Human folly for 02016-01-08

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• Nbt2012 (lfe.mit.edu):

  “Commercializing Biomedical Research Through Securitization Techniques”, #pdf #paper on #finance engineering of a sort of for-profit university or research lab that securitizes the returns from the drugs it’s developing by selling different tranches of bonds with different levels of risk.

• Lisp800 (github.com):

  A #Lisp #interpreter in 800 lines of C, sort of. #smallisbeautiful

• Optimizing canvas (developer.mozilla.org):

  #introduction to improving #JS #performance with #canvas

• putImageData (developer.mozilla.org):

  the #JS call to blit image data from something resembling a TypedArray onto a #canvas. Doesn’t support scaling!

• Latest (khronos.org):

  the old #JS TypedArray #spec used in #canvas (at least on Firefox), now part of ECMAScript

• Forum (groups.google.com):

  #Chromium plans to implement #SIMDjs in its #JS interpreter, including support for TypedArrays of SIMD values.

• ECMAScript SIMD (github.com):

  The #spec and a polyfill for #SIMDjs being proposed for the #JS standard.

• How can I try out SIMD instructions in Chrome (stackoverflow.com):

  #Chromium doesn’t yet enable #SIMDjs by default in its #JS as of 2015-11-14.

• State of SIMD JS performance in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org):

  Details of #SIMDjs #performance in #Mozilla #JS

• Lisp500 (s2.org):

  an obfuscated #Lisp in some 500 lines of C

• Symbolic expressions can be automatically differentiated (h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk):

  #automatic-differentiation of symbolic expressions provides #algorithms for linear-time rather than quadratic-time symbolic differentiation