Hi! If you haven't guessed from the website title, you are on the blog of John "Jeffrey" Westhoff.
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Connect 4 - The Power (or, here, lack thereof) Two Choices
Written May 27, 2021 - ProjectsA year or so ago, in my lab’s reading group we read the famous power of two choices in randomized load balancing paper, and it gave me an awful idea - what if we applied a similar idea to games? As a very quick explanation, for the task of load balancing requests - basically, you have a bunch of servers handling things for you like fetching emails, and you want to spread out the work evenly - a common approach is to just pick a random server and send the next request there.
Continue reading ↦My Post-Covid Camera Setup
Written May 19, 2021 - Blog
Ever since the world has ended and all of my meetings with people are online over video, I needed a web cam.
Continue reading ↦Using TiddlyWiki Behind Apache
Written May 18, 2021 - Projects
This is mostly a reference for future me, or anyone else who wants to use https://tiddlywiki.com/ behind a proxy with apache.
Continue reading ↦How That One Facebook Phishing Thing Worked
Written May 5, 2021 - Blog
A few days ago I got the same message from several friends on Facebook:
Continue reading ↦Getting Free Analysis from Games on Chess.com with Lichessify
Written Apr 27, 2021 - Projects
I have been playing like, a normal amount of chess lately. I’m not yet past the “don’t just move your queen to her death” phase yet, but I have noticeably gotten better since I rage-quit last year against my little brother.
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