Human folly for 02017-03-11

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• Why middle East fell behind (jaredcrubin.com):

  #economics #history #to-read of #Asia-Minor

• Frit (digitalfire.com):

  frits: #glass powder #materials for #ceramics

• Spigot (cs.ox.ac.uk):

  #math #paper #PDF on “unbounded spigot #algorithms” for digits of π

• 50%20Years%20Of%20Apl%20Datatypes (sudleyplace.com):

  #PDF on #APL #history and data types: when booleans were added, nested arrays, arithmetic-progression arrays, complexes, hypercomplexes, and multiprecision numbers.

• (github.com):

  #C in 4 functions in like 527 LoC (with a stack bytecode interpreter) #smallisbeautiful #compilers #toread

• Read (leanpub.com):

  #Selfie #self-sustaining system #ebook

• Introduction (github.com):

  #Selfie #self-sustaining system #ebook on Github (along with the source code)

• How Peter thiels Palantir helped the NSA spy on the whole world (theintercept.com):

  Biddle’s #Palantir article on #Thiel and #USA spying. #privacy #human-rights

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion thread on the new proof that the #Rust type system is Turing-complete. #langsec

• Tarpit rs (github.com):

  Smallfuck implemented in the #Rust type system, showing that it’s Turing-complete. #langsec

• Rusttypesystemturingcomplete (sdleffler.github.io):

  Blog post announcing the discovery that #Rust’s type system is Turing-complete. #langsec

• (sec.gov):

  #PDF decision from the SEC rejecting the Winklevoss #Bitcoin ETF (“ETP”?)

• (theatlantic.com):

  The Atlantic graduates from pimping Scientology to pimping Gelernter

• What makes a camgirl successful survey results (aellagirl.com):

  Survey results on successful camgirl #prostitution practices; kind of poorly presented

• Ten questions and answers about americas big government (brookings.edu):

  how the #USA government has expanded over the last six decades — mostly through contractors

• Reclaim your computer (fare.tunes.org):

  Faré on #security

• Curvas de temperatura (elbarroyyo.blogspot.com.ar):

  Temperature curves for #ceramics

• Desirable difficulties in the classroom (psychologyinaction.org):

  #psychology of #education: Bjork’s "desirable difficulties" (although this includes the debunked unreadable-font experiment, I guess in 2011 it was still “in press”)

• Desirable difficulties in math teaching (psychologyinaction.org):

  #spaced-practice in math #education, shuffled formats, etc. #desirable-difficulties #psychology

• What makes great teaching final (suttontrust.com):

  #pdf on empirical information about #education #psychology success factors: content knowledge, quality of instruction, classroom climate (constantly demanding more), etc. Seems terribly preliminary to me for the grandiose title.

• The effects of overlearning and distributed practice on the retention of mathematics knowledge (gmarks.org):

  #education #psychology #paper on (independently) #spaced-practice and overlearning of math

• Pmc4116985 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  Pavlov’s 1927 #psychology paper was reprinted in Annals of Neuroscience in 2010, leading to people citing it as “Pavlov (2010)”.

• Pmc3782739 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  #spaced-practice #psychology #paper “Making long-term memories in minutes” #toread

• Ask the cognitive Scientist retrieval practice (digitalpromise.org):

  #education #psychology #interview on “retrieval practice”

• Carpenter et al 2012epr (uweb.cas.usf.edu):

  a 2012 #review #paper #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology

• Carpenter 2014 science of learning (public.psych.iastate.edu):

  a 2014 #ebook #chapter #pdf on #spaced-practice #toread #education #psychology

• Kang(2016,Pibbs) (dartmouth.edu):

  short #pdf #paperon #spaced-practice #education #psychology

• EM (tack.sourceforge.net):

  #PDF of Tanenbaum (et al)’s 1983 #paper on “a machine architecture for use with block-structured languages” called EM; really more of an UNCOL than a machine #ISA. #compilers #toread

• How the US marshalls Bureau of prisons are trying US (huffingtonpost.com):

  Martin Gottesfeld writes about his hunger strike

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  GNU Social, implemented by Mastodon among others, is a merger of StatusNet (Laconica, Identi.ca, pump.io) and Free Social, and is also “the Google Buzz protocol stack” and OStatus. #toread

• Nips2016 (blog.evjang.com):

