In today’s digital landscape, web security threats have become increasingly sophisticated and pervasive. As our reliance on the internet continues to grow, it becomes crucial for organizations to implement robust security measures to protect their digital assets and users’ sensitive information. One such security measure that has gained significant attention…

Improve the output for better readability — Pytest allows a lot of customization for the look-and-feel. Output formats for the progress, the results, the diffs in error cases. While you can do it all yourself, there are tons of plugins. Test setup I used the pypdf test suite in most screenshots. …

The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen significant advancements over the years, with language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibiting remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating human language. …

AI advancements are impressive, but those tasks are far out of our reach. — № 1: Software Development

A ChatGPT experiment with a writing prompt — Writing prompts are sentences that give you ideas for interesting stories. I took the following prompt to generate a story written with ChatGPT (GPT-4): You stood there, looking at your friend, faceplaming “Let me get this straight, you’re dating a Goddess, an actual ‘divine powers, older than civilization’ Goddess and…

GPT-4 can produce stories. Let’s examine the quality. — We all want some forms of light entertainment once in a while. It might be to stop us from thinking about work at the end of the day. It might be to distract from hardships in our lives. It might just be to relax. Light reading could be love stories…

It saved me hundreds of hours as a data scientist — Data cleaning and preprocessing is a necessary and time-consuming task in data science. I typically do this in iterations with a subset of the original dataset. Once I think I have found all the issues, I run the cleaning code on the complete dataset. There are several different ways to…

A secure channel over an insecure network can be established via asymmetric cryptography. But we also need to make sure that we are actually talking with the correct person (or rather server). It is of no help if we have a secure channel to an attacker. …

Or: How to structure your tests — Unit tests typically consist of three meaningful phases: Arrange: Set up the preconditions for the tests. That could be creating data/objects or configuring a state. Act: Perform the action that should get tested. Typically this means calling the function/method you want to test Assert: Verify the correctness of the outcome…