Essays
178 essays, 2013 to 2025.
2025
2024
2023
- Some important differences between the meaning of wisdom in East and West
- Do you believe your thoughts?
- What Is Our Philosophical View?
- Creating Software Through Experiencing the Domain
- The Eclipsing of Wisdom by the Cult of Celebrity
- Answering Common Questions about DesignFlow
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Effective Communication
- The Three Eras of Knowledge Objects
2022
- The Missing Half of Programmatic
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Evaluation of Ideas
- Thinking about Ideas as a System: Ideas as Cost
- The Three Fundamental Principles of Software Projects
- The Pyramid of Goodness for Research and Development Organizations
- Quantum Coin Toss
- Our Commitment to Ecologically Sustainable Online Advertising
2021
- How Much Does an Ad Impression Emit Carbon?
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: The Actual Method
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: The Five Fives
- Moving Towards Ecologically Sustainable Advertising: Introduction
- Is carbon neutrality a viable solution for reaching sustainability goals?
- New Rules of Advertising: Zero Data
- New Rules of Advertising
2020
2019
- 14 Thoughts on Being Friends with Small Children
- Hidden costs of deep learning
- Automated Research and Beyond: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
- How to (not) buy an online ad impression?
- Is GDPR unfair to smaller publishers?
- Creating brand safe markets in a digital world
- Is advertising what’s wrong with the internet?
- Unlocking the human future of the internet
- Thou Shalt Not Fear Automatons
2018
- Big publishers a safe-haven for advertisers. Fact or fiction?
- (tested) 5-Minute Hello World Blockchain with Ethereum on Mac or Ubuntu
- Deploying / Publishing Python Packages to PyPi with Travis (works)
- Hyperparameter Optimization with Keras
- A Comprehensive List of Hyperparameter Optimization & Tuning Solutions
2017
- Native Advertising, FTC Policy, and Children
- TOTES: Online Advertising Threat Exposure Suppression
- Comprehensive List of COPPA Enforcements and Fines
- Event Latency Scaled --- --- --- 1 CPU cycle 0.3 ns 1 s Level 1 cache access 0.9 ns 3 s Level 2 cache access 2.8 ns 9 s Level 3 cache…
- Decimal Hexadecimal Binary --- --- --- 0 0 0000 1 1 0001 2 2 0010 3 3 0011 4 4 0100 5 5 0101 6 6 0110 7 7 0111 8 8 1000 9 9 1001 10 A 1010…
- This is how scaling looks like
- From the inception of the wireless system, I saw that this new art of applied electricity would be of greater benefit to the human race…
- WTF is adToken?! A Primer to Ad Network 2.0 Schemes
- Data as Cost — Big Cakes are Nice if you Like Cake
- Internet on Ad Fraud – Prelude
- Five Essential Points on Data Visualization
- Jigme Lingpa on Sickness
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (10) – Afterword
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (2) – History
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (3) – Symptoms
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (4) – Nature and Composition
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (5) – Causes
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (6) – From First Sensation to Development and the Mistake of Procrastination
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (7) – Treatment
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer (9) – Prevention
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Introduction
- Light on Pranayama
- Thoughts on Pseudo Decentralization
- Introduction to Mind Training
- Learning Something New
- Motivation
- On Spiritual Development
- The Eight Important Points of Cancer – Short Background to Master Cheng
- How to Buy Ethereum in 5 Minutes without Feeling Like an Idiot
- Demystifying Buddhism — Part 1 — Prelude
- Pixalate’s Secret War on Xindi Botnet (Intro) — Full. Spectrum. Goddamn. Cyber.
- How to Move Your Medium Posts to Wordpress (tested)
- Three Reasons Why Everyone Should Consider Using Ad Blocker
- Solving the problem of problem solving
- Anti Ad Fraud Company’s Guide to Countering Facepalm
- Dark Side of Google – Ad Fraud
- This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things
- Economic Centralization
- Fundamental Centralization
- Information Centralization
- Internet of Centralization
2016
- Impact of Invalid Traffic on Vendor Profitability
- Entropy and Invalid Traffic Detection
- Reminiscences of an Adtech Operator, Chapter Two
- The Macrobiotic Way of Life
- Things I Learned Building the Skynet PART 2 — How to Eat Dust
- If DDoS attacks trigger ads, does it mean the attacker is the target?
- Pseudo-randomness is the opposite of randomness
- Things I Learned Building the Skynet
- Big Publishers Attack Brave the Browser — Round 2
- How Much Faster Does LC_ALL=C Make Things in Shell?
