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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."

nonbeard 2014-07-27 00:32:30

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?

nonbeard 2014-07-26 03:31:00

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

nonbeard 2014-07-25 14:00:57

Superrationality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superrationality

Current Wikipedia has some very non-NPOV snark at the end about superrationality and MAD.

nonbeard 2014-07-24 21:27:46

You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog

http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

Two 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.

nonbeard 2014-07-23 13:33:18

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.html
nonbeard 2014-07-23 13:32:11

First android performance analysis app for game developers

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamebench.metricscollector
2014-07-18 12:33:31

Equation of time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time#Apparent_time_versus_mean_time
nonbeard 2014-07-16 23:34:29

Excepted items: Confectionery: The bounds of confectionery, sweets, chocolates, chocolate biscuits, cakes and biscuits: The borderline between cakes and biscuits

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vfoodmanual/vfood6260.htm

Why HMRC considers Jaffa Cakes to be cakes.

nonbeard 2014-07-13 13:10:41

How to write a minimal WebKit browser in 30 lines of Swift

http://practicalswift.com/2014/06/27/a-minimal-webkit-browser-in-30-lines-of-swift/

I really liked this tutorial for its back-to-basics nature and avoidance of GUI toolkits, which are essentially magic. Explaining it all in terms of code is educational in a way that "drop this component in Interface Builder" would not be.

nonbeard 2014-07-13 00:09:01

De Broglie–Bohm theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

pilot wave theory of quantum mechanics

nonbeard 2014-07-13 00:07:09

Pilot wave theory, Bohmian metaphysics, and the foundations of quantum mechanics

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/PWT/lectures/bohm7.pdf

Pilot wave theory of quantum mechanics. Why does nobody like it? Wikipedia: because it is non-local; explaining behaviours requires knowing state of entire universe

nonbeard 2014-07-13 00:06:45

Functors on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895764

This and a short explanation by wting explained it very nicely. ("A functor is a thing that can be mapped over. [...] Arrays are the simplest example, but it looks like an iterable. However functors retain shape whereas iterables don't.")

nonbeard 2014-06-15 22:07:22

Generics and protocols - Google Groups

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/swift-language/3PtydRXR0ao

"It wouldn’t make sense to have Generator<Int> and Generator<String> because then types that implemented one wouldn’t be implementing the same protocol as types that implemented another. So there’s only one Generator protocol, but the next() method in it varies in its return type based on which class is implementing it". Pretty interesting. Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895504

nonbeard 2014-06-15 20:09:02

How Chip-On-Boards are Made - Learn.SFE

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-chip-on-boards-are-made/all

This is amazing!

nonbeard 2014-06-04 22:14:42

Untapped opportunities in AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7846308
2014-06-04 19:00:32

The Kernel Trick

http://www.eric-kim.net/eric-kim-net/posts/1/kernel_trick.html
nonbeard 2014-06-04 01:05:47

Yeti programming language

http://mth.github.io/yeti/

ML-alike for the JVM

nonbeard 2014-06-02 23:53:04

Parsing English with 500 lines of Python « Computational Linguistics

http://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/a-simple-fast-algorithm-for-natural-language-dependency-parsing/
nonbeard 2014-05-26 14:34:45

A good POS tagger in about 200 lines of Python « Computational Linguistics

http://honnibal.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/a-good-part-of-speechpos-tagger-in-about-200-lines-of-python/

Very well written

nonbeard 2014-05-26 14:34:32

Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
2014-05-22 13:10:47

Tupper's self-referential formula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper's_self-referential_formula

Tupper's self-referential formula is a self-referential formula defined by Jeff Tupper that, when graphed in two dimensions, can visually reproduce the formula itself.

nonbeard 2014-05-20 21:15:16

Watch "Barry from Watford calls Iain Lee about Blue Badg…" on YouTube

http://youtu.be/FOKKPJzr-4w

Highly recommended

nonbeard 2014-05-18 09:38:38

Transform any text into a patent application – Sam Lavigne

http://lav.io/2014/05/transform-any-text-into-a-patent-application/

This is great.

nonbeard 2014-05-11 23:36:47

Travel Clothing for Men and Women: Multi-pocket Vests, Jackets, Shirts, Pants

http://www.scottevest.com/

total pockets sold

nonbeard 2014-05-10 10:44:00

Hel looks

http://www.hel-looks.com/

Helsinki street style blog

nonbeard 2014-05-08 20:32:21

Chang flash from 4M to 16M, Which file of openwrt need to modify (Page 1) — General Discussion — OpenWrt

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=47311

8M flash

nonbeard 2014-05-05 14:03:24

TP-Link MR3420v1 16M flash /64M Memory hardware mod with uboot bin (Page 1) — Hardware Hacking — OpenWrt

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=32512

8mb of flash on the wr703n -- only double the stock amount, but you can fit so much more of a usable system in 8mb.

nonbeard 2014-05-05 02:06:21

Gyromitra esculenta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyromitra_esculenta

Problem: your mushroom delicacy contains deadly poison. No worries! Simply boil the mushrooms 3 times in separate water to leach the poison out. Don't do it inside though, because you'll breathe in poison vapour! Also, some poison remains in the mushroom. Homo sapiens, you crazy bastards.

nonbeard 2014-05-01 18:04:58