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We Built a Solution to Gen Z's Loneliness Crisis at a Hackathon

We Built a Solution to Gen Z's Loneliness Crisis at a Hackathon

Sam Packer —

Two-thirds of college students feel lonely. At Duke's AI Hackathon, we built Sync AI to change that.

Hackathon Edtech Explainable AI Enterprise
Building Risk-Based Authentication for Shibboleth in Two Weeks

Building Risk-Based Authentication for Shibboleth in Two Weeks

Sam Packer —

You log into Canvas, your email, and your university portal every day without thinking twice. But the security protecting those logins? It's nowhere near as sophisticated as it should be. So my team and I decided to modernize it.

Cybersecurity IAM Authentication Machine Learning Neural Networks
Tracing the Currents: From Flows to Data Centers

Tracing the Currents: From Flows to Data Centers

Sam Packer, Michael Saju —

A data storytelling project exploring whether America's growing network of data centers is truly straining the power grid, or if the story in the numbers points to something more complex.

Data Analysis Data Storytelling
How I Load Balanced My Portfolio, Applications, and Databases

How I Load Balanced My Portfolio, Applications, and Databases

Sam Packer —

I self-host my applications. The biggest downside? Downtime during updates and reboots. Here's how I load balanced my entire stack to keep things running, even when a server goes down.

Load Balancing Debian System Administration
Improving Authentication in My Projects

Improving Authentication in My Projects

Sam Packer —

I rebuilt authentication in two of my applications and learned more about security than I expected along the way.

Authentication
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