Paraprosdokians are funny and unexpected. Creativity is the hidden ingredient in the element of surprise. They are delightful to collect as part of the trove of any idea collector, which can be used as inspirational cues and shift paradigm steroids for creative work. In some cases, they contain wisdom and…

Mind The Perils — What Happened To The Little Riding Hood? The Little Riding Hood does face certain risks when her mother sends her through the woods to visit her grandmother, and why is an old lady living alone in the deep woods? The big bad wolf indeed has frightening Endurance. It is a carnivore. Such is encoded in its nature…

Coding The Scores Of The Tune Of Mathematics — There are many beautiful equations we can compose from the scribbly and seemingly obscure scripts of Latex. \begin{align*} \text{Gou-Gu theorem, 勾股定理 (Pythagorean Theorem):} \quad & a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \\ \text{Pythagorean, 570 BC} \\ \\ \text{Logarithms:}…

Decide … — Coding Towards The Answer, Part 12 Seek And Ye Shalt Find…mikail-eliyah.medium.com Where the decision is to maximize gain and minimize loss, we can calculate the expectation and decide based on the minimal or maximal.

无影的离人 — The Story Of K I am not unfamiliar with sleeping on the streets. The first time when I was thrown out of the house was when I was 6. I fled from my father’s beating. I waited for his shell-shock to abate before I returned with my mother’s signal that the storm was over…

Seek And Ye Shalt Find… — Coding Towards The Answer, Part 11 Traversing The Tree …mikail-eliyah.medium.com We have in Traversing The Tree, that we could conduct tree search with Depth-First Search (DFS) and Breadth-First Search (BFS). Here we demonstrate other means. Binary Search def binary_search_recursive(arr, target, low, high): if low > high: return -1 mid…

You Will Never Return The Same Again … If You Ever Do … — I hesitated to tell this story for years, and only shared with a few friends to which I don’t understand why they think it is funny. I do see the fear on their faces as I narrated the experience, but they always think absurd misadventures happen to me because I…

All-In-1-Glance To Essential Diagrams — You really just require 6 diagrams. They are 1. User Case 2. Timing, Swimlane (Sequence) 3. Flow Chart 4. State Machine 5. Block-Component Flow 6. Entity-Relationship story -> picture -> definitions -> specifications -> design User Case @startuml left to right direction actor User as u0 note left of u0 : share location, query available…

Securing calls and interfaces — Real-world applications use multiple APIs with user permissions and (possibly conflicting) security and privacy goals. When tools and service facilities are taken out of context, it fumbles, fails, and breaks (slip, careen and wreck). It behooves to conduct regularly perform security testing, including penetration testing and code reviews, to identify…