Creating Autonomous Non-Player Characters in Interactive Fiction

http://brasslantern.org/writers/iftheory/autonomousnpcs.html
nonbeard 2014-03-09 21:59:38

Richard A. Bartle: Interactive Fiction and Computers

http://mud.co.uk/richard/ifan194.htm
nonbeard 2014-03-09 21:58:48

The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market

http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554

"Employment polarisation": we have low skill (manual labour), middle skill (clerical), and high skill (management). Automation takes out the middle.

nonbeard 2014-03-07 23:27:34

Structuralism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

"Structuralistic literary criticism argues that the "literary banter of a text" can lie only in new structure, rather than in the specifics of character development and voice in which that structure is expressed."

nonbeard 2014-03-06 12:12:41

Inform 7 for Programmers

http://xyzzy.plover.net/~pscion/inform7.html

I7 started off sounding very mysterious and adventure-gamey; this is the antithesis of that, which is very much what I want.

nonbeard 2014-03-05 22:01:21

Tech companies’ competitive advantage: Bayes’ Rule and behavioral economics | Robohub

http://robohub.org/tech-companies-competitive-advantage-bayes-rule-and-behavioral-economics-2/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tech-companies-competitive-advantage-bayes-rule-and-behavioral-economics-2
nonbeard 2014-03-05 21:56:29

Improve SCP Speed using Tar and SSH

http://www.thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/blog/03-09-2008/using-tar-and-ssh-improve-scp-speeds

Nothing particularly magic about it but here is the cmdline

nonbeard 2014-03-05 12:30:10

Domain Name Registration Search Results • Namecheap.com

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?domain=wzdd.shoes

I could have http://wzdd.shoes/ for a mere $129.88 a year. Also available, sometimes significantly more cheaply: wzdd.today, wzdd.sexy, wzdd.technology, wzdd.enterprises and wzdd.voyage.

nonbeard 2014-03-05 12:26:33

Why vacation at tech companies should be mandatory: better code, happier people - The Sourcegraph Blog

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/mandatory-vacation

"Mandatory vacation policies began in the banking world as a way to uncover fraudulent schemes perpetrated by employees." (via HN, on the MtGox fraud theory story)

nonbeard 2014-03-05 10:13:00

Bad idea: Gmail now discriminates against mail servers without an IPv6 reverse

http://signal.eu.org/blog/category/spam/

It's a dreadful idea given that my hosting provider doesn't even let me *set* an IPv6 reverse, forcing me to send email from IPv4 only

nonbeard 2014-03-02 22:58:28

Determinism Is Not Enough: Making Parallel Programs Reliable with Stable Multithreading | Lambda the Ultimate

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4893

"Stable multithreading (StableMT) reuses each schedule on a wide range of inputs, mapping all inputs to a dramatically reduced set of schedules. By vastly shrinking the [schedule set], it makes the [concurrency errors] much easier to find." Very good and IIRC not entirely novel: I'm sure I've encountered concolic / symbolic execution papers which attempt to reduce the concurrency search space in this way for the same reason.

nonbeard 2014-02-28 22:45:34

New 1 Pcs USB Relay 1 Channel Programmable Computer Control For Smart Home 5V | eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-1-Pcs-USB-Relay-1-Channel-Programmable-Computer-Control-For-Smart-Home-5V-/190943255744?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item2c751adcc0

As used by the hackspace doorbot system (probably not this model).

nonbeard 2014-02-28 16:35:04

Study at the OU - Degrees, Diplomas, Courses, Certificates and Qualifications - Open University

http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/

Always an option

nonbeard 2014-02-27 12:36:46

The Brain’s Inner Language - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/25/science/the-brains-inner-language.html?ref=science&_r=0
nonbeard 2014-02-26 17:36:58

A (Mostly Recentish) IF List, For Breadth | Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling

http://emshort.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/a-mostly-recentish-if-list-for-breadth/

interactive fiction for character research

nonbeard 2014-02-21 15:59:48

New USB 2600 mAh Portable Power Bank External Battery Charger for Mobile Devices | eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131061544621

Battery for electronics projects

nonbeard 2014-02-21 15:50:38

Ugomark Taobao Agent , shopping from Taobao

http://www.ugomark.com/

Front page at the moment: Hot Beach Girls, upto 45% off.

nonbeard 2014-02-20 14:21:11

Kernel From Scratch - Technical Journal

http://davidad.github.io/blog/2014/02/18/kernel-from-scratch/

Love the progression of "bits 16 ... bits 32 ... bits 64" down the code. Bootloaders are an x86 history lesson.

nonbeard 2014-02-18 16:42:30

Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7223969

Semi-inspired by a suggestion in here, I want to make a writing app which encourages you to use obscure words, long sentences, offset clauses, and so forth, just to see whether one opinion about "good writing" is better than another.

nonbeard 2014-02-14 12:56:28

6502.org • View topic - My 3-Chip Design Is Working...

