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My First Cybersecurity Course is Live on Cybrary

I remember that a few years ago I was looking for a platform where I could learn cybersecurity and penetration testing. There wasn’t much going on in the web space back then. But there was this site, Cybrary, that recently (at that point in time) came up. They had a few courses and you would …

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Teaching Cybersecurity on Youtube

I turned my full professional attention to cybersecurity… As much as I love machine learning and everything related to computer science and programming, to genomics and nutrition science, I come to reason that the only way to advance and develop field expertise is through extremely narrowed focus. That’s why I chose cybersecurity. Some of the

A Dietary Retrospective of 2018

By the mid of December 2017, I decided to buy a glucose-ketone blood testing device. For a lot of months preceding that, I was following a non-ketogenic diet that was high in plants and low in animal foods. I wasn’t feeling that good and I wanted to get back into ketosis, as it’s been serving

My Machine Learning Android App – Getting into Mobile Development

Those of you very close to me know that my first three or four attempts at learning to code were epic failures. I tried learning Java, with the sole purpose of getting into mobile app development. This was circa 2009. And over the course of a couple of years, until late 2014, early 2015 I

NYC Vlogs – Carnivore Diet, Visiting Google HQ, Getting a DEXA Scan, and More

I hate that I didn’t do this everytime I stayed in the big apple. Ah well… So, it was just a few days before my trip to NYC this October that I decided to vlog as much as I can. If nothing else, this would serve as a guide for future adventures. Looking back, I

Into Deep Ketosis in 30 Minutes – My First Experiment with the Ketone Ester [KetoneAid]

I was given a sample of the ketone ester KE4 (KetoneAid) and I wanted to see how it impacts my crossfit-like type of training. These first results are very promising and I’m looking forward to doing more experiments with this stuff, not only for sports performance, but also for cognitive performance. This is a two-part

A 48-hour Fasting Experiment – [August 2018]

I hate airplane food. This gives me the great opportunity to engage in prolonged fasting when flying cross-continents. A recent trip got me into a 48-hour fast, and I decided to video document it…

How Alcohol Impacts my Deep Sleep – N=1 Experiment [July 2018]

I recently bought a Fitbit Blaze, which has a continuous heart rate monitor. One of the great features of this fitness trackers is that it analyzes your sleep. And the immediate experiment that came to mind, while having some whisky, was to see how alcohol impacts my deep sleep. That’s what I talk about in

Briosa 0 Carb – Alternativa pentru Paine [Iulie 2018]

Postarea asta trebuia sa vina acu’ multa vreme, atunci cand am inceput sa fac briosele astea keto-proteice (ha! am inventat un nou cuvant). Chiar daca nu ma pot satura de reteta de paine ketogenica pe care am dezvoltat-o pe la inceputul anului asta, e bine sa alternez. Pentru mine dieta keto e despre mancaruri simple

Omleta, Burgeri de Vita si Branza Feta – [Iunie 2018]

Asta e un exemplu de masa care e in concordanta cu dietele: zero-carb, carnivora, ketogenica. Continutul de carbohidrati e infim. As zice ca e o afinitate mai mare intre masa asta si dieta zero-carb pentru ca dieta carnivora (cea 100%) implica doar consumul de carne si organe de animale, iar pentru dieta ketogenica raportul dintre