The Analogical Instinct: The Analogical Instinct and the One Cortical Algorithm

http://theanalogicalinstinct.blogspot.sk/2013/10/the-analogical-instinct-and-one.html

But 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.

nonbeard 2013-10-25 02:06:03

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."

nonbeard 2013-10-24 19:09:48

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-heroin

via mind hacks

nonbeard 2013-10-23 15:08:40

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/full

Oceanic boundlessness. Via mind hacks

nonbeard 2013-10-23 14:53:24

Behind the Name: Random Name Generator

http://www.behindthename.com/random/

Awesome! Dazhdbog Alban Košar.

nonbeard 2013-10-18 18:12:06

three.js css3d - periodic table

http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodictable/

nifty.

nonbeard 2013-10-17 21:49:26

BGA and QFP at Home 1 - A Practical Guide.

http://www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/499/fpga-prototyping-at-home-1-a-practical-guide

Mostly 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.

nonbeard 2013-10-15 16:43:31

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.

nonbeard 2013-10-14 17:21:36

On Seeing A's and Seeing As

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/hofstadter.html

Hofstadter: The logic-based format approach to AI is a dead end

nonbeard 2013-10-07 21:29:33

Brainwallet - Bitcoin

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Brainwallet

Nifty.

nonbeard 2013-10-07 20:51:05

Guess The Sainsbury's Basics Blurb - by Us Vs Th3m

http://toys.usvsth3m.com/sainsburys-basics-blurb/

"A little less bitter" is my favourite

nonbeard 2013-10-06 00:10:50

Roundabout Appreciation Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

The Roundabout Appreciation Society (UKRAS) is a group of people in the United Kingdom that discuss traffic roundabouts.

nonbeard 2013-10-04 23:17:26

Mildreds | 45 Lexington Street W1F 9AN | Restaurants and cafés | Time Out London

http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/mildreds

Veggie restaurant in Soho

nonbeard 2013-10-02 21:56:49

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-ganoush

sounds good...perfect, even

nonbeard 2013-09-28 18:09:27

Yubico/ykneo-openpgp

https://github.com/Yubico/ykneo-openpgp

Includes (apparently) complete instructions for app development also.

nonbeard 2013-09-25 00:00:21

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.

nonbeard 2013-09-24 23:55:07

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)

nonbeard 2013-09-19 20:16:51

"A look at NuPIC: a self-learning AI engine" - part introduction, part tutorial, part request for help [28mins]

http://youtu.be/rY7GLyxINFY
nonbeard 2013-09-16 09:10:04

intel software guard extensions

http://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2013/readings/intel-sgx.pdf

encrypted portions of address space. this in addition to the secure boot garbage. who uses this stuff?

nonbeard 2013-09-09 09:05:51

The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

http://riscv.org/

open source architecture with implementation in chisel, which is a scala-based hdl.

nonbeard 2013-09-08 18:33:34

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.

nonbeard 2013-09-08 08:25:58

BBC News - Will we ever want to have sex with robots?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23637225

In 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.

nonbeard 2013-08-26 09:34:04

The Mill: Split-stream encoding

http://ootbcomp.com/docs/encoding/mill_cpu_split-stream_encoding.pdf

They'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.

nonbeard 2013-08-25 18:26:18

Theorema Egregium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorema_Egregium
nonbeard 2013-08-17 01:11:09

Ricotta and spinach cannelloni - Tesco Real Food

http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/ricotta-and-spinach-cannelloni.html

Ditto

nonbeard 2013-08-16 11:47:36

Spinach And Ricotta Cannelloni Recipe - Taste.com.au

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17107/spinach+and+ricotta+cannelloni

Trying to find the one on the back of the barilla packet

nonbeard 2013-08-16 11:47:28

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.

nonbeard 2013-08-13 18:13:39

The Belt CPU Architecture | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138011

HN discussion on the mill processor

nonbeard 2013-08-04 22:59:27

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.

