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BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration test use. In March 2013, the Offensive Security team rebuilt BackTrack around the Debian distribution and released it under the name Kali Linux. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BackTrackA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Sample-efficient backtrack temporal difference deep reinforcement learningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Use of macros in backtrack programmingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A Sufficient Condition for Backtrack-Free SearchCited 422 times
- Go sideways: Kali LinuxA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Offensive SecurityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The act of backtracking.
Verb To retrace one's steps.
Verb To repeat or review work already done.
Verb To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A Sufficient Condition for Backtrack-Free Search
Backtrack Programming
Backtrack search algorithms and the maximal common subgraph problem
Backtrack programming techniques
Bounds on Backtrack Algorithms for Listing Cycles, Paths, and Spanning Trees
Stochastic resetting in backtrack recovery by RNA polymerases
A sufficient condition for backtrack-bounded search
Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs
🆕 Influential since 2022
Sample-efficient backtrack temporal difference deep reinforcement learning
Decomposition of Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtle carcasses and its application to backtrack modeling of beach strandings
Aircraft sequencing under the uncertainty of the runway occupancy times of arrivals during the backtrack procedure
One-Step Forward and Backtrack: Overcoming Zig-Zagging in Loss-Aware Quantization Training
A Benefit-Cost Analysis of BackTrack, a Multi-Component, Community-Based Intervention for High-Risk Young People in a Rural Australian Setting
📚 Books worth reading
Use of macros in backtrack programmingJames Richard Bitner · 1974
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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