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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansatz
nonbeard 2016-05-11 14:56:53

Coracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coracle

The 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).

2016-05-08 11:00:09

Partial and Semipartial Correlation

https://web.archive.org/web/20070711175222/http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~mbrannic/files/regression/Partial.html
nonbeard 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.

nonbeard 2016-05-04 11:07:44

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!

nonbeard 2016-05-03 17:32:36

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"?

nonbeard 2016-04-30 00:54:33

The Right Way to Practice

http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/not-all-practice-makes-perfect

The 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.

nonbeard 2016-04-24 13:51:20

Qur’an Memorizers Who Don’t Speak Arabic Learn Grammar from Statistics Alone | Mental Floss

http://mentalfloss.com/us/go/78823

Surprisingly, 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.”

nonbeard 2016-04-22 20:02:05

Khaju Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaju_Bridge

Khaju Bridge is a bridge in the province of Isfahan, Iran, which has been described as the finest in the province.

nonbeard 2016-04-17 11:55:57

Aposematism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism

Aposematism describes a family of antipredator adaptations in which a warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators.

nonbeard 2016-04-17 00:14:05

ElgensRepairs: Homemade 1MB Chip RAM Expansion for Amiga A600

http://elgensrepairs.blogspot.cl/2012/10/homemade-1mb-chip-ram-expansion-for.html

I, for some reason, am doing this.

nonbeard 2016-04-15 22:55:01

How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier

http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy/

Simple, popular, and extensible headphone amplifier

nonbeard 2016-04-08 02:55:16

Raymarching

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/terrainmarching/terrainmarching.htm

Simples!

nonbeard 2016-04-06 10:57:10

Make your own RJ45 dongle for many PCMCIA network cards

http://labs.cexx.org/dongle.htm

Amiga networking

nonbeard 2016-03-31 00:54:55

The pebble component-based operating system

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1268728

Pebble 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.

nonbeard 2016-03-18 02:01:55

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.

nonbeard 2016-03-01 11:07:15

amitools « Lallafa's Blog

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/amitools/

Amiga disassembler

nonbeard 2016-02-22 16:21:06

British Shorthair breeds info, Temperament, kitten names, Price

http://www.catbreedslist.com/all-cat-breeds/british-shorthair.html

Here, 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

nonbeard 2016-02-19 17:45:51

Aminet - dev/src/ScrollingTrick.lha

http://aminet.net/package/dev/src/ScrollingTrick

Amiga scrolling

nonbeard 2016-02-17 03:45:59

5th tutorial, Horizontal scroller - English Amiga Board

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=68751

Amiga horizontal scrolling with the blitter

nonbeard 2016-02-17 03:35:00

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.

nonbeard 2016-02-17 00:55:44

plipbox « Lallafa's Blog

http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/

amiga networking via parallel port

nonbeard 2016-02-15 23:02:44

Amiga ATX Adaptors

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/designs/Amiga_ATX_Adaptor/amiga_atx_adaptor.html
nonbeard 2016-02-05 01:22:36

Cheap RGB to VGA converter – Amiga – Retro Commodore

http://www.retro-commodore.eu/2014/03/11/cheap-rgb-to-vga-converter-amiga/

Looks like a good option

nonbeard 2016-02-05 01:12:08

Trippy spinning optical illusion

http://kottke.org/16/02/trippy-spinning-optical-illusion

A take on the spinning ballerina illusion

nonbeard 2016-02-02 19:16:15

Boron Nitride Products: Wurtzite Boron Nitride (WBN)

http://www.ukabrasives.com/boron-nitride/wurtzite-wbn.html

Wurtzite Boron Nitride is a new superabrasive material that is manufactured by detonation.

nonbeard 2016-01-30 01:21:03

LONDON CHEESECAKE | Recipes | Nigella Lawson

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/london-cheesecake-147

I want this cheesecake so much.

nonbeard 2016-01-23 19:27:01

John Barton (engineer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barton_(engineer)

Barton's engraved metal buttons, mentioned by Babbage as a curio to amuse people he met whilst travelling.

nonbeard 2016-01-20 22:18:02

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms

http://sebastianruder.com/optimizing-gradient-descent/
2016-01-20 14:31:57

backdoor in IRC code · Issue #1 · alerj78/lucky7coin · GitHub

https://github.com/alerj78/lucky7coin/issues/1

holy shit, people

nonbeard 2016-01-16 15:29:36

Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation -- National Geographic Magazine