  Trip report to NIPS 2016 (Neural Information Processing Systems, i.e. #neural-networks) in December. Sections on GANs, deep reinforcement learning, Bayesian deep learning. #machine-learning

• 2016 12 04 NIPS (iangoodfellow.com):

  #PDF of the tutorial slides on #GANs #neural-networks

• Article (journals.plos.org):

  #Statistics #math #paper #toread on a very generic explanation for Zipf’s law

• A different argument against universal BASIC (lesswrong.com):

  chaosmage is opposed to #UBI because it should make the state less beholden to its citizenry. #politics

• Engineer diplomat (benjaminrosshoffman.com):

  a proposal that interesting group conversations don’t happen in most groups because intense questioning is perceived by others as a social attack. “The conversation, to be polite, sociable, and charming, is kept superficial.” #sociology #psychology

• A review of cryonicsbrain preservation in (lesswrong.com):

  review of the state of #cryonics in 2016

• Making intentions concrete triggeraction planning (lesswrong.com):

  “trigger-action planning” or “implementation intentions” as a technique for “making intentions concrete”. #psychology #akrasia

• Everything about learning (wired.com):

  #education #psychologybased on a Bjork interview

• Ditch the 10000 hour rule why malcolm gladwells famous advice falls short (salon.com):

  popularized #education #psychology recommendations: #spaced-practice, interleaved practice, and varied practice.

• Objects larger than PTRDIFF Max bytes (trust-in-soft.com):

  #C #compilers bugs on objects bigger than PTRDIFF_MAX

• Advent%20Of%20Code (nbviewer.jupyter.org):

  #Norvig’s Advent-of-Code solutions

• Things in light poetry series (thingsinlight.blogspot.com.ar):

  #poem “For Pola Negri Infused Wth Hope And Dreams”

• Design for SLM topology optimisation of metallic structural nodes in architecture applications (insidemetaladditivemanufacturing.com):

  introduction to #topology-optimization with applications to selective laser melting (SLM) #3D-printing

• (gist.github.com):

  an imperative #Quickort in #Haskell: 14 lines of code

• Brazil spending cap austerity (vox.com):

  Michel Temer’s constitutional amendment freezes #Brazil federal government spending for two decades

• Tir Coolerado (web.archive.org):

  DoE #PDF on “Coolerado” #evaporative cooler, which evaporates water in a secondary airstream. #HVAC

• OpenFlexure microscope (github.com):

  #flexure #microscope #hardware for printing in plastic to get submicron stage positioning

• Article76 (totalmateria.com):

  #Aluminum #powder-metallurgy produces parts with included amorphous aluminum oxide, providing higher strength and dramatically higher creep resistance than regular aluminum; hydrogen porosity is a danger.

• (aip.scitation.org):

  #flexure #microscope #hardware #paper #toread

• Ssc predicts (arbital.com):

  #prediction-markets on Scott Alexander’s 2017 forecasts

• (kysanelectronics.com):

  #PDF catalog of small #motors from Kysan, with Mabuchi-compatible part numbering conveniently included.

• Helical (zyvex.com):

  Merkle and Drexler’s 1992 (or maybe 1996) #paper on #reversible logic #hardware with electrons confined to helical paths. #nanotech

• Struct (piston.rs):

  #JPEG decoder library in #Rust, from Piston’s “image” crate, implements the ImageDecoder trait

• JPEG Rust (mht.technology):

  overview of #JPEG with a (so far partial) decoder implementation in #Rust

• Image (github.com):

  Piston’s “image” crate for #Rust supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, and PPM, plus some decoding support for BMP, TIFF, and Webp.

• Melania (freedomtothepeople.com):

  Melania #Trump filing libel lawsuits to suppress #free-speech about her apparent history of #prostitution from 1995 to 1998

• Index (bitcointalk.org):

  SNARKs for C: efficient zero-knowledge non-interactive proofs of C program execution. gmaxwell proposes applying this to #Bitcoin.

• The rise of the Weaponized AI propaganda machine (scout.ai):

  Sensationalized #Trump #USA #politics #history article about #Cambridge-Analytica #fake-news microtargeting: “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine.” Not true yet, but will be in a few years.

