Violet Blue, commenting on the news that #Facebook uses #phone #geolocation information to suggest “friends,” says, “Seriously, I’ve had enough reporters ask me, freaked out, why Facebook is recommending their protected sources. Suck it up & stop using it.”
2014 paper on #kinematics based #generative design of animatronic characters by #optimization of #linkages, research from #Disney
#video on #kinematics based #generative design of animatronic characters by #optimization of #linkages, research from #Disney
the earlier 2013 research on #kinematics based #generative design of animatronic characters by #optimization of #linkages by #Disney
“on disrespect in romantic #relationships” by Ozy
“Quotes from #MRAs that will make you rethink trusting feminists”, by Ozy. These are intended to be things that feminists have quoted MRAs as saying; each one is carefully dissected to see if it’s real, and many are. Mostly they make me not want to trust MRAs, but that’s hardly surprising. #feminism
“Quotes from feminists that will make you rethink trusting [#MRAs]” by Ozy. These are things that MRAs have quoted feminists as saying, often deceptively; as expected, this mostly makes me not want to trust MRAs. The post is long and sad and I didn’t finish reading it. #feminism
Brewster calculates, “A single Decentralized Web Server can serve a million of websites to 4 million users and cost $14,000.” This is based on how the Internet Archive pays US$14000 for its current web servers: 24 cores, 192GB RAM, 36 spinning-rust drives totaling 250TB, with two gigabits of connectivity, all in 4U. Brewster here is suggesting that ISPs and so on could host such “supernodes” in the service of #decentralization of the web. He suggests that such a machine can host about five billion 50-kilobyte files (“web objects”) or about a million web sites and answer more than 100k requests per second, or maybe over a million, although serving only 1800 files per second from the spinning rust. He estimates that you’d need about one such server per four million users (!!!)
#SBCL is a good way to play around with coding things in #asm; in this case Paul Khuong experimented with doing some simple register allocation to compile stack-machine instructions to AMD64 instructions. Full #Lisp source provided in the article.
This is a retired professor in France who does scientific investigations of weird phenomena like ball lightning, Marian apparitions, and UFOs.
“Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning” #physics
discussion thread largely about how to learn about #machine-learning
Ken #Shirriff writing “hello world” in Bravo in #BCPL in Xerox Alto #emulation with Salto; he’s working on restoring an Alto for Y Combinator.
#JWZ blogpost about the “#strandbeest bicycle” using #Jansen-linkage #linkages rather than a rear wheel.
The March 2016 #Eve Developer Diary, on #cp4e. Apparently now they have versions called “WikiEve” and “GridEve” and a #NLP #UX? Lots of pretty #typography in their screenshots.
discussion thread about the March 2016 #Eve Developer Diary. Some interaction with Corey Montella, one of the authors. #toread
The March 2016 #Eve Developer Diary part 2 on #cp4e. They were basing it on a triple store (“(Entity, Attribute, Value)”) but now they’re adding “bags” for visibility control, “ticks” that are creation timestamps on the augmented triples, and “users”. They’re switching from a TypeScript implementation to a new Clojure implementation.
#pdf #paper on “Diffraction-unlimited imaging: from pretty pictures to hard numbers”. Advances in #microscopy allowing optical imaging at nanometer scale, i.e. deep subwavelength: “optical sub-diffraction microscopy”.