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
First android performance analysis app for game developers
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gamebench.metricscollector2014-07-18 12:33:31
Equation of time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time#Apparent_time_versus_mean_timenonbeard 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.htmWhy HMRC considers Jaffa Cakes to be cakes.
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.
De Broglie–Bohm theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theorypilot wave theory of quantum mechanics
Pilot wave theory, Bohmian metaphysics, and the foundations of quantum mechanics
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/PWT/lectures/bohm7.pdfPilot wave theory of quantum mechanics. Why does nobody like it? Wikipedia: because it is non-local; explaining behaviours requires knowing state of entire universe
Functors on hn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7895764This 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.")