Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/Nice intro to non-zlib compression techniques Finite State Entropy and Repcode Modelling... plus a lot of solid engineering work to get code running quickly on modern processors. (hn)
Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution | Open Science
http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/8/160305nonbeard 2016-09-01 10:01:48
Web Scraping in 2016 | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345693No mucking about with wget, straight to selenium. Nice.
RNNs in Tensorflow, a Practical Guide and Undocumented Features – WildML
http://www.wildml.com/2016/08/rnns-in-tensorflow-a-practical-guide-and-undocumented-features/nonbeard 2016-08-21 22:35:47
Ask HN: Is it possible to run your own mail server for personal use? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282231A very heartening thread as it is mostly positive (also because I'm already doing almost all the suggestions mentioned in-thread to avoid idiotic antispam systems at large email providers).
Remove sensitive information from email headers with postfix - major.io
https://major.io/2013/04/14/remove-sensitive-information-from-email-headers-with-postfix/... except that you want to use smtp_header_checks rather than header_checks, as per comments, else you'll censor incoming mail too. This is useful (as per HN comments) because the X-Originating-IP is sometimes inspected for blacklisted IP ranges, and spamfiltered on match, by large email providers
Raft (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_(computer_science)Raft is a consensus algorithm designed as an alternative to Paxos. It was meant to be more understandable than Paxos by means of separation of logic, but it is also formally proven safe and offers some new features.
Windowing Systems by Example: Introduction
http://www.trackze.ro/windowing-systems-learning-by-example-introduction/"The Academic Programmer: This person builds things to find out how things are built. If you are in this category, you shun libraries in lieu of reimplementing them yourself because you like learning by doing. You’re a lover of languages that do nothing for you, but also do their best to stay out from between you and the machine." (It gets worse after this.)
Paint Drip People
https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/paint-drip-people/1226700000696195the paint drip model of skills
Fun brain fact: 13 spikes per second is too much energy | neuroecology
https://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/fun-brain-fact-13-spikes-per-second-is-too-much-energy/nonbeard 2016-07-31 22:29:44
Altruism is favored by chance: Mathematicians may have found an answer to the longstanding puzzle as to why we have evolved to cooperate -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160719124256.htm"the total size of population that can be supported depends on the proportion of cooperators: more cooperation means more food for all and a larger population. If, due to chance, there is a random increase in the number of cheats then there is not enough food to go around and total population size will decrease. Conversely, a random decrease in the number of cheats will allow the population to grow to a larger size, disproportionally benefitting the cooperators." (schneier)
Sex-Typing Markers
http://www.cstl.nist.gov/strbase/sextype.htmsex typing with amelogenin
Book of Proof – An introduction to the methods of proving mathematical theorems
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/nonbeard 2016-07-16 18:30:08
USB Host Shield for Arduino Pro Mini « Circuits@Home
https://www.circuitsathome.com/products-page/arduino-shields/usb-host-shield-for-arduino-pro-mininonbeard 2016-07-15 12:40:14
Study proposes explanation for how cephalopods see color, despite black and white vision
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-07-explanation-cephalopods-black-white-vision.htmlMaybe chromatic abberation detected by altering focal distance of eye (via schneieronsecurity)
https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrils
https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrilsnonbeard 2016-07-06 21:11:55
CloudABI for Mac OS X, part three: thread-local storage
https://nuxi.nl/blog/2016/05/10/cloudabi-for-mac-part-3.htmlThe depressing state of fs register setting from userspace on Mac OS X. I wonder if hypervisor.framework would be a better way of handling this..
Amour-propre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amour-propreAmour-propre (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that esteem depends upon the opinion of others.
Mappings for Squaring the Disc - 1509.06344.pdf
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1509/1509.06344.pdfJust a lovely paper with different methods for representing points on a circle in a square and vice versa. Pictures, proofs if you want them, several choices of mapping function, analysis of what it means and desirable properties.
Cortex Amiga Floppy Emulator
https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/wip
The Flying Frog Blog: Disadvantages of purely functional programming
http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/disadvantages-of-purely-functional.htmlnonbeard 2016-06-05 16:05:00
Language Log » The mysterious Interchange Level
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=26094Yay! My "Use all available doors" nerdview bitching has been legitimised by Language Log!
Oh, I'm such a happy Chewbacca! - vidme
https://vid.me/5WoZthis is a beautiful thing.
‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/opinion/24zizek.html?_r=0Zizek (or his editor) has a knack for a headline.
Antanaclasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasisthe stylistic scheme of repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning.
