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Abstract

Polymorphic malware detection is challenging due to the continual mutations miscreants introduce to successive instances of a particular virus. Such changes are akin to mutations in biological sequences. Recently, high-throughput methods for gene sequence…

A Visual Studio 2013 demo project including all of the code in this article can be downloaded using the links in the resources section below.

I was recently tasked with trying to isolate whales within an image of ocean water using C#.  While building machine learning models, the question was raised: “Does ocean water add noise in a model to detect a specific whale while it is swimming in the ocean?”  This was the primary…

Abstract

This article provides a full demo application using both the C# and R programming languages interchangeably to rapidly identify and cluster similar images.   The demo application includes a directory with 687 screenshots of webpages.  Many of these images are very similar with different domain names but near identical content.  Some images are only slightly similar with the sites using the same general layouts but different colors and different images on certain…

A Brief History of Map Reduction

Map and Reduce functions can be traced all the way back to functional programming languages such as Haskell and its Polymorphic Map function known as fmap.  Even before fmap there was the Haskell …