsoft Excel the programming language is evolving. With the recent release of LAMBDA, users can now define new functions in the program’s formula language. Learn about the capability & its role in the transformation of spreadsheet formulas: aka.ms/AAaxrqc #POPL2021

Congrats to Vectorized for open sourcing their wonderful Kafka compatible streaming engine, powered by Seastar

Freshly made Forgery—slim yet powerful and extensible data generator in @elixirlang—in collaboration with @hqcam: hex.pm/packages/forge…

Can't miss it if @lexmag speaks there 🎙

New blog post by me about @lemire's nearly divisionless random algorithm. Congrats to @komu_wairagu , @NimrodAviram and an anonymous submitter who won the cash prizes for the most readable implementations. I've included my own, and a really deep dive! veryseriousblog.com/posts/dissecti…