Introducing The Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime Ref. 5175R, Their Most Complicated Wristwatch Yet — HODINKEE - Wristwatch News, Reviews, & Original Stories
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/introducing-patek-philippe-grandmaster-chime-ref-5175rThis watch costs £1.6m and is called "Grand Master Chime".
The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net
http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic-theory_lists.numenta.org/2014-October/001453.htmlJeff Hawkins on his HTM vs ANNs: summary -- HTMs have small world networks, many more synapses, and learn mostly through synapse creation; ANNs have local networks, relatively few synapses, and learn mostly through weight modification
The Internet Of Someone Else’s Things | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/11/the-internet-of-someone-elses-things/Corporations will have increased access to, and control over, internet-connected devices.
RPi Bluetooth LE - eLinux.org
http://elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LEBLE from Raspberry Pi. Basically compile-it-yourself bluez then a quick bluez tutorial
Schneier on Security: iPhone Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/iphone_encrypti_1.htmlCrypto on phones won't make policework harder.
Getting started with nRF51 development on Mac OS X - Nordic developer zone
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/blogs/22/getting-started-with-nrf51-development-on-mac-os-x/Mac support for Nrf51 / nrf51822
Ken Shirriff's blog: Down to the silicon: how the Z80's registers are implemented
http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-implemented-down.htmlvia hn
The HyNES Realm - Emu Resources
https://www.castledragmire.com/hynes/reference/resource/index.htmlsimple nes demos for emu devs
Phison 2251-03 (2303) Custom Firmware & Existing Firmware Patches
https://github.com/adamcaudill/PsychsonFor PS2303-based flash drives
Introducing The A. Lange & Söhne Richard Lange Tourbillon "Pour le Mérite," Now In White Gold (Live Pictures, Pricing) — HODINKEE - Wristwatch News, Reviews, & Original Stories
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/introducing-a-lange-sohne-richard-lange-tourbillon-pour-le-merite$200k watch
Milanese Mesh watches
http://www.fashionising.com/clothing/b--milanese-mesh-watches-25831.htmlnonbeard 2014-09-28 14:09:22
Texas Instruments DRV8662
http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/12fc/0900766b812fc3e1.pdfPiezo Haptic Driver with Integrated Boost Converter
hlnd/nrf51-pure-gcc-setup
https://github.com/hlnd/nrf51-pure-gcc-setupnRF51822
HackManhattan’s Nordic nRF51822 breakout board | Dangerous Prototypes
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/05/19/hackmanhattans-nordic-nrf51822-breakout-board/nonbeard 2014-09-25 16:39:20
DIY Inductive Charger - Hack A Year
https://sites.google.com/site/ddmcintosh2projects/inductive-chargernonbeard 2014-09-25 15:31:51
OK Labs Story (5): Qualcomm | microkerneldude
https://microkerneldude.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/ok-labs-story-5-qualcomm/nonbeard 2014-09-25 13:09:12
LCD PIC® MCU Tips 'n Tricks
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41261b.pdfUsage of VLCD
Inside Scoop SF » Richmond restaurant encourages bad Yelp reviews
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/09/17/richmond-restaurant-owner-encourages-bad-yelp-reviews/Encourage negative reviews, reducing the value of Yelp and getting lots of publicity in the process. Love it.
The Danish Sugar Beet Auctions
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/PEC2011/presentations2011/toft.pdfFascinating: trading rights for Danish sugar beet production in a double auction, using encrypted bids which are never decrypted. The computation for the trading price is performed directly on the encrypted data using "secure multiparty computation", which sounds similar to, but isn't, homomorphic encryption.
In the Kitchen with Jarod: Make a Mother of Vinegar | MAKE: Craft
http://makezine.com/craft/in_the_kitchen_with_jarod_make/This looks fun.
Sciento: Welcome to Sciento
http://www.sciento.co.uk/Organisms for Biological Sciences
Molecular Psychiatry - Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2014105a.htmlAssortative: relating to the preferential mating of animals with similar characteristics.
Robust and maintainable testing with UiAutomator for Android | Info | theguardian.com
http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2013/jul/31/robust-testing-uiautomator-androidNice overview
uiautomator | Android Developers
https://developer.android.com/tools/help/uiautomator/index.htmlAndroid UI testing -- this is the successor to monkeyrunner and hierarchyviewer.
Wireless Power Charger!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Wireless-Ipod-Charger/?ALLSTEPSwireless charging is pretty simple: basically a long-distance transformer. On the receiving end you need a rectifier (ac->dc), regulator (->5v), and a capacitor to even out the charge. That's basically it.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.htmlErdös. He was twenty-one when he buttered his first piece of bread, his mother or a domestic servant having always done it for him. "I remember clearly," he said. "I had just gone to England to study. It was teatime, and bread was served. I was too embarrassed to admit that I had never buttered it. I tried. It wasn't so hard."
