I was reading an article the other day and I came across the term "web crawler". The context in which it was used got me a little curious about the design of a web crawler. A web crawler is a simple program that scans or "crawls" through web pages to create an index of the … Continue reading How To Build A Web Crawler?
Author: Prateek Joshi
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Perceiving The Perceptron
If you are hearing the word "perceptron" for the first time, it sounds a lot like a futuristic robot which can perceive things right? Well, that's not exactly what it means! Perceptron is a machine learning algorithm for supervised classification. It is one of the very first algorithms to be formulated in the field of … Continue reading Perceiving The Perceptron
Reimann Hypothesis And Its Connection To Cryptography
Over the centuries, mathematicians have been involved in solving some of most complex problems. But what is the motivation behind that? The pursuit of truth! But The Clay Mathematics Institute thought that there should be a little more than that. So to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, they established seven Millennium Prize Problems. The … Continue reading Reimann Hypothesis And Its Connection To Cryptography
Onion Routing
I was recently reading some literature about data encryption and I stumbled across an interesting concept. The classic secure communication model is the one where the sender encrypts the message and sends it across the network, which is then decrypted at the receiver's end. In real life, this is done over several networks and several … Continue reading Onion Routing
The Power Of A/B
Designing a website is more of an art than a science. There are a million different ways to design a website and achieve a particular goal. We want our websites to eventually become popular and make money. Once the site is designed, it cannot be stagnant for long either. But how do we know if … Continue reading The Power Of A/B
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Near Field Communication (NFC) is a form of contactless communication between devices like smartphones or tablets. Contactless communication allows a user to wave the smartphone over a NFC compatible device to send information without needing to touch the devices together or go through multiple steps setting up a connection. This is very fast and convenient. … Continue reading Near Field Communication (NFC)
The Butterfly Effect
This blog post is a continuation of my previous post on Chaos Theory. Although it is not required for you to read that post to understand this post, it would be better if you glance through it once. All of us have heard about the Butterfly Effect. It is one of the very famous examples … Continue reading The Butterfly Effect
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory is a mathematical sub-discipline that attempts to explain the fact that complex and unpredictable results can and will occur in systems that are sensitive to their initial conditions. Some common examples of systems that chaos theory helped understand are earth's weather system, the behavior of water boiling on a stove, migratory patterns of … Continue reading Chaos Theory
Python Development In Eclipse
As your code gets bigger, effective code management becomes an integral part of your project. This post is about setting up Python development environment in Eclipse. Most of the Python developers will already be aware of this. For those of you who are not, read on. Eclipse is an IDE which supports many different languages. It … Continue reading Python Development In Eclipse
Operation Aurora
On January 14, 2010 McAfee Labs identified a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer that was used as an entry point for Operation Aurora to exploit Google and at least 20 other companies. Microsoft issued a security bulletin and patch immediately. Operation Aurora was a coordinated attack which included a piece of computer code that … Continue reading Operation Aurora
Perpetual Enigma 