Sparks of consciousness mapped in most detail yet - life - 09 April 2015 - New Scientist

It now seems that conscious perception requires brain activity to hold steady for hundreds of milliseconds

Buckfast Tonic Wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The beverage has entered the popular lexicon with nicknames such as "Wreck the Hoose Juice", "Commotion Lotion", "Mrs. Brown", "Buckie Baracas", "Coatbridge Table Wine", "Cumbernauld rocket fuel", and a bottle of "what the hell are you looking at?"

Commander Rob Pike tries to write standard higher-order functions in Go; finds that it is easy to implement, and confirms that no one should ever want or need it

I know this is PCJ but just look at the code. Empty interfaces and reflection, just a dreadful implementation. "It wasn't hard and I don't need it. You shouldn't use it"

Hacking Philips Hotel Televisions | rownet.co.uk

This worked but then the TV couldn't play videos from my USB stick. :(

Stanford Seminar - Melissa O'Neill of Harvey Mudd College - YouTube

The talk about pcg-random. This was really interesting and easy to follow.

PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators | PCG, A Better Random Number Generator

Really interesting talk on these (see next bookmark) but basically the claim is that they are a new class of RNGs which are small, well-understood, fast, statistically random, unpredictable, and significantly better than existing algorithms (such as Mersenne Twister, Minstd, XorShift) at most of these things.

The Love/Hate Relationship with DDR SDRAM Controllers

DDR is complex.

How to Directly Program an Inexpensive ESP8266 WiFi Module | Hackaday

Spherification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/12/sweden-stopped-selling-arms-to-saudi-arabia?CMP=fb_gu

ci20_other_files/H5TQ2G83CFR.h at master · ZubairLK/ci20_other_files

CI20 lowered / altered RAM timings

Why do we care about Xiaomi? — Benedict Evans

Argues that Xiaomi is innovating with its Android devices rather than just copying, and hints that this signals a change. It'd be much more interesting if the successor to smartphones comes out of China in the next few years.

MultiROM Manager - Android Apps on Google Play

Run multiple Android images on one device -- good for app testing, but not great for ROM verification (e.g. won't run with encrypted /data)

A Woman Drinking with Two Men

What I just got framed

How to Make Vegan Butter - Regular Vegan Butter - Coconut Oil Base - Veganbaking.net - Recipes, desserts and tips

Afl white paper

Really interesting coverage of the American fuzzy lop fuzzer

Elemotho - Kgala! Namib

CF-Auto-Root

Chainfire autoroot for Android. Installs supersu but doesn't, e.g., change SELinux mode. Requires a device which lets you boot arbitrary code, i.e. an unlocked bootloader.

Londoners born outside of the UK, which take away/restaurant does food that is close or the same as you'd get at home?

Homes wishlist: Eastern folk | Life and style | The Guardian

Crazy plates

Zero Analogy Monad Tutorial | Unknown Parallel

This is almost too much detail

A Neighborhood of Infinity: You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)

Having done a tiny bit of Haskell programming now, my preferred monad tutorial is to write something which uses monads

Is there a good, succinct, metaphor-free Monad tutorial? : haskell

> I would really really love to see a Monad tutorial that matches that description. Then write one

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Book] - Discovering the Human Connectome

PCB Shopper » Find the Cheapest PCB Manufacturer with Our PCB Cost Comparison Calculator

PCB manufacturer comparison site

Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? | Oliver Burkeman | Science | The Guardian

Raymond Blanc's basic chocolate mousse : BBC - Food - Recipes

basic delicious

Applying an experimental procedure to fall in love | Hacker News

This was quite cool.

$0 photogrammetry - a way for faces for game characters : gamedev

Generate models. This is a surprisingly good result

The Synapse Memory Doctrine Threatened? - Neuroskeptic

Neurons may have some way of remembering / modulating total number of synaptic connections

µMatrix

Replacement for http switchboard

lowRISC

Volume production of risc-v

Berkeley’s RISC-V Wants to Be Free

Oh, goody. It’s another new microprocessor instruction set.

Language Log » Do not dumb here

Simplify - a tool for generic Android deobfuscation

Virtual machine for deobfuscation

A comment by nothrabannosir

Pretty interesting allegation that some countries force McDonald's to lower the price of big macs specifically to look better on the economist's 'big mac index'

sleemanj/ESP8266_Simple

esp8266

Kafka: what kind of funny is he?

Via hn

Love Is a Bourgeois Construct

"I love you," he says…. "I've been in love with you for weeks." "There's no such thing," she says. "It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy." "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" "When I was younger," she says, "I allowed myself to be constructed by the discourse of romantic love for a while, yes."

Tony Benn was defiantly, stroppily, youthfully socialist to the very end - Comment - Voices - The Independent

Why Our Memory Fails Us - NYTimes.com

It’s no accident that Oprah Winfrey’s latest best seller is called “What I Know For Sure,” rather than “Some Things That Might Be True.”

Why Eric Schmidt doesn't know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar

Ignoring the trollbaitey headline, this has a very interesting table comparing Google with other companies.

Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In physics, the Bekenstein bound is an upper limit on the entropy S, or information I, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of energy.

Serial Console on Google Nexus 5

Procedural Text Generation in IF | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

The Myth Of AI | Edge.org

Much better than I expected, but I'd like to see more than just the translator example to be convinced. Search itself commoditises human knowledge, but the end result is something which a human couldn't do by themselves.

Ljuva november. : sweden

This just has some great Swedish language in it for a learner, with Swedes being all poetic about how dreadful the weather is. "Men glöm inte att det alltid går att se positivt på saker och ting med om man verkligen vill!"

Bad sex award 2014: who should win? | Books | theguardian.com

God. It's like sticking your cock into the sun.

Rosetta mission: Philae makes historic landing on comet | Science | The Guardian

Yay, humans landed something on a comet!