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This week is the start of grad school. Since I'm also working full time I decided to take it easy and only registered for two classes. I know that is a small sample size, but I'm pretty disappointed to learn that both of the classes have a lot of group projects involved in them. And I remember from my time as an undergrad student that (almost) every professor was assigning group projects too. Ugh group projects suck! I had hoped that I would be done with group projets when I left undergrad behind. Collaborative learning: the go-to pedagogy for lazy professors when service learning isn't available for some reason.

First, a distinction

I draw a distinction between group projects and group work. To me, a group project is a larger deliverable where the intent is that students will work together over a longer period of time. Group work, on the other hand, is what I call it when you have students break into smaller groups within the class period to discuss something amongst themselves and possibly produce a sho

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anus = reader(open('bullshit_file.csv','rU'))
fieldnames = []

# Read the first row of the csv file and put all the values into a list. Duplicates will not be overwritten.
for headername in anus.next():
  if headername not in fieldnames:
    fieldnames.append(headername)
  else:
    fieldnames.append(headername + " Other")
    

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{
 "metadata": {
  "name": "",
  "signature": "sha256:be8501a2940fce195e5db05103c87f13e2dac07ac27e35cf5895ccad9045aace"
 },
 "nbformat": 3,
 "nbformat_minor": 0,
 "worksheets": [
  {
   "cells": [

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1. http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2010/11/12/get-started-with-malware-analysis
2. http://zeltser.com/malware-analysis-toolkit/
3. http://zeltser.com/vmware-malware-analysis/
4. http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2010/10/11/3-phases-malware-analysis-behavioral-code-memory-forensics/
5. BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/gu/gu.pdf
6. Mining the Network Behavior of Bots http://isg.rhul.ac.uk/sullivan/pubs/tr/2009-12.pdf
7. Behavioral Clustering of HTTP-Based Malware and Signature Generation Using Malicious Network Traces https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi10/tech/full_papers/perdisci.pdf
8. From Throw-Away Traffic to Bots: Detecting the Rise of DGA-Based Malware https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final127.pdf
9. Obfuscation of executable code to improve resistance to static disassembly http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~debray/Pub

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defmodule Mailgun do
  @doc """
  Sends a basic message to an address. Expects a mailgun domain environment
  variable (MAILGUN_DOMIAN) and a mailgun api key environment variable
  (MAILGUN_API_KEY).
  """
  @spec mail(String.t) :: String.t
  def mail(toAddress) do
    url = "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/#{System.get_env("MAILGUN_DOMAIN")}/messages"
    headers = ["User-Agent": "Elixir",

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globals [
  sample-car
]

turtles-own [
  speed
  speed-limit
  speed-min
  recently-stopped?
  deceleration

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turtles-own [ chip? chip-color ]
patches-own [ leaves ]

to setup
  clear-all
  set-default-shape turtles "bug"
  ask patches
    [ if random-float 100 < density
        [ set pcolor ((random colors) * 10) + 5 ] ]
  create-turtles number

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; create a variable for termites to know
; what color chip they carry
turtles-own [chip_color]

to setup
  clear-all
  set-default-shape turtles "bug"
  ;; randomly distribute wood chips
  ask patches
  ; a set of patches will change their color

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I have a genserver that is taking messages from a websocket and passing them to an event handler. The event handler receives a map from the genserver and takes action where appropriate. So for example, in response to a new user create event, the event handler would check if the user's email address comes from a suspicious domain, and if so, take some actions to reduce abuse.

So in event_handler.ex you can see that when a new message comes in for a user create event, I pass the message to UserHandler.handle_suspicious_domain. That function returns the same map which I pass to UserHandler.handle_suspicious_ip. But I'm not sure if that's idomatic since I'm not transforming the map, I'm just passing it from function to function.

Then you can see in user_handler.ex that I take the domain name through a set of transformations and then make a decision. Looking at line 25 you can see that I have a function that does nothing and only exists to prevent a crash. That seems wasteful and

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Multiplication with your fingers. http://lifehacker.com/5942037/quickly-multiply-single+digit-numbers-with-your-hands