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
AsciiDoc Home Page
http://asciidoc.org/I keep using Markdown but ought to switch, probably
Hearthstone dev invents stories that tell themselves | Polygon
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/28/5929187/hearthstone-storybricks-storytelling-engine-ai-director-blizzardnonbeard 2014-07-31 11:09:11
Mutual information - Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Mutual_informationnonbeard 2014-07-31 11:00:39
Mutual information - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_informationnonbeard 2014-07-31 11:00:25
Your Brain Is On the Brink of Chaos - Issue 15: Turbulence - Nautilus
http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/your-brain-is-on-the-brink-of-chaosAnother article on criticality (which doesn't mention Bak)
Self-Organized Criticality: An Explanation of 1/f Noise
http://webber.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~jeti/studenten_seminar/stud_sem05/bak.pdfBak (et al)'s paper on minimally-stable states in pendula, sand, brains
Toward a Theory of Self-Organized Criticality in the Brain | Simons Foundation
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140403-a-fundamental-theory-to-model-the-mind/Per Bak's self-organised criticality theory
Lithium (medication) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)7-Up used to have lithium in it. Not quite as glamorous as cocaine:"The product, originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[67] It contained the mood stabilizer lithium citrate, and was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.[68] Its name was soon changed to 7 Up; all American beverage makers were forced to remove lithium in 1948."
Mole Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_Day"various activities often related to chemistry or moles". Often, but not necessarily?
FAQ: What is “sexism”? | Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/sexism-definition/A definition of sexism as "prejudice plus power". This isn't the dictionary definition of sexism (which is just about gender-based prejudice), but it describes a separate and important concept which is well illustrated by the historical discrimination against women in Western societies combined with an inherited power structure which allows the discrimination to continue. I wish there was a separate word for it, though, because now sexism has two definitions and they are different but similar enough to cause problems in debate. Via liedra
Superrationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperrationalityCurrent Wikipedia has some very non-NPOV snark at the end about superrationality and MAD.
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog
http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionaryTwo ideas: 1) Find decent out-of-copyright *British* English dictionaries. 2) Do some kind of Google thing to produce a crowdsourced dictionary using whatever words and phrases turn up in common (uncommon? word + synonym? word + antonym?) searches.
How to build and run your first deep learning network - O'Reilly Radar
http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/07/how-to-build-and-run-your-first-deep-learning-network.htmlnonbeard 2014-07-23 13:32:11