Playfair cipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipherLove the comparison with modern ciphers.
RTL-SDR community on Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDRThese are cheap; couldn't resist
Pale Fire: Notes: A Bolt From The Blue By Mary McCarthy
http://innerlea.com/aulit/paleFire/notes/mccarthy.htmlnonbeard 2013-11-23 23:29:06
Nil - Esolang
http://esolangs.org/wiki/Nil"Notice the use of the -w option in the above example, which turns on compiler warnings; novice Nil programmers are strongly encouraged to make use of this feature."
Fast Broadband Internet Access - 8Mb, 16Mb and 24Mb Line Speeds - Static IP and Multiple IP addresses - Unmetered and Unlimited Packages - Bonding - Low Latency - LLU - Migration - MLPPP - Reverse DNS : XILO
http://www.xilo.net/adsl_broadband/ISP with no filtering
Home & Home Office Broadband Overview | Home & Home Office Broadband | Home & Home Office | Zen Internet
http://www.zen.co.uk/home-office/broadband/home-office-broadband.aspx#2ISP with no filtering
Building a Nexus 4 UART Debug Cable | Accuvant LABS Blog
http://blog.accuvantlabs.com/blog/jdryan/building-nexus-4-uart-debug-cableApparently use 1.8v for rx/tx
Injective function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injective_functionInjective, surjective, bijective
Rooting SIM cards | Security Research Labs
https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/nonbeard 2013-11-13 17:49:16
Information about SIM Cards and STK Applets. - simhacks
http://simhacks.github.io/nonbeard 2013-11-13 17:33:54
jCardSim | Java Card Runtime Environment Simulator
http://jcardsim.org/nonbeard 2013-11-13 17:20:51
The Secret Life of SIM Cards // Speaker Deck
https://speakerdeck.com/codebutler/the-secret-life-of-sim-cardsnonbeard 2013-11-13 17:19:37
Using Static Analysis For Software Defect Detection - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZ8YWVl-2snonbeard 2013-11-09 12:34:05
Twitter / PoppyLegion: Generous Mancunians dug deep ...
https://twitter.com/PoppyLegion/status/396308596461273088/photo/1"Future Soldier". Holy shit.
Program analysis technology
https://github.com/turnersr/turnersr.github.io/blob/master/technology_review/Technology_Survey.mdlist of program analysers
Writing OpenGL ES 2.0 and Desktop Compatible Shaders - Ben McDowell
http://www.benmcdowell.com/blog/2011/12/21/writing-opengl-es-2-dot-0-and-desktop-compatible-shaders/nonbeard 2013-10-31 14:07:21
Breakfast quinoa with clementines, sour cherries and pecans — Mostly Eating
http://www.mostlyeating.com/breakfast-quinoa-with-clementines-sour-cherries-and-pecans/I love food
Home · thecodepath/android_guides Wiki
https://github.com/thecodepath/android_guides/wikinonbeard 2013-10-28 14:31:33
The Analogical Instinct: The Analogical Instinct and the One Cortical Algorithm
http://theanalogicalinstinct.blogspot.sk/2013/10/the-analogical-instinct-and-one.htmlBut then, in 2004, I ran into the "one algorithm" hypothesis, popularized by Jeff Hawkins, and it changed the course of my career, reigniting a passion for general AI.
The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think - James Somers - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/Hofstadter. "On the one hand, the software we know how to write is very orderly; most computer programs are organized like a well-run army, with layers of commanders, each layer passing instructions down to the next, and routines that call subroutines that call subroutines. On the other hand, the software we want to write would be adaptable—and for that, a hierarchy of rules seems like just the wrong idea."
Research Shows That Cocaine and Heroin Are Less Addictive Than Oreos - Hit & Run : Reason.com
http://reason.com/blog/2013/10/16/researchers-show-that-cocaine-and-heroinvia mind hacks
Frontiers | Synaesthesia and sexuality: the influence of synaesthetic perceptions on sexual experience | Frontiers in Cognitive Science
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00751/fullOceanic boundlessness. Via mind hacks
Behind the Name: Random Name Generator
http://www.behindthename.com/random/Awesome! Dazhdbog Alban Košar.
three.js css3d - periodic table
http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodictable/nifty.
