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

Home Page - PhytoTechnology

http://www.phytotechlab.com/

Ships to residential (but in the US)

nonbeard 2013-03-08 19:34:48

Integrated DNA Technologies - Home

http://eu.idtdna.com/site

primers

nonbeard 2013-03-08 19:29:48

ValueGene

http://www.valuegene.com/

primers

nonbeard 2013-03-08 19:29:39

Open Biotechnology - Making biotech open source and tearing down barriers to science

http://www.openbiotech.com/

DIY Taq?

nonbeard 2013-03-08 19:28:28

Meetings - The Open Source Brain repository - Open Source Brain

http://www.opensourcebrain.org/projects/osb/wiki/Meetings
nonbeard 2013-03-08 14:51:09

List of sexually active popes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

My god but do I love Wikipedia.

nonbeard 2013-02-26 00:39:59

Freeman on the land - RationalWiki

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land

warrrgarbl via bryn

nonbeard 2013-02-20 11:32:59

With evolved brains, robots creep closer to animal-like learning | KurzweilAI

http://www.kurzweilai.net/with-evolved-brains-robots-creep-closer-to-animal-like-learning

I love watching virtual things evolve. This group then put their code inside a real robot, which is super cool -- but it needs stickier feet!

nonbeard 2013-02-17 22:22:04

An introduction to biocomputing

http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~thalheim/biocomputing.pdf

via diybio list

nonbeard 2013-02-06 12:13:24

Full, uncensored interview with the hatchet wielding Hitchhiker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckfBGdZoR_0
nonbeard 2013-02-03 22:26:57

Linguistic competence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Chomsky: "Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly..." Reminds me of the spherical horses moving in simple harmonic motion

nonbeard 2013-01-28 16:30:52

Status-Q » Blog Archive » King and Queen

http://www.statusq.org/archives/2013/01/18/4761/

The weather this morning, as photographed by someone good.

nonbeard 2013-01-18 21:26:31

Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did | Hacker News

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048132

I'm not suicidal but the discussion and talk of CBT is interesting.

nonbeard 2013-01-12 19:00:00

How to create missing subversion tmp files

http://railsquestions.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/how-to-create-missing-subversion-tmp.html

It's 2013, and software still gives errors like this: $ svn update Your '.svn/tmp' directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn cleanup' and try again. $ svn cleanup Your '.svn/tmp' directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn cleanup' and try again. "Fiiish!" "Today's fish is Trout a la Creme. Enjoy your meal!"

nonbeard 2013-01-10 11:13:38

Piano teacher?

http://www.reddit.com/r/cambridge/comments/164nz5/piano_teacher/
nonbeard 2013-01-08 01:03:08

YotaPhone: A New Archetype

http://www.yotaphone.com/

LCD on the front, e-ink on the back. Kind of like the mullet

nonbeard 2013-01-06 12:09:09

FAILURE NOTICE by Aaron Stern

http://www.swinkmag.com/archive/aaronstern.html

Hi alexj@hottype.com. This is the automated qmail-send program [68.142.199.112], at yahoo.com. Okay, so maybe I haven’t been completely upfront with you here. It isn’t just your address that is unresolvable. If only it were that simple. It’s just that joan@pja.com is looking for somebody with certain core attributes.

nonbeard 2013-01-05 21:58:43

Please explain Support Vector Machines (SVM) like I am a 5 year old.

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/15zrpp/please_explain_support_vector_machines_svm_like_i/
nonbeard 2013-01-05 11:52:35

What is it about the Leopard's pattern that makes it appear on Leopards and on Leopard Whiprays? [photos inside]

http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~dbentil/leopard_spots.pdf
nonbeard 2013-01-03 00:03:14