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A series on IP addresses in R – 1/n
As is usual, data in the security field is “domain specific”. Among other things, certain numbers are to be treated like factors and not ordinals (e.g. TCP Port Numbers…). IP addresses are an example of data that “looks” somewhat numeric, and actually can be transformed into numerics, but are not exactly such. An IP…
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Explaining the concepts of “Kaizen R” through an example
This time I’ll try to explain why the “Kaizen-R blog” even exists, through an example. Improving through deliberate practice This was THE idea, before the idea of the blog. This blog is only a consequence, really. So this time, I focused on the deliberate practice, and I will only summarise it here, then reference you…
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Just a reminder: Libraries/Packages can contain bad stuff
This is a very short entry for now, but I thought I couldn’t skip it. Bad Libraries This year in a conference, someone demoed how you could really do some harm if you were able to create libraries and get people to use those in Python. Essentially, “all there is to it” (I’m being simplistic…