Death Burger

DEATH HERALD DEATH BURGER DETH It's drawings

Attack of the Killer Microseconds

GitHub - maralla/completor.vim: Async completion framework made ease

code completion for vim

http://wick.works/crescentloom-ks-postmortem/

Watch "Primary - Nitrous Oxide" on YouTube

Selfie: tiny self-compiling C compiler, MIPS emulator and MIPS hypervisor

Emscripten/HTML integration tips

Hn

Rookie » DIY Finger-Knitted Scarf

the other week I learnt that you can finger knit with more than one finger

GitHub - haypo/hachoir3: Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field

Came up on HN in the discussion about the SHA-1 collision

ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU [pdf]

Very cool description of timing attack on cached page table entries.

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index610.html

The mysteries of time itself!!!!

Sumptuous Sumptuary Laws | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress

Edward III's 1336 law limiting all his subjects (not just the poor!) to only two courses: "two sorts of victuals at the utmost, be it of Flesh or Fish, with the common sorts of pottage, without sawce". For their own good of course: "through the excessive and overmany sorts of costly Meats[...] many mischiefs have happened"

Rosalie's Medieval Woman - Sumptuary Laws

1363: Carters, ploughmen, drivers of ploughs, oxherds, cowherds, swineherds, dairymaids and everyone else working on the land who does not have 40 shillings of goods: no cloth except blanket and russet at 12d per ell, belts of linen (rope).

Mathematical universe hypothesis - Wikipedia

Max Tegmark, with a Schmidhuber cameo

PIMETA v2 Headphone Amplifier

Ant Simulator canceled after crowdfunding money spent on liquor and strippers | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi

"The sound of dirt crumbling echos through the underground tunnels. Your tiny mandibles loosen debris from the walls. "

How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

Zipf’s Law Arises Naturally When There Are Underlying, Unobserved Variables

Really interesting proposal that Zipf's distribution arises so frequently because latent variables with narrow energy distributions, when combined, give a distribution with wide energy distribution, which is necessary and sufficient for a Zipfian distribution. Example: Zipf on word distributions can be explained by the distribution of parts of speech (where the word frequency within parts of speech is not Zipfian, i.e. has narrow energy distribution).

Woolf's Reading of Joyce's Ulysses, 1922-1941 - Modernism Lab Essays

"Never did I read such tosh. As for the first 2 chapters we will let them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th--merely the scratching of pimples on the body of the bootboy at Claridges. Of course genius may blaze out on page 652 but I have my doubts."

Clozure CL

CL being "common Lisp". This is not Clojure. (hn)

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-Of-Two-Based Permutation Logic [pdf]

The limitations of Android N Encryption – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

Interesting article on something I didn't know anything about: full-disk encryption isn't suitable for phones because they're on all the time (meaning the keys are always in memory). Instead you want file-based encryption and per-file control, so that you can throw away the keys to most stuff when the device is locked, but still retain access to files which must be accessible at all times. Android 7 has made a small move in this direction, but it sucks, whereas Apple has been doing it better for the last five years.

Depressing Finland, Some cheery Finnish Christmas charols!

lol depressingfinland.tumblr.com

BashPitfalls - Greg's Wiki

Bash (and all shells except possibly fish) is fucking terrible. The whole in-band signalling concept that shells are built on is a nightmare. When abominations like 'cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$f")"' are the correct way to do basic stuff like "cd to the file's directory" we should just give the whole thing up and go back to meaningful column positions. I defy anyone who has not read "bash pitfalls" to come up with that cd line by themselves (including Stephen Bourne). And the whole page is full of those. Some of them are for exotic things (filenames starting with -, or containing newlines) but in 2016 it's routine to find new shell scripts and Makefiles which don't even deal with spaces, and the reason is that nobody banging out a quick shell script has the time to read through "bash pitfalls" to ensure they're doing it right. More like "bash pits of despair". Burn it all.

Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new pathway to use CO2

A list of headless web browsers

I. J. Good - Wikipedia

Worked with Turing; apparently the originator of Good-Turing smoothing (if Wikipedia is correct, Turing's contribution was merely to observe that the non-smoothed model wasn't very good -- Good then came up with the smoothing method).

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like? : videos

interesting demonstration of, and discussion surrounding, the pilot wave interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Grenouille Bouillie: The dawn of 3D games...

Interesting discussion of microoptimisations for 3d graphics on 68000-based computers such as Amiga and ST. But I note no mention of the blitter...

Light level geolocator - Wikipedia

Use day length and time at sunrise and sunset (actually "threshold time" when light intensity passes a certain threshold) to determine latitude and longitude. Advantage is light sensor-based loggers are much smaller and more power efficient than GPS. Via hn

Keras-based molecular autoencoder

Beyond Ctrl: Make That Caps Lock Key Useful - Economy of Effort

Remap caps lock to BOTH ctrl and escape, in advance of Apple's new BS esc-free laptop

rpi-open-firmware/README.md at master · christinaa/rpi-open-firmware · GitHub

Reverse-engineering the initial bootloading binary blob for rpi. Christinaa has been heavily involved in vc4 reverse engineering iirc?

RNA world - Wikipedia

The RNA world refers to the self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules hypothesised to have been the precursors to all current life on Earth.

The Complete Android Activity/Fragment Lifecycle

"also known as the lolcycle" - hn

Amazon Web Services — a practical guide

[Discussion] Hugo Larochelle's neural network & deep learning tutorial videos, subtitled & screengrabbed

Why video game coders don't use TDD, and why it matters

[1609.01596] Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks

Route Planning in Transportation Networks

Ref contraction hierarchies, as used by OpenStreetMap.

Better Permissions in Android - William Edwards, Coder

Symbian's permission system basically involves embedding

GitHub - Tetrachrome/subpixel: subpixel: A subpixel convolutional neural net implementation with Tensorflow

Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)

"So I ask: Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live for a proper appreciation of his quirks and fancies and flashes of rendering? " It's not that bad.

Research Blog: The 280-Year-Old Algorithm Inside Google Trips

A nice explanation of the intuition behind Christofides' algorithm, which gives an approximate solution to the travelling salesman problem.

VIRTUAL DREAM

dmarc.org – Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance

<warcraft 2 peon voice> more work?

A Soviet scientist created tame foxes

"Hare suspects that, "like the foxes, and like dogs, we became friendlier first, and then got smarter by accident. This would mean that our prosocial skills, the skills that allow for cooperation and friendliness, were what made us successful."" (HN)

Byzantine fault tolerance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In a consensus protocol, ability to reach consensus in the presence of faulty nodes which present different answers to different observers.

how does this twisty scroller work? :: pouët.net

more precalculated blitter copying but with text.

Help for code an effect called "Blitter Tornado" - English Amiga Board

Very nice use of blitter effect