nonbeard 2013-08-04 22:50:59

Yubikey test vectors

http://forum.yubico.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=45
nonbeard 2013-08-01 23:01:57

c - Extracting bits with a single multiplication - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14547087/extracting-bits-with-a-single-multiplication/14551792#14551792

Pretty cool use of a theorem prover to come up with the correct mask and multiply to extract a set of bits.

nonbeard 2013-07-31 11:10:44

microarchitectural optimisation

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/37077.pdf

they don't do anything particularly clever, but it's a great paper because it is very readable and thorough; they produce some impressive speed-ups; and their code is open source.

nonbeard 2013-07-28 18:45:20

Budweiser & Clamato Chelada - Anheuser-Busch - Saint Louis, MO - BeerAdvocate

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/37389

It's beer mixed with tomato and clam juice.

nonbeard 2013-07-27 12:31:01

Adaptive Pitch: Measure your pitch perception abilities

http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/
nonbeard 2013-07-24 22:33:19

Through a Glass Darkly (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly_(film)

God as spider

nonbeard 2013-07-20 20:11:04

Bunga bunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

In 1910 a group of English friends, including Virginia Woolf and her brother Adrian Stephen, pretending to be the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage obtained permission to visit HMS Dreadnought in what became known as the Dreadnought hoax. Each time the Commander showed them a marvel of the ship, they murmured the phrase bunga, bunga!

nonbeard 2013-07-20 14:15:13

Horace de Vere Cole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Cole once hosted a party in which the attendees discovered that they all had the word "bottom" in their surname. The prankster at one point gave theatre tickets to each of his bald friends, strategically placing them so that their heads spelled out an expletive when viewed from the balcony. On his honeymoon in Italy in 1919, Cole dropped horse manure onto Venice's Piazza San Marco — a city with no horses and could be reached only by boat.

nonbeard 2013-07-20 14:09:16

Draw text in OpenGL ES (Android) - Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1339136/draw-text-in-opengl-es-android
nonbeard 2013-07-20 12:44:34

joelt.io | How I do deployment

http://joelt.io/entries/how-i-do-deployment

Deploying with Git, but mostly bookmarked because I really like the guy's site design.

nonbeard 2013-07-20 00:40:49

Biggest Virus Yet Found, May Be Fourth Domain of Life?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130718-viruses-pandoraviruses-science-biology-evolution/

Fascinating stuff on the newly-discovered pandoraviruses

nonbeard 2013-07-19 22:16:51

Biasia GARDA installation manual

http://www.biasi.co.uk/images/manuals/GARDA/INSTALLATION_USER/5006%20EDITION.pdf

Clare's combi boiler is a Biasi Garda M90F 24S or similar, which requires being switched off and on again after repressurisation.

nonbeard 2013-07-19 11:06:50

Pathway Logic

http://pl.csl.sri.com/

Pathway Logic is an approach to modeling biological entities and processes based on a simple but powerful logic called rewriting logic.

nonbeard 2013-07-16 09:03:54

The Camel by Ogden Nash - curiouser.co.uk

http://www.curiouser.co.uk/poems/camel.htm

Goddamnit, Ogden Nash -- the dromedary (one hump) *is* a camel. The other type of camel is Bactrian (two humps).

nonbeard 2013-07-15 17:30:46

The Nicest Place on the Inernet

http://thenicestplaceontheinter.net/

Cuuuuute

nonbeard 2013-07-07 21:00:33

Smith–Waterman algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith-Waterman_algorithm

Sequence alignment. Looks slow

nonbeard 2013-06-16 12:40:36

GLOW - Complicated - Please Check Source

http://empaempa.github.io/GLOW/examples/complicated/

via hn

nonbeard 2013-06-12 13:57:53

IMAPcopy

http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html

or something like it, to switch hosts.

nonbeard 2013-06-11 10:20:25

nonbeard 2013-06-04 13:31:36