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2854

Michael at 6502.org was inspired by my hardware SID player, among many other designs, when creating this very neat 3-chip 6502 board. Looks great!

nonbeard 2014-02-12 14:37:54

Location Strategies | Android Developers

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/strategies.html

Contains sample code for adding LocationListener and includes advice to query both network and GPS providers. This advice presumably led directly to the bug in Bike Hub, because it doesn't include exception handling or point out that requesting location updates can fail at run time.

nonbeard 2014-02-09 15:35:09

avoto c2750 | Skinflint Price Comparison EU

http://skinflint.co.uk/eu/?fs=avoto+c2750&in=
nonbeard 2014-01-29 13:50:52

Basic Dalvik VM Invocation

http://milk.com/kodebase/dalvik-docs-mirror/docs/hello-world.html

Current Dalvik wants to write odex, so must be root or ANDROID_DATA must be set to directory which contains a dalvik-cache directory into which dalvikvm can write

nonbeard 2014-01-20 18:09:28

Stochastic local search for satisfiability

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/kautz/walksat/

Take your boolean variables and assign random truth values to them. If unsat, negate one of the variables which will result in the fewest true clauses becoming false. Repeat until sat or bored. If bored, start again to avoid local minima. Repeat until really bored.

nonbeard 2014-01-17 13:09:00

Saltatory conduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

the propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node

nonbeard 2014-01-12 18:00:58

Fresh Local and Best: HOW TO MAKE TRUFFLE CHEESE

http://freshlocalandbest.blogspot.nl/2010/02/how-to-make-truffle-cheese.html

A relatively-boring method, but it looks foolproof.

nonbeard 2014-01-11 18:24:15

Allometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometry

Relationships between body size and behaviour

nonbeard 2014-01-11 17:35:45

Anatomical terms of location - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudal_(anatomical_term)
nonbeard 2014-01-11 17:35:44

Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Ram%C3%B3n_y_Cajal

Neuron theory

nonbeard 2014-01-11 17:35:42

Clock synchronization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_synchronization

Besides the incorrectness of time itself [citation needed]...

nonbeard 2014-01-11 17:35:39

What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

Monad

nonbeard 2014-01-10 18:14:30

can't clone git repos via http; info/refs not found - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19698352/cant-clone-git-repos-via-http-info-refs-not-found

Bloody git. "You will need to run git update-server-info on the server to generate the files necessary for the “dumb protocol” to work." My error message was even less informative than the OP's -- a plain "repository not found"

nonbeard 2014-01-10 17:37:31

Lucid Caves - Master System Composition

http://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/1utqa5/lucid_caves_master_system_composition/
nonbeard 2014-01-10 00:12:55

Brain That Wouldn't Die Posters at AllPosters.com

http://www.allposters.com/-st/Brain-That-Wouldn-t-Die-Posters_c47495_.htm

Alive... without a body... fed by an unspeakable horror from hell!

nonbeard 2014-01-06 11:16:00

Using Multiple SSL Certificates in Apache with One IP Address

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-multiple-ssl-certificates-using-sni.htm

Most things support it, but my (old) version of wget didn't. (New one does but it's a bad sign that it's so new...)

nonbeard 2014-01-03 17:00:18

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Pretty fucking weird list. Why do only some countries get "cultural spaces"?

nonbeard 2014-01-02 14:22:05

Frontiers in Zoology | Abstract | Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field

http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/80/abstract

Dogs preferred to excrete with the body being aligned along the North-south axis under calm [magnetic field] conditions

nonbeard 2014-01-01 16:07:34

A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods

http://www.cameronius.com/cv/mcts-survey-master.pdf

Best intro to MC, MCTS, and UCT that I've found so far

nonbeard 2013-12-31 17:00:05

CCC-TV - 30C3 (1/3)

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/

Download when I have internet

nonbeard 2013-12-30 20:05:32

PSA: PCL (polycaprolactone) for your Arduino projects : arduino

http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1tghuo/psa_pcl_polycaprolactone_for_your_arduino_projects/
nonbeard 2013-12-22 21:45:47

PCA is not a Panacea - Dan Luu

http://danluu.com/linear-hammer/
nonbeard 2013-12-17 14:38:44

Quick Start | openl2tp.org

http://www.openl2tp.org/doc/quick_start
nonbeard 2013-12-17 14:38:24

TP-Link TL-MR3420 & TL-MR3220 Howtobuild - OpenWrt Wiki

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howtobuild/tl-mr3420.build
nonbeard 2013-12-17 14:36:56

OsmocomBB

http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/

OsmocomBB is an Free Software / Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation

nonbeard 2013-12-14 00:28:09

How to Setup and Configure an OpenVPN Server on Debian 6 | DigitalOcean

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-debian-6

complex

nonbeard 2013-12-06 22:22:35

Humans 'tried and failed to colonise Britain seven times' - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1528151/Humans-tried-and-failed-to-colonise-Britain-seven-times.html

King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

nonbeard 2013-12-06 15:28:14

Setting up Domains Keys (DKIM) on Postfix | RimuHosting Blog

http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2012/05/17/setting-up-domains-keys-dkim-on-postfix/
nonbeard 2013-12-02 14:37:31

Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282

So good! "Java Virtual Machine in pure CSS" ahaha

nonbeard 2013-11-29 00:00:20

Why Decussate? Topological Constraints on 3D Wiring

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ar.20731

Argues that it is more stable to cross-wire neuronal connections from body to brain.

nonbeard 2013-11-28 13:27:56

Rackham Fairy and Fairy Tale Art (Arthur Rackham)

http://rackham.artpassions.net/

19th and 20th-century children's book illustrator

nonbeard 2013-11-26 14:54:51