- The Web Is Not Blocked — The Big Publishers and Adtech Are
- Busting Malvertising Myths – How Malware Enters the Online Advertising Supply-Chain
- Busting Malvertising Myths – The Role of Adtech Industry in Malvertising
- Demystifying Causality — How to Move from Guesswork to Knowing
- Don’t Drink the L.E.A.N Koolaid
- What In the Actual #$%@ Is Going On with the Big Publishers’ Attack Against Brave?
- Online Anonymity for Researchers – The Simple Edition
- Comprehensive List of Major Publishers Reported in Malvertising Attacks
- Malvertising, a Serious Threat to Internet Users, Business and Society?
- Disable Twitter’s New “Best Tweets” Timeline Feature in 15 Seconds or Less
- Glossary of Tracking Tags
- References for Thank You For Ad Blocking
- Reminiscences of an Adtech Operator
- Why Block Ads?
- Open Letter to IAB Sweden on Ad Blocking
- Announcing the Advertising Technology Wall of Facepalm
- On the Importance of Fostering Good Communication with Security Researchers
- What IAB is Not Telling You About Ad Blocking
- Eight Ad Fraud Predictions Nobody in Adtech Wants to Make — part 1
- Eight Ad Fraud Predictions Nobody in Adtech Wants to Make — part 2
2015
- WTF is Going on with Ad Fraud?!
- RESEARCHER: Here is the Fight Against Ad Fraud > #JOINFAST #GG
- A Comprehensive List of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) Vendors
- DIRECT_BUY_POISONING: How Data Spam Leaves Transactions Vulnerable to Fraud
- Ad Fraud Does Matter, Rick Webb
- Golden Age of Windows XP Based Botnets Just Started
- Why Ad Companies Should Not Use a Cease and Desist with Security Researchers
- Botlab patch #1: block AWS IP ranges entirely
- “How About Ad Fraud Barry Adams?”
- Six Kinds of Perpetrators
- ad fraud expose: digital media supply chain like you’ve never seen before
- JCR Licklider - The Great Inspiration
- Understanding the Four Kinds of Online Advertising Fraud
- How Large is the Online Advertising Fraud Problem?
- Online Advertising Fraud: Who Is Operating It?
- Online Advertising Fraud: Why You Have to Read the ANA / White Ops Report
- Isolated System
- The Causes of a Thermodynamic System
- The 6,804 Types of Trading Desk - An Ontological Commentary on Trading Desks
2014
- What is Science?
- Einstein’s Fairy Tale
- The Song of Gyalwa Gotsangpa on How to Practice with Illness
- McKinsey Global Institute From poverty to empowerment: India’s imperative for jobs, growth, and effective basic services 3 The importance…
- On Causality and the Time of Our Death
- Dispelling Programmatic Myths: The Brand Trading Desk Opportunity
- A Call for Debate on the Points Made in the WFA’s Guide to Programmatic Media
- The Public Debate on WFA’s Guide to Programmatic Media
- Commentary on Data Ownership
- WFA Guide to Programmatic Media: What Every Advertiser Should Know About Media Markets
- What are Thoughts?
- Why CAPTCHA is Not a Viable Solution for Dealing with Online Advertising Fraud?
- Proteins are Neat: how to reduce the symptoms of your flu?
- Basic Guidelines
- Why Does the Universe Exist?
- The Repackaging Opportunity
- On Non-Sensical Talk
- Algos for Hire
- The Path to Equanimity Goes Through Concentration and Renunciation
- The Quantum Problem and Christian Rhetoric
- Universal Theory of…
- When I’m not High…
- The Five Laws of Computer Program Efficiency
- P-values indicate confidence on the test, not on the data or finding
- Brave new computing
- From Writing Software to Hacking Hardware
- From input to learning
- The Internal and External Aspects of Data Science
- It’s not just a data revolution, it’s a science revolution.
- Why Singularity’s Goal Can’t Be Achieved?
- An autopsy of a data scientist
- What is Programming? - The Definition of Programming
- causes and constituent
- The Problem of Singularity
- Truth vs. Justified True Belief
- When you want to know if someone feels happy for something that you’ve done to their benefit, and if it really is a benefit, you have to…
- Loss is a situation where we have the expectation of a certain result, but end up with something we feel is inferior. So when we say that…
- There is really no such thing as having a flu, is there? When you feel hot or tired or lethargy or whatever, then of course there is the…