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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> On 08/05/2014 21:13, James wrote: |
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> > So, what a torrent_style tool that uses a distributed hashes/keys |
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> > to check code integrity; is possible? |
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> In one word: git |
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> > Surely the code histogram idea is possible? |
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> Again, git. |
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Wow, this is freaky. I've never read up on git's diff-stat. |
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There are numerous advanced mathematical methodologies that |
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can be applied to histograms, some of which run blazingly |
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fast on GPU and customer gate arrays. I wonder where I can |
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read up on "diffstat" and see what mathematics they are applied |
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or are contemplating to use? Google reveals nothing yet |
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and I'm too lazy (right now) to read the code. |
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"Copyright © 1996-2013,2014 by Thomas E. Dickey |
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diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the |
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insertions, deletions, and modifications per-file. It is useful for |
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reviewing large, complex patch files. " |
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this is really cool, I shoot one from the hip and it is a well |
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established tool? scary, but, math is math..... |
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Do you know (of) this guy? is he easy to approach or territorial? |
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I never heard of this guy..... |
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> An aspect of the git design spec is to try deal with the kind of things |
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> you are pondering here. It seems a valid approach - if many people out |
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> there clone and make copies of the code then work on it, and if a bad |
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> hat injects some weirdness, there are enough eyes to hopefully catch it. |
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> Now that I think of it, it's an elegant solution: |
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> Avoid the problems of a single master store but not having one. |
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Beyond elegant. Some very cool mathematics can be applied to (histogram) |
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verious images and image manipultation as a sort of "out of band" security |
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scan..... There are also some very cool bit manipulations deep in |
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H.264 that are similarly applicable. In fact "motion detection" |
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is a first cousin to these transfroms (z, laplace, fft) which are often |
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embedded in hardware for system checks). DOD...... |
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Well, I'm off to go play basketball and the the Tampabay Devil rays |
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(hopefully) pound those cleveland indians......... |
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I'm jazzed. I usually lucky when hips shots do not richochet around and |
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hit me in the rear!............. |
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Since I'm not driving, I going to have a BIG FAT MARGARITA, and give you |
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a salute at the BB game.... You've made my week! |
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thx! |
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James |
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