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What I'm working on right now is a project to decode a certain technical book publisher's output of their books. They provide free views of all the chapters of their books with words below a certain length having their letters consistently (but randomly per word) replaced with other letters. Words over a certain length have their letters not replaced but shuffled. Things like punctuation are left unchanged.

This is an interesting problem that requires good data structures, good input data (n-gram statistics), can be improved with skills in lexing and parsing. It's just a really neat problem.

I don't mind buying the books, but present an interesting challenge and I'm hooked.

My job is actually pretty nice. I genuinely like my coworkers and I work remotely. I just get bored and frustrated with the way web dev goes.

Don't want to say more than that.

It's boring to only ask questions with objective answers! The opinion section of the newspaper is often my favorite. I'm enjoying people's responses.