Alistair RocheThe unexpected difficulties of connecting to a Tor hidden service with PythonYesterday I was doing something like this in Python:6 min read·Jun 16, 2018--1--1
Alistair RocheinHackerNoon.comLearn to drive before you navigate, even if you’re not pair programmingOne day when I was eighteen, I was sitting in a little lecture theatre with twenty-nine other boys. It was the first morning of our…12 min read·Jun 16, 2018--1--1
Alistair RocheZuck Faces (part 2)There’s a dataset called Labelled Faces In The Wild (LFW) with about 13,000 photos of people scraped from the web. As part of this little…3 min read·May 7, 2018----
Alistair RocheinHackerNoon.comThe Many Faces of Mark Zuckerberg: A Deep Learning Approach (part 1)(Here’s a link to the data I used! Details of the contents are at the end of the article.)2 min read·May 5, 2018----
Alistair RocheA quick comparison of the size of various Doom codebasesid Software released the source code for the Doom engine two days before Christmas 1997. Technically they released Linux Doom 1.10, a…3 min read·Jul 20, 2017----
Alistair RocheWhat I found by watching a twenty-year-old Doom II deathmatch1 min read·Jul 4, 2017--1--1
Alistair RocheinHackerNoon.comCorporate prediction markets: a roundup of the major playersRobin Hanson recently issued a “call to adventure”:7 min read·Jun 22, 2017--1--1
Alistair RocheMy favourite visuals in Hackers (1995)I was not expecting to enjoy this movie so much. I typically read the label “cult classic” as “terrible except as fuel for in-jokes”…9 min read·Jun 16, 2017--4--4
Alistair RocheinHackerNoon.comDon’t use a blockchain unless you need toAn easy way to spot a startup that won’t provide return on investment is to look for the words “blockchain” or “decentralized” on their…7 min read·Jun 11, 2017--33--33