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  • Generalised linear models for medical biostatistics

    06 November 2021 (updated 19 November 2021) | mathematics statistics medicine | Comment

    Warning! I am not a statistician; indeed, I have no real statistics background whatsoever! This entire article could be complete nonsense – please confer with a responsible adult (so not me)!

    Recently, I've been doing some statistical analysis using log-binomial generalised linear models (GLMs). Resources… »

  • Porting NU-Prolog (c. 1995) from BSD Unix to modern Linux

    07 September 2021 | programming | Comment

    NU-Prolog is a Prolog variant designed by the members of the Machine Intelligence Project at the University of Melbourne, released circa 1986, with a version 1.6.9 released circa 1995.

    Recently, I sought to port some software written in NU-Prolog (written by one of its creators, … »

  • Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 3

    29 August 2021 (updated 31 August 2021) | copyright drm reverse engineering obfuscation security | Comment

    In part 2, we reverse engineered the decrypted format of the licence file data for this particular software. In this part, we investigate that how exactly that licence file is encrypted.

    Into the fray

    In part 2, we identified that the decrypted licence file… »

  • Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 2

    29 August 2021 (updated 31 August 2021) | copyright drm reverse engineering obfuscation security | Comment

    In part 1, we reverse engineered the registration code licensing mechanism of this particular software. However, that mechanism was not the mechanism actually in use in 2004; rather, a different mechanism was used based on licence files named license.bin. In this part, we… »

  • Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware – Part 1

    29 August 2021 (updated 31 August 2021) | copyright drm reverse engineering obfuscation security | Comment

    Background

    This series concerns a software licensing system used in a proprietary software application from circa 2004. The software was available in an unregistered trial mode with limited functionality. A free licence could be obtained by registering online with the software vendor. The software became… »

  • Parcels? Subparcels? Not just for STV hand counts! – OpenTally dev log

    21 August 2021 | single transferable vote opentally | Comment

    Single transferable vote rules designed for hand-counting often contain references to ‘parcels’ (or ‘bundles’ or ‘batches’), ‘further parcels’ and sometimes even ‘subparcels’.

    For example, consider the 4th stage of the ERS97 model election. 107 of Glazier's and Wright's ballot papers are aggregated according to… »

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