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

intel software guard extensions

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

The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture

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

Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird - (untitled)

Some haskell and scala alternatives.

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

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.

The Mill: Split-stream encoding

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.

Theorema Egregium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ricotta and spinach cannelloni - Tesco Real Food

Ditto

Spinach And Ricotta Cannelloni Recipe - Taste.com.au

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

Mobile meteorology: smartphone batteries will change the way we measure the weather - OpenSignal

Really cool repurposing of the battery thermometer in android phones.

The Belt CPU Architecture | Hacker News

HN discussion on the mill processor

Comments on the Mill CPU from OotB Computing

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.

Yubikey test vectors

c - Extracting bits with a single multiplication - Stack Overflow

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

microarchitectural optimisation

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.

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

It's beer mixed with tomato and clam juice.

Adaptive Pitch: Measure your pitch perception abilities

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

God as spider

Bunga bunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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!

Horace de Vere Cole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Draw text in OpenGL ES (Android) - Stack Overflow

joelt.io | How I do deployment

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

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

Fascinating stuff on the newly-discovered pandoraviruses

Biasia GARDA installation manual

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

Pathway Logic

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

The Camel by Ogden Nash - curiouser.co.uk

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

The Nicest Place on the Inernet

Cuuuuute

Smith–Waterman algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sequence alignment. Looks slow

GLOW - Complicated - Please Check Source

via hn

IMAPcopy

or something like it, to switch hosts.

To Be Of Use by Marge Piercy | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

BBC News - Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B

Green Spot (whiskey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Recommended by an actual Irishman!

CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers · GitHub

Bayesian methods for hackers

Eleanor R. Adair, Microwave Proponent, Dies at 86 - NYTimes.com

Dr. Adair was indisputably an innovator in studying microwave radiation, work she began in the mid-1970s while a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven. First with squirrel monkeys and then with human volunteers, she placed subjects in a chamber into which she released relatively high levels of microwaves for about 45 minutes, followed by a cool-down period. She focused on what impact the heat generated by microwaves might have — and she said she never found much more than perspiration. She said the monkeys and the people mostly enjoyed the experience.

Solskogen 2013 - 2013.07.12-14, Flateby, Norway

I think I should go to this

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

I kind of thing this sort of thing is obvious enough not to need allegories, but there you go.

Hairy ball theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A failed attempt to comb a hairy 3-ball (2-sphere), leaving an uncomfortable tuft at each pole.

The Scale of the Universe 2

Space is big. I mean, really big.

The Matasano Crypto Challenges | Hacker News

Octodad - Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus.

via liedra

absement | The Spectrum of Riemannium

Taking the derivative of each, we have: absement -> displacement -> velocity -> accelleration -> jerk -> jounce (or snap) -> crackle -> pop. Absement is the integral of displacement w.r.t. time, or how far away you've been from some reference point for how long.

See-through brain - great new imaging technique

It's easy. First, take a transparent brain...

The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel . . . after that it gets a little tricky.

This is awesome

Why don't you go where fashion sits?

Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Kernel Trick

via bryn. I had a mass of flabby inaccurate results until I learnt this one weird trick.

Git Koans / Steve Losh

Git sucks

Thatcher invented shitty ice cream

Fucking hilarious: "A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young Margaret Thatcher was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream, which allowed manufacturers to use less of the actual ingredients, thereby reducing costs. "

Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum | Science | guardian.co.uk

space tastes delicious.

ray marching