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What's the next phase? What else does he have to learn?

mahmud 17y ago
Embedded systems. Distributed computing. Real-time systems programming. Software reverse engineering. Compiler construction. Digital signal processing. Machine learning. Natural language processing. Operations research. Numeric computing. Give each a decade and you will be in hacking bliss for the rest of your life.
- eru 17y ago
  Yes. Eg. operations research can be quite rewarding from a math point of view. Esp. combinatorial optimization (as a subfield) has a lof of interesting algorithms and concepts.
- kragen 17y ago
  I can't claim to be an expert in any of these, but I have dabbled in many: Embedded systems: http://canonical.org/~kragen/light_sensing/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/light_sensing/ Software reverse engineering: http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html Compiler construction: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/ http://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap http://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth Machine learning: http://angstro.com/ http://angstro.com/ (this isn't solely my project; I'm only doing a minority of the work) Numerical algorithms, digital signal processing: a bit at ERIM I can't say I've done anything very interesting with distributed computing, real-time systems programming, natural language processing, or operations research.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    I have dabbled in all, mastered probably none. An older friend of mine made millions from an RTOS he wrote in the 80s. He also wrote his own tcp/ip stack, cross assemblers, built his own ICE debuggers and other stuff. However, he knows very little else :-P He is almost always surprised by "what computers can do". Specializing did something strange to this man; he does the impossible and remains ignorant of the trivial. He only programs in C and Assembly languages but was surprised to discover there were syntax-highliting editors for assembly. He knows most algorithms that we toss around in conversation in chip form; to him MPEG, AVI, MD5, and SHA1 are all silicon things, never "written". I taught him what a "packer" was for executable binaries.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    OT: kragen, Opera de-hearts your website: says you destribute malice :-( http://i27.tinypic.com/2s6svap.png http://i27.tinypic.com/2s6svap.png wtf?
    - kragen 17y ago
      I heard about that a few weeks ago. I think I need to talk to Opera about it. Just in case, I grepped for the obvious things, without any success.
      - kragen 17y ago
        Uh, I mean I searched to see if there were any obvious browser exploits being propagated from the pages. I can't rule out the possibility of something subtle but I didn't notice anything.

Embedded systems. Distributed computing. Real-time systems programming. Software reverse engineering. Compiler construction. Digital signal processing. Machine learning. Natural language processing. Operations research. Numeric computing. Give each a decade and you will be in hacking bliss for the rest of your life.

eru 17y ago
Yes. Eg. operations research can be quite rewarding from a math point of view. Esp. combinatorial optimization (as a subfield) has a lof of interesting algorithms and concepts.
kragen 17y ago
I can't claim to be an expert in any of these, but I have dabbled in many: Embedded systems: http://canonical.org/~kragen/light_sensing/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/light_sensing/ Software reverse engineering: http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo/klappquadrat.html Compiler construction: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/ http://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap http://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth Machine learning: http://angstro.com/ http://angstro.com/ (this isn't solely my project; I'm only doing a minority of the work) Numerical algorithms, digital signal processing: a bit at ERIM I can't say I've done anything very interesting with distributed computing, real-time systems programming, natural language processing, or operations research.
- mahmud 17y ago
  I have dabbled in all, mastered probably none. An older friend of mine made millions from an RTOS he wrote in the 80s. He also wrote his own tcp/ip stack, cross assemblers, built his own ICE debuggers and other stuff. However, he knows very little else :-P He is almost always surprised by "what computers can do". Specializing did something strange to this man; he does the impossible and remains ignorant of the trivial. He only programs in C and Assembly languages but was surprised to discover there were syntax-highliting editors for assembly. He knows most algorithms that we toss around in conversation in chip form; to him MPEG, AVI, MD5, and SHA1 are all silicon things, never "written". I taught him what a "packer" was for executable binaries.
- mahmud 17y ago
  OT: kragen, Opera de-hearts your website: says you destribute malice :-( http://i27.tinypic.com/2s6svap.png http://i27.tinypic.com/2s6svap.png wtf?
  - kragen 17y ago
    I heard about that a few weeks ago. I think I need to talk to Opera about it. Just in case, I grepped for the obvious things, without any success.
    - kragen 17y ago
      Uh, I mean I searched to see if there were any obvious browser exploits being propagated from the pages. I can't rule out the possibility of something subtle but I didn't notice anything.