Chris Hiszpanski

Amortization Computer
How increasing loan payments a little reduces loan length a lot.

$229 on Gasoline in 2021
Silver linings of a pandemic.

Aquacam
Virtual aquarium. Demo of cross-browser H.265/VP9 support.

liburtc
Small-footprint WebRTC native C library for embedded systems.

Are We Secure?
What does it mean for a system to be 'secure'? Is a secure system achievable? 12 random characters make a secure password in most cases.

Emergency Room Load
Was there really a spike in hospitalizations around Thanksgiving due to COVID-19? And when is the best time to go to the ER?

Value of Bitcoin
Why the price of Bitcoin may converge to $1M per coin (in today's dollars).

Future of Warfare
How AI supremacy will become the differentiating factor between superpowers.

Ephemeral Port Prediction
When communicating via a socket, how does Linux select the source port? Is it truly random? Spoiler — its not.

Packed-to-Planar Conversion via ARM NEON Intrinsics
What is packed-to-planar pixel conversion? Why is it needed?

Cytosight: Deep Serverless Microscopy
Detecting cancerous cells via a convolutional neural network. Served via AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Solvent Finder
Interactive solvent finder for chemical engineers. Serverless web app using jQuery and Datatables.js.

ValentineGL
Beating heart screensaver for MacOS using OpenGL and marching-cubes algorithm.

Hashpipe
SHA-256 hashing engine implemented as a systolic pipeline in VHDL for mining Bitcoin.

Sorad
FPGA-based software radio for real-time signal processing. Started out as my master's project in 2007. Designed the schematic, pcb, wrote firmware, and developed basic software. Continued afterwards, developing MacOS applications for the peripheral.

Sarc
Simple rule-based AI for the card game Spades.