Direct Driving of LCD Using General Purpose IO
http://www.atmel.com/images/doc8103.pdfQuite neat. They give the backplanes VCC (IO output high), GND (IO output low), and VCC / 2 (IO input floating, pulled to VCC / 2 using an external voltage divider)
Paris Review – The Future According to Stanisław Lem , Ezra Glinter
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/12/the-future-according-to-stanislaw-lem/Should read Stanisław Lem
images - Alternative for Graphviz with better automatic node placement for large graphs? - Software Recommendations Stack Exchange
http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/40/alternative-for-graphviz-with-better-automatic-node-placement-for-large-graphsIt's pretty hard and there are no good alternatives. But suggestions from a GraphViz dev: "If "large" means maybe hundreds of nodes, try neato -Goverlap=false (to avoid node text label overlap) and possibly -Gmodel=subset to try for better clustering."
Using HM-10 BLE Modules as Low-Cost iBeacons
http://www.blueluminance.com/HM-10-as-iBeacon.pdfMostly useful for the AT commands given to keep the thing's power consumption low
Microcontroller Projects: PIC MCU LCD Driver 4 commmon 7 Segmented LCD & PIC16F917
http://www.circuitvalley.com/2012/02/pic16f917pic16f1907-7segmentlcddriverex.htmlDriving a multisegment LCD with a PIC
Super Mario World vs. the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics
http://msm.runhello.com/p/20Multiple overlayed Marios is, suprisingly, a useful metaphor for the testing work I'm doing currently.
New-agey interviews at the grocery startup - just another scala quant
http://www.jasq.org/just-another-scala-quant/new-agey-interviews-at-the-grocery-startupnice data science story
Viterbi algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viterbi_algorithmFind the most likely sequence of hidden states that results in a sequence of observed events. (Especially in the context of Markov information sources and hidden Markov models.)
scrooloose/syntastic
https://github.com/scrooloose/syntasticSyntax / style checker for Vim, with multiple languages.
Agon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgonIn general, the term refers to a struggle or contest.
Um hey, Scientific American? Bird knees bend the same way as everyone else.
http://skeletaldrawing.blogspot.de/2011/09/um-hey-scientific-american-bird-knees.htmlA daily-facts site was posted on Hacker News. The top comment was someone explaining why they day's fact was wrong, with a link to this site.
Bypass Antivirus Dynamic Analysis
http://packetstorm.foofus.com/papers/virus/BypassAVDynamics.pdfAll pretty basic techniques. Interesting paper. My two favourites are: simply use a lot of resources, because AV dynamic analysis doesn't have much time to spare; and rely on an OS call failing (e.g. EEXIST for the mutex), because AV sandboxes are designed to emulate the system's "good case".
Vincit qui se vincit | Latin D
http://latindiscussion.com/forum/latin/vincit-qui-se-vincit.7061/Two interesting notes about my old high school's motto: 1) the full quote is "bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria", which completely changes the meaning ("He conquers twice, who conquers himself when he is victorious" -- i.e. first you conquer others, then you conquer yourself, rather than the reversed temporal ordering implied by the short form); 2) It could also mean "he who shackles himself wins".
Blog: Writing a Garbage Collector in C
http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~maplant2/gc.htmlNicely-explained implementation of Boehm GC
Wireless network configuration - ArchWiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration"Some users may encounter errors with powersave on this card. " - for rtl8723be in gigabyte brix
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Vintage 1912 Bioshock Infinite - Style Waltz Cover - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPbg9ljE4Mvideo
Why Genius may struggle to annotate the world | MASSOLIT
http://themassolit.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/why-genius-may-struggle-to-annotate-the-world/"once you get to texts that don’t go out of their way to be clever and allusive – which is most of them, by the way – the appropriateness and usefulness of annotations declines rapidly." Basically, rap is highly intertextual, most other things are not; annotations therefore work for rap; annotations aren't so good for other genres. Also one of the co-founders is a dreadful person.
John Sutton's page
http://www.johnsutton.net/Mac Uni philosopher working on memory as featured on suchthatcast
Welcome to the FUNcube Web Site
http://funcube.org.uk/This is a microsatellite in polar orbit. I should be able to use my RTL-SDR to listen to it, but doing so from a Mac is tedious.
How to optimize Raspberry Pi code using its GPU « Pete Warden's blog
http://petewarden.com/2014/08/07/how-to-optimize-raspberry-pi-code-using-its-gpu/VideoCore 4
My history with Forth & stack machines
http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.htmlForth looks really simple and interesting; forth is easy to write; forth is very clever; forth would be an ideal solution for my hardware configuration problem; forth isn't easy to adapt to the problem domain; forth would require me to rethink the problem; forth is about designing the entire system in a forth-like way; forth isn't for me. It's a very interesting and well-written article. Via HN.
Calque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calqueskyscraper list is amazing