Lane Kolbly: Statistical Network Security Analyst Extraordinaire

Published Sep 16, 2013 by Pillow Computing Consortium at /blog/2013-09-15-lane-kolbly-statistical-network-security-analyst-extraordinaire/

Because that’s totally a thing, and I didn’t totally make it up.

Here’s my proof: http://pillow.rscheme.org/serverstring

That’s a program which uses known statistics about the world of malicious websites to look at new websites and give them a “rating”. There’s a 2% false negative rate, which is pretty good.

There’s also a 30% false positive rate, which is not so good. College started so I haven’t been able to get that down. Stay tuned.

Along the lines of statistical analysis, I heard about (and then wrote) a psychology experiment involving numbers. You guys should complete it: http://pillow.rscheme.org/number-psych

I’ll tell you the experiment and results later, after you’ve done the experiment.

Also, check out my new and improved homepage:

Much better than the old design, don’t you think?

Lane Kolbly

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