on the East German prison system and its quarter-million political prisoners #human-rights
interesting, the same David Wolpert who just extended Landauer’s bound to arbitrary computation proved an interesting theorem about the computational #complexity of general #optimization problems
more theorems about #complexity of #optimization
outline of #mpOTR #crypto #chat #protocols as of 2011.
Whisper’s TextSecure v2 has multiparty #crypto #chat. This talks about the design of its #protocols and covers #mpOTR.
“zur Förderung der Informationsfreiheit und eines Menschenrechts auf mindestens weltweite ungehinderte Kommunikation gegründet”: “established to promote freedom of information and a human right of at least global unhindered communication” #CCC
Better #security for #Qubes using a #MirageOS #unikernel for its firewall.
“local search” is the family of #optimization #algorithms that includes hill climbing, gradient descent, simulated annealing, and tabu search.
The general statement of #optimization.
Quick #pdf #introduction to #gradient-descent #optimization #algorithms.
A repository of papers about #optimization.
#pdf #introduction to local-search #optimization; 41 #slides. “If you want to pick one local search algorithm, learn hill-climbing with random restarts!” Defines “hill-climbing” in a way that excludes continuous state spaces, and always chooses the best neighbor, rather than picking any better neighbor.
an in-depth #paper on egg white (ovalbumin) gelation and similar heated-protein-system denaturing processes. Apparently alkalinity, high temperatures, and longer cooking times, all speed egg white coagulation as measured by turbidity, and increase gel strength. I was hoping for more information on other things that can increase gel strength, like maybe magnesium chloride (nigari) or something.
Lily Feng, well known on Twitter as @NotThelastMAybe, a pro-#GamerGate voice, committed #suicide at 19 on 2016-01-10. “Her actions prior to the collision indicated that she was deliberately trying to get hit by the train,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover said of the witnesses’ account. #public-shaming
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office’s news release about the #suicide of pro-#GamerGate activist Lilian Feng, aka @NotThelastMAybe. #public-shaming
The PKK is in open rebellion against #Turkey as well as fighting against #Daesh (which Ajansa Nûçeyan a Firatê refers to as “gangs”), killing thousands of Turkish soldiers and even more Daesh fighters. This is a sort of English republication of a release from the “People’s Defense Forces Press Office (HPG-BIM)”. #Kurds
#Turkey claims to have killed several thousand #Kurds fighting for the PKK in 2015, which in turn killed several hundred Turkish soldiers and police.
Overview of the military conflict between PKK #Kurds and the government of #Turkey.
Tim Cook from #Apple fighting for #crypto #human-rights.
global carbon dioxide emissions fell in 2015, perhaps due to slowing economic growth in China
#Twitter #censorship of Milo #Yiannopoulos based on “harassment”. “Twitter is not at all interested in making Twitter a “nicer” place, nor promoting more constructive discourse. Twitter is taking a side in the culture wars, and it has chosen that it will be the destination of choice for the ‘social justice warriors’ echo chamber.”
Milo #Yiannopoulos organizes a #public-shaming campaign to bully Randi Harper.
Another article on the #Ian-Murdock #suicide from Scott Morris via the Bay City News.
as of 2016-01-04, the Sexual and Reproductive Health Program (“Programa de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva de la Nación”) in #Argentina has been suspended by means of Executive Order (“Decreto”) 114/2016 by just-elected president #Macri, according to the Feminist Front of #Human-Rights Defenders (“Frente Feminista de Defensores de los DDHH”).
how to send and receive SMS on Linux using AT commands, a GSM modem, and smsd
platform-as-a-service (#PaaS) vendors had a hard time in 2015. But this is cloud hosting companies like Heroku, not mobile-backend-as-a-service companies like Parse.
The University of Southern California asks its students how many times they’ve had sex and with how many different people in the past three months, or their registration will be “held” (suspended, I suppose). ...as part of Title IX‽