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.
Touhou Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou_ProjectOne guy, 15 games, something of a legend
Streaming Spotify from OS X to XBMC on a Raspberry Pi using Soundflower, LadioCast, and Icecast - Daggerfist
http://blog.bywires.com/articles/using-software/streaming-spotify-from-os-x-to-xbmc-on-a-raspberry-pi-using-soundflower-ladiocast-and-icecast/This works, but it doesn't uplift me
http://sandrasenese.com/how-to-make-the-best-egyptian-vegetarian-dish-koshari
http://sandrasenese.com/how-to-make-the-best-egyptian-vegetarian-dish-koshariFood. Worth a try.
OSC — It's Log! It's Log! It's Big, It's Hyper, It's Good!
http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/02/04/its-log-its-log-its-big-its-hyper-its-good/Hyperloglog algorithm
https://github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papers
https://github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papersCurated list of neutral network papers via /r/machinelearning
Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more trees than was thought
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/02/scientists-discover-that-the-world-contains-dramatically-more-trees-than-previously-thought/Great title.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/unsupervised-learning-attention-and-other-mysteries.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/08/unsupervised-learning-attention-and-other-mysteries.html2015-08-30 19:33:08
Debugging OSX airport wifi connection - Super User
https://superuser.com/questions/585473/debugging-osx-airport-wifi-connection/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport - magic hidden equivalent to "iw" on linux
QARK: Discovering Security Holes in Android Apps
http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/qark2015-08-30 02:37:31
How to Compute the Derivative of a Sigmoid Function (fully worked example) | kawahara.ca
http://kawahara.ca/how-to-compute-the-derivative-of-a-sigmoid-function-fully-worked-example/"This part is not intuitive". Yep, it wasn't!
Linux Containers - CGManager - Getting started
https://linuxcontainers.org/cgmanager/getting-started/LXC, required magic to put you in your own cgroup (which some versions of systemd should, but don't, do)
The Power of Power Cycling
http://growthalytics.com/troubleshooting/programming/2015/08/21/the-power-of-power-cycling/nonbeard 2015-08-24 06:00:02
http://openafm.com
http://openafm.comOpen hardware atomic force microscope
r/K selection theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-selection#r-selectionnonbeard 2015-08-21 20:01:04
Installing Nvidia Drivers and CUDA 7.0 in Debian Wheezy | Yohan Jasdid's
http://yohan.jasdid.com/2015/03/installing-nvidia-drivers-and-cuda-7-0-in-debian-wheezy/nonbeard 2015-08-21 15:14:40
Why Functional Tests don’t belong in a Build Environment - A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Software Testing, Part 2 « mgm technology blog
http://blog.mgm-tp.com/2011/02/successful-software-testing-part2/I disagree with pretty much all of this. Objection: You can't do manual tests, such as typing or clicking a button, if your tests are done in your build environment. Response: Well duh, don't have manual tests. Objection: The build / test machine will have a different configuration from the live environment. Response: So will any machine you do testing on, unless you test on production. Eliminate the problematic differences. Objection: When the test fails, you can't debug it. Response: On the other hand you get tests running continuously. When a test fails, reproduce it on your own system and debug it there.
Kasuto.net: The Legend of Zelda
http://www.kasuto.net/zelda1.php?main=zelda1/z1q2walkthru.htmlMuch better second quest walkthrough
The Bell Miner: orthography and ornithology catalyse a folk etymology
http://www.cjvlang.com/Spicks/bellminer.htmlPretty interesting. I know this bird as the Bellbird.
Zelda Universe
http://www.zelda.com/universe/game/zelda/walk.jspWalkthrough for The Adventure of Zelda's second quest.
Should search algorithms be moral? A conversation with Google’s in-house philosopher - Quartz
http://qz.com/451051/should-search-algorithms-be-moral-a-conversation-with-googles-in-house-philosopher/Really bizarre quotes from Floridi here. "Google should not be in charge of what is true today or what is true tomorrow." (Made in support of the status quo, yet the status quo obviously is that Google is in charge of what is true today, in some sense). "Controlling the truth value of what is being circulated, information quality [...] Absolutely, it should be something that gets checked."
An experiment in porting the Android init system to GNU/Linux
http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/08/05/0-androidinit/Completely useless, even from the outset, but a great coverage of Android boot.
Make bash use external `time` command rather than shell built-in - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86266/make-bash-use-external-time-command-rather-than-shell-built-in/86269#86269"enable -n" disables bash built-ins, but 'time' is not a built-in: it's a separate bit of magic which requires a separate thing to disable. Shells are insane. The whole concept of a shell is really outdated and 70s.
Five Geek Social Fallacies
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.htmlGeek Social Fallacy #0, which this guy has curiously forgotten to mention: Geeks Think They Are Special. Geeks tend to think that their social groups differ in material ways from other kinds of social group, despite there being no evidence for this.
Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors
http://tomasp.net/blog/2015/failures/index.htmlNice summary
The Brain vs Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity — Or Why the Singularity Is Nowhere Near | Deep Learning
https://timdettmers.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/brain-vs-deep-learning-singularity/nonbeard 2015-07-27 13:16:54