What I found interesting this time

by: Artur Dziedziczak

August 11, 2024

“COVID-19 DETECTION BASED ON BLOOD TEST PARAMETERS USING VARIOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS,” n.d. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02348

Small and interesting research about detecting COVID based on blood samples and X-ray of lungs.
I’m not very knowledgeable about medical part of it, but I loved how in the end researchers used Grad-CAM to show why AI detected some lungs scans as ones with COVID. Really, you can see histogram on X-ray scan and it’s just wonderful application of Grad-CAM.
#ai #lungs #covid #research  

“Store Code Discussions in Git Using Git Notes,” n.d. https://wouterj.nl/2024/08/git-notes

Interesting blog post about hot to use git notes. I was not aware that this is how you can store the comments section of git issue trackers. The whole idea seems pretty interesting, especially that you can search thought it. #git

“Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy,” n.d. https://icode4.coffee/?p=954

Amazing blog post about Hacking PS2 and XBOX360 via THPS1,2,3,4,American Wasteland and Underground.
The author managed to exploit RCE through park name exploit.
#hacking

“Full Text Search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. Alternatives,” n.d. https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/elasticsearch_vs_postgres

Shallow comparison of Postgres and Elasticsearch full-text search capabilities.
No metrics were shown but some key takeaways. First of all, apparently Postgres is not that fast and does not have features as elastic search. I would love to check plugins for the database, as probably there are some. Second of all, Elasticsearch does not have ACID transactions so it cannot act as primary data store.  
#postgres #elastic