13 Oct 2021
With Bash:
With Python and Bash:
With Python (Async):
Via github.com/cjamesni.
23 Feb 2020
How I Got There:
Proud to share the Cisco badge: CCNA Routing & Switching 200-125. Narrowly avoided #Certpocalypse 2020 and thankfully passed the composite exam yesterday morning. With thanks owed to David Bombal and Wendell Odom for their unimproveable training materials:
- David Bombal - Your CCNA Start. The Complete Networking Fundamentals course (Udemy)
- David Bombal - Cisco CCNA Packet Tracer Ultimate labs: CCNA 200-301 labs (Udemy)
- Wendell Odom - Cisco Official Cert Guide - CCNA 100-105 (Book 1)
- Wendell Odom - Cisco Official Cert Guide - CCNA Routing and Switching 200-105 (Book 2)
- Quest4.Org - The Art of Subnetting - The Art of Subnetting and other Network Addressing Tips & Tricks
Your Acclaim: Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching) was issued by Cisco to Christopher Evelyn James.
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11 Aug 2019
Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.
Book Authors: Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Published: 2016
Ideas discussed:
What should we do or leave undone in a day or a lifetime?
Alogrithms: Simply put… a finite set of steps.
The Secretary Problem
Optimal Stopping Theory: “37%.”
Explore/exploit: New vs. best so far. Gittin’s index. The multi-armed bandit problem: win-stay, lose-shift. Regret minimisation frameworks. Upper confidence bound alogrithms. Priors. A/B testing Obama.
Scheduling Theory
Sort Theory: The ‘search’ misnomer. Bubble, Insertion, Merge, Bucket, Rough, Tree. Linear vs. quadratic time. Comparison counting. Radix.
Stackoverflow - How to pair socks from a pile efficiently?
Caching Theory: The memory hierarchy. Bélády’s algorithm. Cache eviction. Page faults/Cache misses. LRU. FIFO. The Forgetting Curve…
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07 May 2018
In and around Chi-town.
Jet lag aside, I’m happy to report ten days both sunny and enjoyable on a visit to Chicago from late April to early May of this year. A great experience which took me from the beautiful Chicago side shore of Lake Michigan, to many places throughout The Loop and Magnificent Mile in the city, and out around the suburbs along Route 59 …
Some City Sights.
Just a few of the stops along the way:
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