Sherlock Holmes Final Letter: A Simple Dead Man's Switch in Rust

Sherlock Holmes fights Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls Got state secrets? Or maybe 50 BTC? Don’t trust your government or lawyers? And you want to make sure that if you die, your secrets are passed on? Don’t worry, I got you covered. In this post, I’ll introduce you to a simple no-bullshit dead man’s switch written in Rust. Dead Man’s Switch According to Wikipedia: A dead man’s switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control....

March 23, 2024 · 8 min · Jose Storopoli

Testing Bayesian Models with Nix and GitHub Actions

I have an open access and open source1 graduate-level course on Bayesian statistics. It is available in GitHub through the repo storopoli/Bayesian-Statistics. I’ve taught it many times and every time was such a joy. It is composed of: a set of 300+ slides2 covering the theoretical part Stan3 models Turing.jl4 models Now and then I receive emails from someone saying that the materials helped them to understand Bayesian statistics. These kind messages really make my day, and that’s why I strive to keep the content up-to-date and relevant....

December 4, 2023 · 13 min · Jose Storopoli