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SAT and JAP
These test can cause a bit of stress, not because they are “hard,” but for them being so long. If the SAT wasn’t so long, I’d have no problem taking one. Anyways, despite the title of my blog being called SAT. It’s not about the SAT I will be taking tomorrow. It’s a bit of [...]
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
If you ever decide to do something as stupid as build an
automatic terrorism detector, here’s a math lesson you need to
learn first. It’s called “the paradox of the false positive,” and it’s a
doozy.
Say you have a new disease, called SuperAIDS.
Only one in a
million people gets SuperAIDS.
You develop a test for SuperAIDS
that’s 99 percent accurate. I [...]
IT’S BEEN A WHILE…
It’s been a while since my last post. I guess I just didn’t have the time. My schedules been insane I guess, well… not entirely. I’ve been watching a lot of anime lol! Working out at the Y almost everyday, and spending time working on the ZocialNET, developing a website for this company, college admissions [...]
Writing my college admissions essay, and getting recommendations
Nothing has ever really scared me in life, I’m not sure why. Perhaps it is my ataraxia in life. So anyways, I’m writing my college admissions essay, and I want it to be good, I want it to be the best damn essay I ever wrote, but my mind is numb, and I have nothing, [...]