God's RNG
09 September 2020 ·A short story illustrating principles of random number generation.
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The odds of a correct first guess in Clue
09 September 2020 ·If you play the board game Clue often enough, you will encounter the situation where the first guess made in the game turns out to solve the mystery. This feels like it should be evidence of cheating, but in fact can be shown to be surprisingly common.
Validating DNSSEC locally, the 2020 way
22 March 2020 ·It's more difficult than I expected to validate DNSSEC information locally in your terminal. I figured out how to do it and documented my findings here. Also, it turns out that most software relies on the resolver to do validation for them and will accept invalid data if it's sent to them by the recursive resolver.
Some thoughts on evangelicalism
26 September 2019 ·A response to an article by Adam Kotsko, in which I highlight some points of difference between his experience growing up in an evangelical home and mine.
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