plipbox « Lallafa's Blog
http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/amiga networking via parallel port
Amiga ATX Adaptors
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/designs/Amiga_ATX_Adaptor/amiga_atx_adaptor.htmlnonbeard 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
Trippy spinning optical illusion
http://kottke.org/16/02/trippy-spinning-optical-illusionA take on the spinning ballerina illusion
Boron Nitride Products: Wurtzite Boron Nitride (WBN)
http://www.ukabrasives.com/boron-nitride/wurtzite-wbn.htmlWurtzite Boron Nitride is a new superabrasive material that is manufactured by detonation.
LONDON CHEESECAKE | Recipes | Nigella Lawson
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/london-cheesecake-147I want this cheesecake so much.
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.
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/1holy shit, people
Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation -- National Geographic Magazine
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/evolution-of-eyes-textnonbeard 2016-01-16 03:36:55
Sock and Buskin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_and_BuskinSymbols of the theatre
Arduino/boards.md at master · esp8266/Arduino · GitHub
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/doc/boards.md#minimal-hardware-setup-for-bootloading-and-usageesp8266 arduino ide
How to C (as of 2016)
https://matt.sh/howto-cDreadful title, good advice
How to Make an Ethernet Cable - Cat5, RJ45 Connectors - VSAT Installation Training
http://www.groundcontrol.com/galileo/ch5-ethernet.htmManipulate 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.
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
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.pdfPaper on deep learning / neural network distillation: training a shallower net to approximate(?) the results of the larger net
Classifying plankton with deep neural networks – Sander Dieleman
http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plankton.htmlSander Dieleman's talk. Again, a convolutional neural network with many tricks, and plenty of commonalities with Jeffrey's approach
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)
https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets2015-12-14 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.
Paradise Mill - Museum in Macclesfield, Macclesfield - Discover Cheshire
http://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/paradise-mill-p27671They've got possibly the world's largest collection of Jacquard looms. Must visit!
Artificial intelligence centre launched by the University of Cambridge - Market Business News
http://marketbusinessnews.com/artificial-intelligence-centre-launched-by-the-university-of-cambridge/114410Sounds a little like the Future of Humanity Institute.
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)
microG Project
https://github.com/microgThe microG Project aims to provide a free and fully-compatible replacement for Google's proprietary user space components in Android.
Language Log » Quinoa: way more than one way to pronounce it
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22551#more-22551kee-NU-wa. Now I feel bad for telling everyone that it was keen-wa. Not that bad.
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
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.html2015-11-28 11:04:54
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-bees-have-feelings
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-bees-have-feelings2015-11-28 11:03:12
marybicycles | Avoiding the analog: Icecast2 for OS X, Sonos & Spotify Radio
http://www.marybicycles.com/avoiding-the-analog-icecast2-for-os-x-sonos-spotify-radio/Stream using shoutcast on a mac
No more Type I/II error confusion « Mind Hacks
http://mindhacks.com/2015/11/16/no-more-type-iii-error-confusion/nonbeard 2015-11-23 16:06:27
Baffling Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608547nonbeard 2015-11-23 01:15:03
Paris attacks: latest evidence points to wider conspiracy | World news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/paris-attacks-latest-evidence-st-denis-wider-conspiracy-isis“Imagine if we had spread the information to the whole world. Do you have any idea of the amount of information that would be spread? No one in the world can handle so much information. There are 135 [returned foreign fighters] that we know of. France has many more. You can share the information, but the question is can you handle the information?” the prosecutor said.
wi fi - Turn off vibration for 'Sign in to WiFi network' notification - Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/126019/turn-off-vibration-for-sign-in-to-wifi-network-notificationAndroid 6.0 shipped without a way to disable vibrate on wifi sign-in notifications
Why are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks? « Pete Warden's blog
http://petewarden.com/2015/05/23/why-are-eight-bits-enough-for-deep-neural-networks/nonbeard 2015-11-13 11:08:27
TensorFlow Examples
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3sc8p9/tensorflow_examples/nonbeard 2015-11-11 08:23:48
Playing Fasttracker 2 .XM files in Javascript – a1k0n.net
http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.htmlPretty nice introduction to Web audio APIs
Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses: a Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.000832015-11-05 09:29:15
Gayageum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GayageumThe gayageum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument
Automatic differentiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiationnonbeard 2015-11-03 15:04:16
Manichaeism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManichaeismGnostic sect which attacked the problem of evil by claiming it as an equally powerful force to good.
The Importance of Neuron Diversity | The Beautiful Brain
http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/08/the-importance-of-neuron-diversity/we found that differences in intrinsic biophysical heterogeneity can be important [for] neural coding.
New mathematical method reveals structure in neural activity in the brain | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=104176932015-10-20 08:01:54
Different Brain Regions are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease : Scientific Reports
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15015woah
Release: Pathfinding with ALT experiment - Comparison between classic and ALT
https://thewalnut.io/app/release/13/#time=24Improve on astar by precalculating paths to one point. You can then triangulate to that point using your precise distances improve your distance estimation. This reduces the number of paths you have to investigate.
Atari dreams with RNNs (the last part of the lecture by Alex Graves)
https://youtu.be/-yX1SYeDHbg?t=29682015-10-13 10:00:49
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike-timing-dependent_plasticitySeems to subsume Hebbian learning but not yet sure how
Behold, The Blue Brain | neuroecology
https://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/behold-the-blue-brain/Blue Brain project: generate accurate-enough models of individual neurons so that neural configurations of interest can be modelled and the results of experiments on the model would match the outcomes of the corresponding in vitro experiments.