#video by Micah Elizabeth Scott on #reverse-engineering a Wacom tablet by glitching its power rail to get its firmware
#Content-addressable #JS frameworks via the new SRI “#subresource-integrity” feature (<script integrity="sha-...">). “explores why content addressable caching is difficult on the Web platform, and how #browsers might sidestep these difficulties” such as timing leaks. Pretty sad, but it does suggest some feasible solutions that sound safe. #security
#subresource-integrity in #browsers, originating in 2015-08-24. Apparently supported in Chromium, Iceweasel, and Opera so far, but not Safari.
#physics #PDF #paper by John D. Norton questioning #Landauer’s principle. #reversible #computability
“Fundamental limits of energy dissipation in charge-based computing” #paper on #Landauer’s principle reporting experimental results that show that #reversible electrical #hardware can dissipate sub-Landauer quantities of energy. #computability
from 2012: “Computing’s Power Limit Demonstrated.” or “#Landauer limit demonstrated” by Eric Lutz confining 2-μm glass beads in water with optical tweezers, published in nature. #reversible #computability
2015 article on #Landauer’s Principle with an overview of the history. #reversible #computability
#emulation of the Datamath #calculator (running on the 4-bit TMS0800 CPU #hardware with a ROM of 320 11-bit words) from 1974 in #JS, with live disassembly from the patent (US 3,934,233), and a DHTML register display.
#JS #emulation of the crappy Sinclair Radionics #calculator “Sinclair Scientific”, which ran on the same TMS0800 four-function calculator chip #hardware as the TI Datamath.
Francis Bally’s 1823-11-28 letter to Astronomische Nachrichten describing Babbage’s Difference Engine in some detail. #hardware #history
discussion thread on John Clark’s Eureka #hardware from 1845 for generating Latin hexameter verse. He retired on the proceeds of exhibiting it and then died in 1853. Babbage wrote about him and may have known him. #history
nickpsecurity suggests that #autism makes hackers posthuman slans.
TkSQLite is a #database GUI for #SQLite written in Tcl/Tk; grid views and SQL access but no forms
#SQLite Studio is a #database GUI for SQLite with a SQL IDE with autocomplete and on-the-fly syntax checking, grid view, and data generation.
Generating faces with deconvolution #neural-networks, supporting fairly realistic face interpolation. Lots of fun pictures from different kinds of #optimization #algorithms.
The Beothuk tribe died out on Newfoundland on 1829-06-06, having numbered only a few hundred when John Cabot arrived, but a thousand years ago, maybe one or a few of them went to #Iceland with Leif Eriksson’s followers, because a new mitochondrial DNA variant C1e of the North American haplogroup C1 is found today among Icelanders. #history #genetics
on #autism and #genetics: de novo duplications and deletions in Human Accelerated Regions are much more common among autistic children.
A #database browser for #SQLite aimed at both developers and end users.
Brian Krebs, whose site suffered #censorship by #DDoS using #security problems in IP cameras and DVRs, talks about it
ARChon and chromeos-apk let you run #Android apps under #Chromium (?) on Ubuntu
on Brian Krebs #DDoS #censorship. “The dystopian cyberpunk future is here. The scary thing about this attack is that a journalist had his website shut down by someone who didn’t like the content.”
how to make #Android apps that draw using #OpenGL ES on an EGLSurface, either an off-screen pbuffer or a window (Surface, SurfaceHolder, SurfaceTexture, or SurfaceView), or using ANativeWindow in C or C++.
Pieter #Hintjens wrote this #ebook about the future (information, economics, culture, etc.) that he is about to miss out on by dying, probably this week. "Culture and Empire", it’s called.
A #paper about faking super-resolution microscopy using texture synthesis
on how the #JS ecosystem is intimidating and clumsy
An anthropologist writes about how many jobs exist to keep people busy
Stack Overflow decline discussion thread
#paper on #DCGANs (variety “introspective adversarial networks”) for photo editing. #deep-learning #neural-networks #GANs #machine-learning
William Jones’s #PLL #DSP IPython notebook for his floppy disk controller.
HaikuOS uses vector icons using a very compact encoding.