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Computing WHO growth percentiles on-device

Every baby tracker shows growth percentiles. "Your daughter is in the 72nd percentile for weight." It looks like a lookup — find the row for her age, compare, print a number. It isn't.

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Background removal without a green screen is an underdetermined problem. Here's what the maths is doing.

Every pixel in a photograph of a person against a wall is a blend of two things. The compositing equation is the whole problem in one line: C = αF + (1 - α)B C is the pixel you can see.

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INTERFACE SEGREGATION PRINCIPLE

No class should be dependent on methods it doesn't need. An example would be a "Machine" interface that forces the print() , scan() , and fax() methods. Not every machine has these 3 methods.

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The antivirus said 'no malware detected'. It was sitting right there on the disk.

A real incident, and a lesson about green lights. Every command output, version number and CVE ID below is from the actual investigation. Nothing was invented for the narrative.

• Malware hidden on Synology NAS despite no threats detected by antivirus scan
• Packers and shell scripts used to evade signature-based malware detection
• Unpatched vulnerability and exposed remote access feature allowed remote code execution

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Axis Communications Joins Palo Alto Networks Program as Founding Partner in New Initiative to Help Organizations Mitigate Software Vulnerabilities

CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Axis Communications today announced it has joined a strategic initiative, the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, created by Palo Alto Networks to protect critical infrastructure…

2h ago ·financialpost.com