Schizotypy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchizotypyIn psychology, schizotypy is a theory stating that there is a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to more extreme states related to psychosis and in particular, schizophrenia.
Subjunctive Mood
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000031.htmIf love *were* a crime, then we would be criminals.
The Pigeons Nesting, Mating and Feeding Habits
http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Pigeons.htmlThe nesting habits of these birds are a bit unique. The male chooses a site in view of the female, selecting one stick and bringing it back, lays it in front of his mate. The female who stays at the nesting site accepts the sticks the male brings to her and places them underneath her.
Dual-phase evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-phase_evolution"Dual phase evolution (DPE) is a process that promotes the emergence of large-scale order in complex systems." There's something odd about this. It gives the example of people socialising and alternating between "local phase" (only interacting with people they know) and "global phase" (interactive with new people). But these phases are usually intermingled. So in what sense are they phases? Really all we are saying is that people interact with other people, and those other people are previously unknown with a certain (I guess low) probability.
Ansatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansatznonbeard 2016-05-11 14:56:53
Coracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoracleThe coracle is a small, roundish shaped, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales but also in parts of Western and South West England, Ireland (particularly the River Boyne), and Scotland (particularly the River Spey).
Partial and Semipartial Correlation
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711175222/http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~mbrannic/files/regression/Partial.htmlnonbeard 2016-05-07 13:33:47
How to Quantize Neural Networks with TensorFlow « Pete Warden's blog
https://petewarden.com/2016/05/03/how-to-quantize-neural-networks-with-tensorflow/They treat it like a compiler pass, unwrapping and wrapping around each operating and then removing redundant stages as a separate phase.
AdBlock Plus teams up with Flattr to help readers pay publishers
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/03/adblock-plus-teams-up-with-flattr-to-help-readers-pay-publishers/Very interesting. The problem is pervasive tracking!
Study: Elite scientists can hold back science - Vox
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/15/10219330/elite-scientists-hold-back-progress"Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time"?
The Right Way to Practice
http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfectThe lesson I'm getting from this is: be very specific about your success criteria for practise. "Get this section right" isn't good enough. "Get this section note-perfect and to tempo three times in a row" is better.
Qur’an Memorizers Who Don’t Speak Arabic Learn Grammar from Statistics Alone | Mental Floss
http://mentalfloss.com/us/go/78823Surprisingly, the memorizers with no classroom Arabic did better than those who had had lessons, suggesting that a “top-down approach” that explains the rules of language “may negatively impact learners’ sensitivity to the bottom-up statistics of a language.”
Khaju Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaju_BridgeKhaju Bridge is a bridge in the province of Isfahan, Iran, which has been described as the finest in the province.
Aposematism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AposematismAposematism describes a family of antipredator adaptations in which a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators.
ElgensRepairs: Homemade 1MB Chip RAM Expansion for Amiga A600
http://elgensrepairs.blogspot.cl/2012/10/homemade-1mb-chip-ram-expansion-for.htmlI, for some reason, am doing this.
How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier
http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy/Simple, popular, and extensible headphone amplifier
Raymarching
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/terrainmarching/terrainmarching.htmSimples!
Make your own RJ45 dongle for many PCMCIA network cards
http://labs.cexx.org/dongle.htmAmiga networking
The pebble component-based operating system
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1268728Pebble is an OS which generates specialised code to improve the speed of cross-domain transfer. I studied it ten years ago and am bookmarking it now before every pebble-related link on the Web points to the Pebble smartwatch.
A Guide to Men’s Hat Styles | Articles of Style
http://articlesofstyle.com/60664/a-guide-to-mens-hat-styles/Really reinforces the point that if you want to wear a hat (or at least a formal hat) then you have to dress appropriately.
amitools « Lallafa's Blog
http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/amitools/Amiga disassembler
British Shorthair breeds info, Temperament, kitten names, Price
http://www.catbreedslist.com/all-cat-breeds/british-shorthair.htmlHere, or to alert master hair bulb, cat useful tongue self cleaning habits, but also eat a lot of maomao, so feed it to eat a little spit on a regular basis the bulb creams
Aminet - dev/src/ScrollingTrick.lha
http://aminet.net/package/dev/src/ScrollingTrickAmiga scrolling
5th tutorial, Horizontal scroller - English Amiga Board
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68751Amiga horizontal scrolling with the blitter
Hard Drive SMART Stats
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/Primarily interesting because it shows that quite a few / most SMART stats aren't indicative of anything much.