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Inside these pages you will find a collection of my personal ramblings (including security disclosures, my thoughts on various topics, and anything else that I feel like writing about). All of the opinions stated here are solely my own, and are released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
Author: Aleksa Sarai
- Photometry of Contaminated Kepler Pixels Aleksa Sarai, 03 November 2015.
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As part of the Talented Student Program, I undertook my first research project in the School of Physics (and hopefully the first of many). Specifically, this research involved designing a novel technique for making use of halo contamination from bright stars in Kepler K2 fields to do high-precision photometry. I'm planning on doing further research on this topic during the summer, and hopefully will get a paper published as a result.
- Tuple Unpacking Oddness Aleksa Sarai, 01 September 2015.
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While working on tutoring the NCSS Challenge, I found a very interesting oddity of Python's tuple unpacking execution order. While it turns out this is very well documented, it isn't very intuitive (as with most edge cases in languages).
- Getting into Linux Kernel Development Aleksa Sarai, 15 July 2015.
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I've been interested in kernel development for a long time, and recently got some patches merged into the Linux kernel. Here are my experiences about the process of kernel development and what newbies can do to get started.
- Making a Simple Scheduler for an Arduino Aleksa Sarai, 12 January 2015.
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The latest cool thing I worked on for NCSS in order to play "The Final Countdown" on a single Arduino Uno with proper chords. Also because I really wanted to write a scheduler, and this was a good excuse.