Daniel Tillett

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Pick the Alphabet to Suit the Reader: Damm64 and Damm93 Joins Damm32

damm64 (base64url) and damm93 (visible ASCII without the backslash) join damm32 as Damm check digit libraries in C, PHP and JavaScript. Which to use depends on who has to read the code.


  1. Startups

    How to complete the W-8BEN-E Form for Australian Companies

    The IRS seems to be over just making the life of Americans a misery and they have decided the whole world should experience their special attention. If you…


  2. business

    How to Run an Efficient Meeting

    The four simple rules to run an efficient meeting. The Problem is communicated in advance and understood by all parties The Exit Condition is clearly stated Is Time Limited…


  3. COVID-19

    There are many SARS-CoV-2 strains with gene deletions

    In my first post on a possible solution to COVID-19 I hypothesised that there would be gene deletion mutants to be found in the SARS-CoV-2 viral strains out…


  4. Science

    It is unethical to not search for an attenuated SARS-CoV-2 strain

    One aspect of the Search for an Attenuated Natural strain via Epidemiology (SANE) that I have not discussed in depth is the use of an attenuated SARS-CoV-2 strain…


  5. Science

    SANE – Search for an Attenuated Natural strain via Epidemiology

    I was invited this week by the Foresight Institute to give a talk on how we could search for an attenuated natural strain of SARS-CoV-2 using genomics and…


  6. Science

    How would a search for a natural attenuated SARS-CoV-2 strain work in practice?

    My previous post on a possible solution to COVID-19 has attracted quite a bit of interest on Twitter and Hacker News, but I have noticed that many people…


  7. Science

    A (possible) solution to COVID-19

    Notice. Since this seems to be such a common question I think I should describe my background. I have a PhD in molecular microbiology and I was once…


  8. Food

    Which Came First – The Chicken or the Egg?

    One of the great things about having children is it reacquaints you with things you have not thought about for a long time. The old Chicken or the…

  9. The Last Word on Free Will

    People have been arguing if free will exists or not for millennia with little progress. You have the Incompatibilists on one side arguing that free will and a deterministic…

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