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes-text
nonbeard 2016-01-16 03:36:55

Sock and Buskin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_and_Buskin

Symbols of the theatre

nonbeard 2016-01-15 20:44:43

Arduino/boards.md at master · esp8266/Arduino · GitHub

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/boards.md#minimal-hardware-setup-for-bootloading-and-usage

esp8266 arduino ide

nonbeard 2016-01-13 01:38:11

How to C (as of 2016)

https://matt.sh/howto-c

Dreadful title, good advice

nonbeard 2016-01-08 16:20:03

How to Make an Ethernet Cable - Cat5, RJ45 Connectors - VSAT Installation Training

http://www.groundcontrol.com/galileo/ch5-ethernet.htm

Manipulate a specific ordering of 8 wires which are constantly moving and/or under tension in unexpected ways into a space about the width of a pinky fingernail, and then ensure that the resulting wires, which were previously in a circular shape and are now flattened out in a line, are all the same length.

nonbeard 2016-01-08 15:26:26

Seitan Roast Stuffed With Shiitakes And Leeks | Post Punk Kitchen | Vegan Baking & Vegan Cooking

http://www.theppk.com/2011/11/seitan-roast-stuffed-with-shiitakes-and-leeks/

Ihor made this. Not sure about the seitan but 100% sure about shiitakes and leeks

nonbeard 2016-01-04 20:35:14

Differentiable Programming

http://edge.org/response-detail/26794
nonbeard 2016-01-03 02:33:24

Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work

http://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-weak-regression-to-the-mean-is-the-main-reason-ineffective-treatments-appear-to-work/
nonbeard 2015-12-16 13:32:57

Do deep nets really need to be deep?

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6184v7.pdf

Paper on deep learning / neural network distillation: training a shallower net to approximate(?) the results of the larger net

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:44:33

Classifying plankton with deep neural networks – Sander Dieleman

http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plankton.html

Sander Dieleman's talk. Again, a convolutional neural network with many tricks, and plenty of commonalities with Jeffrey's approach

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:14:26

Detecting diabetic retinopathy in eye images

http://jeffreydf.github.io/diabetic-retinopathy-detection/

Jeffrey De Fauw's talk on this competition (convolutional neural network-based stack with many tricks)

nonbeard 2015-12-15 22:05:44

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
2015-12-14 08:02:43

Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

Great essay on Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Self-aggrandisement on the part of Stephen Wolfram is present but mercifully does not intrude too much.

nonbeard 2015-12-12 21:13:22

Paradise Mill - Museum in Macclesfield, Macclesfield - Discover Cheshire

http://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/paradise-mill-p27671

They've got possibly the world's largest collection of Jacquard looms. Must visit!

nonbeard 2015-12-11 02:06:05

Artificial intelligence centre launched by the University of Cambridge - Market Business News

http://marketbusinessnews.com/artificial-intelligence-centre-launched-by-the-university-of-cambridge/114410

Sounds a little like the Future of Humanity Institute.

nonbeard 2015-12-06 17:49:31

Snowman Decompiler MIPS version 1.0 : ReverseEngineering

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/3vh7f7/snowman_decompiler_mips_version_10/

finally a mips decompiler which doesn't suck (possibly)

nonbeard 2015-12-05 18:31:56

microG Project

https://github.com/microg

The microG Project aims to provide a free and fully-compatible replacement for Google's proprietary user space components in Android.

nonbeard 2015-12-02 23:46:41

Language Log » Quinoa: way more than one way to pronounce it

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22551#more-22551

kee-NU-wa. Now I feel bad for telling everyone that it was keen-wa. Not that bad.

nonbeard 2015-11-30 20:03:32

Playing music on a Raspberry Pi using UPnP and DLNA (v3)

http://blog.scphillips.com/posts/2014/05/playing-music-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-upnp-and-dlna-v3/

dlna audio streamer for raspberry pi

nonbeard 2015-11-29 13:27:35

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/08/experiments-reveal-that-crabs-and-lobsters-feel-pain.html

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/08/experiments-reveal-that-crabs-and-lobsters-feel-pain.html
2015-11-28 11:04:54
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