Human folly for 02015-12-05

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• Why did seventeenth century europeans (resobscura.blogspot.com.ar):

  eat mummies. They ate mummies. As an anti-inflammatory, largely.

• Blog:108 (hintjens.com):

  "Codes of Misconduct": how to prevent harassment at conferences, by Pieter Hintjens, the author of The Psychopath Code.

• Blog: psychopaths (hintjens.com):

  Pieter #Hintjens wrote this #ebook on #psychopaths, "The Psychopath Code", CC-BY-SA. #psychology

• Heres how managers can be replaced by software (hbr.org):

  replacing managers by software using the Turker economy (oDesk, MTurk, etc.)

• How do I achieve the theoretical maximum of 4 flops per cycle (stackoverflow.com):

  how to get theoretical max #performance of 4 flops per cycle with #SSE intrinsics: manual loop unrolling and careful interleaving of multiplies and adds, at least for pre-#FMA processors.

• (pstoedit.net):

  is free software to convert #PostScript to #DXF, for example for #laser-cutter files. Its DXF output is pretty bad, though; a stroked closed rectangle gets turned into four thin filled rectangles with overlapping ends (the edges of the rectangle).