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

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

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/09/04
nonbeard 2013-06-06 21:08:56

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22782620
nonbeard 2013-06-06 19:13:27

Green Spot (whiskey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Spot_%28whiskey%29

Recommended by an actual Irishman!

nonbeard 2013-06-04 13:31:36

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

https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers

Bayesian methods for hackers

nonbeard 2013-06-04 08:58:00

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

http://wap.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/science/eleanor-r-adair-microwave-safety-researcher-dies-at-86.html?from=obituaries

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.

nonbeard 2013-05-18 20:36:32

Solskogen 2013 - 2013.07.12-14, Flateby, Norway

http://www.solskogen.no/

I think I should go to this

nonbeard 2013-05-18 17:47:46

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

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

nonbeard 2013-05-12 17:28:02

Hairy ball theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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

nonbeard 2013-05-10 10:16:42

The Scale of the Universe 2

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Space is big. I mean, really big.

nonbeard 2013-04-24 19:24:11

The Matasano Crypto Challenges | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574074
nonbeard 2013-04-20 12:51:19

Octodad - Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus.

http://www.octodadgame.com/

via liedra

nonbeard 2013-04-14 15:42:21

absement | The Spectrum of Riemannium

http://thespectrumofriemannium.wordpress.com/tag/absement/

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.

nonbeard 2013-04-14 13:29:17

See-through brain - great new imaging technique

http://www.reddit.com/r/neuro/comments/1c3fpn/seethrough_brain_great_new_imaging_technique/

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

nonbeard 2013-04-11 00:25:09

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

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/mario.pdf

This is awesome

nonbeard 2013-04-10 23:00:57

Why don't you go where fashion sits?

http://putintheritzon.ytmnd.com/
nonbeard 2013-04-09 22:06:54

Find a separating hyperplane with this One Weird Kernel Trick

http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/

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

nonbeard 2013-04-09 20:10:39

Git Koans / Steve Losh

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

Git sucks

nonbeard 2013-04-08 18:20:06

Thatcher invented shitty ice cream

http://www.mrwhippyicecream.co.uk/the-history-of-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. "

nonbeard 2013-04-08 18:05:55

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology

space tastes delicious.

nonbeard 2013-04-06 21:20:54

ray marching

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi37/hugi%2037%20-%20coding%20adok%20on%20ray%20casting,%20ray%20tracing,%20ray%20marching%20and%20the%20like.htm
nonbeard 2013-04-06 12:46:50

wholemeal: No changes - did you forget to use 'git add'?

http://wholemeal.co.nz/blog/2010/06/11/no-changes-did-you-forget-to-use-git-add/

A bug in git: if you've added a version which is just origin's version then it's quite obvious that you want origin's version, but instead git gives a completely incomprehensible error message.

nonbeard 2013-04-02 16:45:36

Cheap train tickets, get UK train times & fares | thetrainline

http://www.thetrainline.com/

Down to £6 single to Liverpool Street

nonbeard 2013-03-31 23:58:29

The Gate Restaurant - Vegetarian restaurant Hammersmith, best vegetarian food London West London

http://thegaterestaurants.com/islington-contact.php?islington=i-contact

Vegetables place in Angel

nonbeard 2013-03-30 22:09:41

Simple Serial Communications With AVR Libc

http://www.appelsiini.net/2011/simple-usart-with-avr-libc
nonbeard 2013-03-24 14:58:10

Forests and Chases of England and Wales: A Glossary

http://info.sjc.ox.ac.uk/forests/glossary.htm
nonbeard 2013-03-22 02:04:50

Anders Riggelsen - Visual glBlendFunc and glBlendEquation Tool

http://www.andersriggelsen.dk/glblendfunc.php

Yes

nonbeard 2013-03-21 12:09:22

Almond Milk - The Sweetest Crumb

http://www.thesweetestcrumb.com/2013/03/almond-milk/

Enjoy your almond milk!

nonbeard 2013-03-14 00:46:17

Opinel Mushroom Knife With Brush: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Opinel-Mushroom-Knife-With-Brush/dp/B000KIMSG6

Cutie.

nonbeard 2013-03-14 00:45:24

(DIY) inkjet microarrayer manual (POSAM)

http://www.bioinformatics.org/pogo/POSAM_Man_Ch1_Assembly_v1-2_040601.pdf

"We all know that, despite their inherent problems, microarrays have become an important tool in any lab that wants to do cutting edge molecular biology. If you didn't think that the technology was important, you wouldn't be reading this, so we'll will try to keep the rhetoric to a minimum and just tell you what you need to know..."

nonbeard 2013-03-12 16:37:26

Thermocycler

https://www.manylabs.org/docs/project/thermocycler/

DIY thermocycler. Looks good.

nonbeard 2013-03-12 15:41:18

why canonical created mir

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13nxl4xepf5wppwa04cexyr0q35chahgzk0k

This is an excellent outline of how inexperienced the mir developers are, and how mir is (therefore, probably) a bad idea. Justifications go from the outright daft (didn't want to write tests) to the poorly-justified (eg the requirement for server-side buffers stated with no reasoning, let alone any evidence that alternatives, or an implementation in Weston, had been seriously considered). NIH at its finest.

nonbeard 2013-03-12 13:54:21

Flarf

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/syllabi/readings/flarf.html

Yeah, mm-hmm, it's true big birds make big doo!

nonbeard 2013-03-10 21:09:49

Finnish slang

http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Finnish/1.html

Oh spring of cunts and cold spell of pricks!

nonbeard 2013-03-10 18:42:09

woz on moderation

http://yeonhoyoon.tumblr.com/post/44682321591/letter-from-steve-wozniak-to-a-high-school-student-in
nonbeard 2013-03-10 18:42:08