Human folly for 02017-03-07

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• Rellat jlamp second Submission (dcs.bbk.ac.uk):

  #PDF #paper on lattices of N-ary relations — natural-join is meet, an "inner" generalization of union is join, because that’s the lattice-dual of natural join. #math

• Blog (dadhacker.com):

  how transactional persistence worked on the #Apple Newton. #history

• Athletics (foddy.net):

  QWOP, sometimes known as the hardest of all #video-games. Originally Flash, now DHTML

• MCS (courses.csail.mit.edu):

  987-page #pdf of “Mathematics for Computer Science”, a cc-by-sa #math #ebook covering things like graphs, satisfiability, and linear recurrences

• Smaller code better code (sacrideo.us):

  Aaron Hsu and his team have written a 750-line #APL compiler for #GPGPU, in itself apparently, in six years. #compilers #Co-dfns

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion thread on (and mostly by) Aaron Hsu (arcfide) and his #GPGPU #APL compiler "Co-dfns". #compilers

• Citation (dl.acm.org):

  Aaron Hsu’s #paper on #GPGPU #APL #compilers, “The key to a data-parallel compiler” #Co-dfns

• (youtube.com):

  #video of Aaron Hsu talking about #compilers for two hours. #Co-dfns #GPGPU #APL

• Exponential growth devours and corrupts (m.signalvnoise.com):

  #DHH doesn’t like exponential growth. #sociology #startups

• Juan Garcia Mosqueda chamber design gallery founder denied entry USA (dezeen.com):

  Argentine Juan Garcia Mosqueda, “founder of the New York design gallery Chamber” and “a legal US resident for the last 10 years”, has been prohibited entry to #USA. #politics #human-rights #immigration

• (collections.infocollections.org):

  #ceramics #clay info from #ebook “Clay #materials for the self-reliant potter”. Seems like the actual recipes are missing, though.

• Glossary vitrification (digitalfire.com):

  different aspects of #ceramics vitrification: how to test porosity, etc. #materials

• Ball clay (digitalfire.com):

  #ceramics #materials: ball #clay

• A short history of passports (wanderlust.co.uk):

  a short #history of passports and #immigration