A recent post on HN got me thinking (and reading) about elevator scheduling algorithms. As it turns out, this is an active area of extensive research. Manufacturers tend to use slightly different algorithms and treat them as trade secrets. But in practice, their algorithms are similar, because the theoretical optimization criteria are roughly the same: provide [...]
Read more →Android was rooted quite a while ago by a hacker who posts at c-skills.blogspot.com. Like many others, I tried out the exploit he installed to see if I could make my phone more interesting (this is something it’s now okay to admit to). This got me wondering about whether the exploit for Android is generalizable—is there [...]
Read more →I authored some work recently in which we identify an instance of potential market manipulation. Here’s the page on NECSI’s website. Here are reddit posts about it in economics, politics, math, finance, and occupywallstreet. Here’s an HN post about it. It was covered by BoingBoing, PhysOrg, ScienceNews, Technology Review, ZeroHedge, Naked Capitalism, and others.
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