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Anonymous identification for groups

Level of difficultyHard
Reading time13 min
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The identification protocol based on the pairing function, resistant to impersonation and compatible with the instant digital signature (IDS) mode, was studied in this article. This protocol uses prover's and verifier's public keys. As a result, there is no anonymity, since certificates including personal data of their owners are issued for the mentioned keys. This article contains a description and analysis of new anonymous identification protocols for groups.

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UX Designer Job Interview: 10 questions to answer, 5 questions to ask

Level of difficultyEasy
Reading time6 min
Views628

No matter how many degrees you have or how high your experience level is, your recruiters need to evaluate your knowledge of UX design as a whole. But keep in mind that a job interview is not an exam, so here you are expected not to recite the textbook definitions learned by heart, but rather share your personal understanding of UX and your role as a designer in general. Consider talking about how you define UX, what creates value in the design, what are the necessary parts of a UX design process, what are the current trends in UX. You might also be asked to explain the difference between UI and UX to see how you understand the role of each in the development process.

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React — Higher Order Components (HOC)

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time5 min
Views2.2K

In the ever-evolving realm of web development, mastering advanced concepts is essential for creating robust and flexible applications. In this article, we'll delve into one of these foundational React concepts: Higher-Order Components, commonly known as HOCs. 

Whether you're a seasoned developer seeking advanced techniques or a curious beginner eager to learn, we'll walk through the creation and application of HOCs step by step. Get ready to enrich your development toolkit with this powerful approach while discovering how to enhance the readability, reusability, and maintainability of your code.

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High-performance network library using C++20 coroutines

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time17 min
Views16K

Asynchronous programming is commonly employed for efficient implementation of network interactions in C++. The essence of this approach lies in the fact that the results of socket read/write functions are not immediately available but become accessible after some time. This approach allows for loading the processor with useful work during the wait for data. Various implementations of this approach exist, such as callbacks, actors, future/promise, coroutines. In C++, these implementations are available as libraries from third-party developers or can be implemented independently.

Coroutines are the most challenging to implement as they require writing platform-dependent code. However, the recent version of the C++ 20 language standard introduces support for coroutines at the compiler and standard library levels. Coroutines are functions that can suspend their execution, preserving their state, and later return to that state to resume the function's work. The compiler automatically creates a checkpoint with the coroutine's state.

For a comprehensive understanding of C++ 20 coroutines, refer to this article. Below, we examine a code example using coroutines and describe important points applied during implementation.

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Total votes 6: ↑4 and ↓2+2
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How sqlalchemy uses greenlet to call an async Python function from a normal function

Reading time5 min
Views1.8K

The Python language has two kind of functions — normal functions that you would use in most cases, and async functions. The latter functions are used when performing network IO in an asynchronous manner. The problem with this division is that async functions can only be called from other async functions. Normal functions, on the other hand, can be called from any functions — however, if you call a normal function that does a blocking operation from an async function, it will block the whole event loop and all your coroutines. These limitations usually mean that when writing an using Python`s asyncio, you can`t use any of the IO libraries that you use when writing a synchronous application, and vice versa, unless a library supports usage both in sync and async applications.

Now, the question is, in case you are developing a large and complex library, that, say, allows users to interact with relational databases, abstracting away (some of) the differences between the SQL syntax and other aspects of these databases, and abstracting away the differences between the drivers for that database, how do you support both sync and async usage of your library without duplicating the code of your library? The way sqlalchemy is organized is that regardless of what database and driver for it you are using, you will be calling functions and methods related to Engine, Connection, etc classes, which will do some general work independent of database, then apply the logic specific to your database and finally, call the functions of your database driver to actually communicate with the database. If you are using Python`s asyncio, the database driver will expose async functions and methods, but the rest of the library that is driver‑independent would ideally remain the same. However, the issue is that that you can`t call the async functions of the driver from the normal functions of the core of the library.

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React Custom Hook: useTimeout

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time2 min
Views1.7K

One of the significant advantages of this custom hook is that it ensures the callback function remains up to date even if it changes during component re-renders. By using a useRef to store the callback reference, the hook guarantees that the latest version of the function is always called.

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Dealing with sanctions and the other difficult question

Reading time3 min
Views941

In our last article we covered the anatomy of a presale meeting gone wrong. In that article we posed some questions for everyone to think about. What exactly does an American company wanting to hire a Russian custom software development company, feel about this Russian company? What are they afraid of? What are their concerns?

In the end we came up with five concerns.

1. Is the company a fly by night company, is the company a one-day company?

2. Will they be professional in supporting or developing the software that they've sold to us?

3. Will they have proper data security?

And now the two new ones that are because of the mess the world is in now...

