a pint-sized #Earley #parser #smallisbeautiful
How did the Manchus read Chinese history when they were nomads? Were they carrying around copies of the Annals of Spring and Autumn on their horses?
is a polyhedron made of 120 identical scalene triangles. It's what you get if you cut up the faces of a Platonic dodecahedron with five geodesics each, or the faces of a Platonic icosahedron with three geodesics each. In fact, it's made of 15 great circles. Would be ideal for a Dymaxion map. #math
a low-waste caustic aluminum etching process patent from 1990. #patents
a galvanic aluminum etching process patent from the 1950s. #patents
artist Alison Copperheart reports success with electrolytic copper etching in salt water with a D-cell battery and alligator clips. Permanent market and sharpie paint pen didn’t stand up to the salt water, so she’s using “stop-out varnish”.
Interim OS is a bare-metal #Lisp interpreter for the #Raspberry-Pi.
My. Goldman Sachs, Barclays, R3, JP Morgan, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse, BBVA, State Street, and Commonwealth Bank of Australias are going to run their own #Bitcoin fork for settlement.