PEG #parsing #EDSL in Red, Nenad Rakocevic’s 3-clause BSD-licensed homoiconic language based on Carl Sassenrath’s REBOL
How a child pornography ring mostly avoided being arrested even after being thoroughly penetrated by the FBI
The quantitative analogy between #thermodynamic heat transfer by heat conduction and resistive electrical circuits (although thermal insulators and conductors differ only by three orders of magnitude in conductivity rather than 20)
Quantitative analogies between #mechanical systems (especially including #acoustic systems) and electrical systems.
more about quantitative analogies between #mechanical (and #acoustic) and electrical systems.
a third Wiki page about quantitative analogies between #mechanical (in this case #hydraulic) systems and electrical systems.
Whoa, #thermodynamic variables come in "conjugate pairs" whose product is an energy or a power.
the deepest-penetrating penetrating bomb is this 14-tonne MOP, which penetrates a bit over 60 m, presumably in soil. #weaponry
“it’s 2016 and there’s killer robots with C-4 on the streets, 3-D printed sea-slug drones in the water, the drinking water is poisoned, school is a prison pipeline” about how a friend of theirs got their Twitter account stolen by some teenage boy and then persuaded him to give it back. #theft
translating poetry to “architecture” with Maya 3D.
how to do #sentiment-analysis for Twitter in Python (from 2009 when that was the hot thing) #linguistics
how to do #sentiment-analysis for Twitter in Python with NLTK (from 2012) #linguistics
Praat is a GPL #phonetics analysis system; eSpeak #speech-synthesis is based on it. #linguistics
Multilinear interpolation is a generalization of linear interpolation. #math
discussion thread on the failed #Turkey coup
An optimized integer division library, using multiplication and bitshifts, in part because the #SSE #ISA has no division instruction (like the Cray vector operations before it). #algorithms
Until 1977, London had a #Hydraulic Power Company which provided (up to) 5.2 MW of 800psi (5.5MPa) water to power machinery throughout the city; from 1871 to 1923 it was pumped by coal-fired steam engines, and later by electrical pumps. #history
British journalist Milo #Yiannopoulos got banned from Twitter after ragging on (black, female, US, Ghostbusters star) comedian Leslie Jones, while partying at the US Republican Convention that was about to nominate Donald Trump
#Ethereum completed its hard fork with 5.5% of the Ether voting due to the #DAO catastrophe