4. Will they be able to complete the project on time? This includes proper internet access an infrastructure to support IT.

5. Where is your team located? Are you still located in Russia?

Now we're going to look at the last 2, number four and five.
However let's look at number 5 first.

Many IT companies today if they want to work with the United States or even Europe they must not have their developers located inside of Russia. Matter of fact it goes so far that if a developer is located in Russia and they're using a VPN and somehow the VPN is breached the credentials are canceled for that developer to work on the project.

It's for this reason that Russian IT companies are opening offices around the world. Let's look at Armenia as an example.

Wait a minute I have to go back for a second...... We must discuss how countries look to America Canada and Western Europe. I basically give them a score based on questions that are brought up in the mind of the American company or European company.

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Total votes 6: ↑4 and ↓2+2
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React Custom Hook: useStorage

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time3 min
Views2.1K

One of the key advantages of this custom hook is its simplicity. You can use it to store any type of data, such as strings, numbers, or even complex objects, with just a few lines of code. Additionally, useStorage handles the serialization and deserialization of data for you, so you don't have to worry about converting values to and from JSON.

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Total votes 3: ↑2 and ↓1+1
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2. Information Theory + ML. Mutual Information

Reading time11 min
Views751

In Part 1, we became familiar with the concept of entropy.

In this part, we will delve into the concept of Mutual Information, which opens doors to error-resistant coding, compression algorithms, and offers a fresh perspective on regression and Machine Learning tasks.

It is an essential component that will pave the way, in the next section, for tackling Machine Learning problems as tasks of extracting mutual information between features and the predicted variable.

Here, there will be three interesting and crucial visualizations.

The first one will visualize entropy for two random variables and their mutual information.
The second one will shed light on the very concept of dependency between two random variables, emphasizing that zero correlation does not imply independence.
The third one will demonstrate that the bandwidth of an information channel has a straightforward geometric interpretation through the convexity measure of the entropy function.

In the meantime, we will prove a simplified version of the Shannon-Hartley theorem regarding the maximum bandwidth of a noisy channel. Let's dive in!

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React Custom Hook: useStateWithValidation

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time2 min
Views1.4K

One of the key advantages of this custom hook is its flexibility. You can pass any validation function that suits your specific requirements. Whether it's checking the length of a string, ensuring a numeric value falls within a certain range, or performing more complex validations, useStateWithValidation has got you covered.

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React Custom Hook: useStateWithHistory

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time3 min
Views1.8K

In this article series, we embark on a journey through the realm of custom React hooks, discovering their immense potential for elevating your development projects. Our focus today is on the "useStateWithHistory" hook, one of the many carefully crafted hooks available in the collection of React custom hooks.

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React + Three.js. Creating your own 3D shooter. Part 1

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time30 min
Views5.8K

Hello, dear users of the IT world!

In the era of active development of web technologies and interactive applications, 3D-graphics is becoming more and more relevant and in demand. But how to create a 3D application without losing the advantages of web development? In this article, we will look at how to combine the power of Three.js with the flexibility of React to create your own game right in the browser.

This article will introduce you to the React Three Fiber library and teach you how to create interactive 3D games.

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Total votes 4: ↑3 and ↓1+2
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React Custom Hook: useScript

Level of difficultyMedium
Reading time2 min
Views2.5K

useScript can be used in various scenarios. For instance, you can load external libraries like jQuery, enabling you to harness its powerful functionalities without adding bulk to your bundle. Additionally, you can load analytics scripts, social media widgets, or any other script necessary for your application's dynamic behavior.

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Total votes 4: ↑3 and ↓1+2
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1. Information theory + ML. Entropy

Reading time10 min
Views991

I've long wanted to create educational materials on the topic of Information Theory + Machine Learning. I found some old drafts and decided to polish them up here, on Habr.

Information Theory and Machine Learning seem to me like an interesting pair of fields, the deep connection between which is often unknown to ML engineers, and whose synergy has not yet been fully revealed.

Let's start with basic concepts like Entropy, Information in a message, Mutual Information, and channel capacity. Next, there will be materials on the similarity between tasks of maximizing Mutual Information and minimizing Loss in regression problems. Then there will be a section on Information Geometry: Fisher metric, geodesics, gradient methods, and their connection to Gaussian processes (moving along the gradient using SGD is moving along the geodesic with noise).

It's also necessary to touch upon AIC, Information Bottleneck, and discuss how information flows in neural networks – Mutual Information between layers (Information Theory of Deep Learning, Naftali Tishby), and much more. It's not certain that I'll be able to cover everything listed, but I'll try to get started.

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