10 April 2024

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Support networks - Nicolas Bouliane

I wanted to create a community, yet I was oblivious to the oldest support network in the world.

Understanding loss.backward()

Relying on any library is not good; therefore, this time, removing this black box and understand what’s happening inside. Writing a backward pass manually would be helpful. Backpropagation is not something that works magically or automatically if you are hopin…

The tale of a GSM Kernel LPE

Through fuzzing via my local custom syzkaller instance and auditing via semgrep and codeql queries I was lucky enough to find a bug in the linux module n_gsm.c. This module is used to implement the GSM 07.10 multiplexing protocol. This type of error was “Race …

Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?

When installing Windows 98, the part of the setup process where you enter things like product details looks... different. The scrollbars, buttons, title bar and such look more like they belong in W...

String Performance: Slicing a String

The content presents an alternative approach to obtaining a substring using slicing with ReadOnlySpan and AsSpan() methods, delivering performance improvement of 2.4 times based on benchmark tests.…

Cow Magnets | Stanford Magnets

Cow magnets are very popular with farmers, ranchers, and veterinarians since they are a well-known method of preventing hardware disease in cattle.