BGA and QFP at Home 1 - A Practical Guide.
http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/499/fpga-prototyping-at-home-1-a-practical-guideMostly interesting to me because it discusses a netlist format for defining circuits. I wanted to do this ever since I first tried to route a connection in Altium: much easier to just write down how things are connected and then let a computer figure out how to route it.
Backpropogation is Just Steepest Descent with Automatic Differentiation | Idontgetoutmuch’s Weblog
http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/backpropogation-is-just-steepest-descent-with-automatic-differentiation-2/Shows that backpropagation is a form of automatic differentiation. Apparently automatic differentiation is becoming trendy, but symbolic differentiation, if possible, can be significantly faster.
On Seeing A's and Seeing As
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/hofstadter.htmlHofstadter: The logic-based format approach to AI is a dead end
Guess The Sainsbury's Basics Blurb - by Us Vs Th3m
http://toys.usvsth3m.com/sainsburys-basics-blurb/"A little less bitter" is my favourite
Roundabout Appreciation Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_SocietyThe Roundabout Appreciation Society (UKRAS) is a group of people in the United Kingdom that discuss traffic roundabouts.
Mildreds | 45 Lexington Street W1F 9AN | Restaurants and cafés | Time Out London
http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/mildredsVeggie restaurant in Soho
How to make the perfect baba ganoush | Life and style | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/sep/25/how-to-make-perfect-baba-ganoushsounds good...perfect, even
Yubico/ykneo-openpgp
https://github.com/Yubico/ykneo-openpgpIncludes (apparently) complete instructions for app development also.
YubiKey NEO and OpenPGP
http://www.yubico.com/2012/12/yubikey-neo-openpgp/This tiny keychain thing has a Java implementation which runs OpenPGP. Should be possible to get it to sign things via NFC, in which case it will be work as a super-secure KeePassNFC fob.
Some covert wonder – The New Inquiry
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/s-a-o-b/some-covert-wonder/The fucking quinoa was on fire. (via mimi smartypants)
"A look at NuPIC: a self-learning AI engine" - part introduction, part tutorial, part request for help [28mins]
http://youtu.be/rY7GLyxINFYnonbeard 2013-09-16 09:10:04
intel software guard extensions
http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2013/readings/intel-sgx.pdfencrypted portions of address space. this in addition to the secure boot garbage. who uses this stuff?
The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture
http://riscv.org/open source architecture with implementation in chisel, which is a scala-based hdl.
Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird - (untitled)
http://danluu.github.io/blog/2013/09/07/why-hardware-development-is-hard/Some haskell and scala alternatives.
BBC News - Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23637225In a survey earlier this year, one-in-11 of people - some 9% - told a YouGov poll for the Huffington Post in the US that they would be prepared to have sex with a robot. That works out at over 25 million Americans - which could translate into a lot of robot sales.
The Mill: Split-stream encoding
http://ootbcomp.com/docs/encoding/mill_cpu_split-stream_encoding.pdfThey've gone full VLIW in this one, exposing huge amounts of architecture detail in ways that will certainly bite them later. You know you have to worry when your answer to "how do we manage multiple target addresses for two program counters" is to reverse the direction of one of the program counters.
Theorema Egregium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorema_Egregiumnonbeard 2013-08-17 01:11:09
Ricotta and spinach cannelloni - Tesco Real Food
http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/ricotta-and-spinach-cannelloni.htmlDitto
Spinach And Ricotta Cannelloni Recipe - Taste.com.au
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17107/spinach+and+ricotta+cannelloniTrying to find the one on the back of the barilla packet
Mobile meteorology: smartphone batteries will change the way we measure the weather - OpenSignal
http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/Really cool repurposing of the battery thermometer in android phones.
The Belt CPU Architecture | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138011HN discussion on the mill processor
Comments on the Mill CPU from OotB Computing
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~poss/posts/2013/08/01/mill-cpu/Like this dude I really like the generalisation of stack machines that the mill presents, and, like this dude, I find it very frustrating that the tricky parts aren't really covered. Yet.
c - Extracting bits with a single multiplication - Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14547087/extracting-bits-with-a-single-multiplication/14551792#14551792Pretty cool use of a theorem prover to come up with the correct mask and multiply to extract a set of bits.