Category Archives: Microsoft

Password Strength Is A Hard Problem

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Gaius

We are all familiar with the classic advice on password strength, a mix of lowercase, uppercase, symbols, numbers, of a certain length. It is trivial to construct a validator for password strength in Python The problem with this is that … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Professional Program Cybersecurity

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Gaius

In a previous job, amongst many other things I was responsible for the tending of a small herd of HP DL-whatever servers, ~1500 machines all running RHEL. These were considered mission-critical for the business unit. I used various tools for … Continue reading →

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Learning a New Language

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Gaius

Generally, every program I write, regardless of what useful thing it actually does, and regardless of what programming language it is written in, has to do certain things, which usually includes Importing a library and calling functions contained within that … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Professional Program Artificial Intelligence

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Gaius

Building on the momentum† of completing the Data Science track of the Microsoft Professional Program, and inspired by the amazing season 2 of Westworld, I have now also completed the Artificial Intelligence track, Microsoft’s internal AI course just opened to the … Continue reading →

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WSL is a Game Changer

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Gaius

Why did we (developers) flock to Macbooks? Even if using platform-agnostic languages and/or writing applications that would run on servers, we wanted portable Unix workstations with a high build quality and none of the hardware compatibility issues that come with … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Professional Program Data Science

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Gaius

I’ve finally gotten around to completing the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science, which I started nearly a year ago. It’s a pretty comprehensive sequence of courses that gives a solid grounding in (and/or revision of!): Probability and Statistics (the … Continue reading →

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