Human folly for 02015-12-03

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• Makani (jacquesmattheij.com):

  #jacquesm’s critique of Google’s #Makani wind #energy harvesting project.

• A bad citizen in javaland (darrenhobbs.com):

  surreal and hilarious metaphorical explanation of Java programming.

• Write ocaml, run on nodejs (hyegar.com):

  Edgar Aroutiounian wrote a compiler from #OCaml to #JS for node.js. #compilers

• Type 2 diabetes can be cured through weight loss newcastle University finds (telegraph.co.uk):

  losing a gram of fat from your pancreas through caloric restriction can eliminate type 2 #diabetes? This seems dubious to me; don’t type-2 diabetics have high insulin levels that their non-pancreas cells are just insensitive to? #medicine

• (youtube.com):

  #video for CHI 2015 (#UX) best paper on proprioceptive interaction by electrical stimulation of muscles, called “Pose-IO”. It moves your body by electrically shocking you.

• (vimeo.com):

  Adam Kumpf #video of Teague Labs’s one-handed chording keyboard #UX on an Android multitouch tablet screen.

• 20150314 optimizing (blog.cr.yp.to):

  “the death of optimizing #compilers” #djb

• Jdm15923A (journal.sjdm.org):

  #paper “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” #psychology