• Os01 (tuhdo.github.io):

  Operating systems from 0 to 1, an incomplete #osdev #ebook

• Ocular (github.com):

  a state-of-the-art historical #archival #OCR system #machine-vision

• Skip lists done right (ticki.github.io):

  Skip list #algorithms #performance

• Argentina en manos de Microsoft y Facebook (eldisenso.com):

  #Argentina #politics put our government’s email directly into #Microsoft’s hands

• Justice naps man jailed 16 months for refusing to reveal passwords (arstechnica.com):

  Francis Rawls has been imprisoned for 16 months because he says he forgot the passwords to decrypt his FileVault hard disk, which the police suspect contains child pornography. #human-rights

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  on “considerations on cost disease”: in #economics, if income is flat, costs have gone up, and saving has remained constant, then consumption must have gone down. (But maybe consumption is going up, costs remain constant, and quality is going down?)

• This guy ate his own hip for an art project (vice.com):

  Alexander Selvik Wengshoel #interview: he ate his hip after surgical replacement liberated him from his wheelchair in what he calls The Body Project. #disability #art

• Linguists have been discussing shit Gibbon I argue its not entirely about gibbons (languagejones.com):

  #linguistics and meter: “shitgibbon” fits the metrical scheme of “wankpuffin”, “cockwomble”, “fucktrumpet”, “dickbiscuit”, “twatwaffle”, “turdweasel”, “cuntpuffin”, “spunkpuffin”, “shitpuffin”; “fuckwomble”, “twatwomble”; “jizztrumpet”, “spunktrumpet”; “shitbiscuit”, “arsebiscuits”, “douchebiscuit”; “douchewaffle”, “cockwaffle”, “fartwaffle”, “cuntwaffle”, “shitwaffle”, “crapweasel”, “fuckweasel”, “pissweasel”, and “doucheweasel”, but not “bunglecunt” and “shitehawk”. “Monosyllabic expletive + trochee”. #Trump

• Trump administration considering narrower travel ban (theguardian.com):

  #Trump #USA #politics: ‘Judiciary has taken far too much power’ #immigration

• (arstechnica.com):

  #Mississippian #history: Annalee visits Cahokia

• Good things that happened in (helthehatter.tumblr.com):

  List of good things that happened in 2016. #history

• Ambient occlusion (en.wikipedia.org):

  in #graphics, you can get a “very crude approximation to full global illumination” with an "ambient occlusion" map on your image

• Ambient occlusion map (wiki.polycount.com):

  more about #ambient-occlusion #graphics, here in 3ds Max

• Gatto (cantrip.org):

  The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher #education

• 7Dcdc7B4 bc93 11e6 91ee 1adddfe36cbe story (washingtonpost.com):

  #USA life expectancy declined in 2015. #public-health

• Donald Trump administration Mike flynn Russian embassy (observer.com):

  Spies and their intrigues against #Trump. #deep-state #USA #politics

• 13047 automate the art (hackaday.io):

  A thread-wrapping art #hardware project to approximate photos with gradient descent

• Videos (youtube.com):

  Most popular videos from Robert Murray-Smith, who likes to make microwave kilns with graphene susceptors

• (researchgate.net):

  #PDF of #Merkle’s 1990 #paper on buckling-spring #reversible logic (and making rod logic reversible).

• Idempotency (stripe.com):

  Idempotency as a key to distributed systems design

• Reverse engineering surprisingly (righto.com):

  #reverse-engineering the 8008 ALU #hardware, which does sum, AND, XOR, and OR with carry-lookahead and AND-OR-NAND gates, along with some notes on the 8008’s instruction set #ISA being derived from the Datapoint 2200.

• (sparkfun.com):

  The STEMTera is a breadboard with an #Arduino inside, which is an awesome idea. Also it is Lego-compatible.

• Why RethinkDB failed (defstartup.org):

  Why RethinkDB failed, according to a founder: terrible market and wrong metrics of goodness (they for got worse is better)

• Newcomblike problems are the Norm (lesswrong.com):

  “Newcomblike” problems, where other people can kind of see what you are thinking, are normal social interaction.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion thread on improving your mental math ability, including abacus use

• A brief history of who ruined burning man (journal.burningman.org):

  “A brief history of who ruined #Burning-Man”

• Entity systems are the future of MMOG development part (t-machine.org):

  #Entity-systems in #video-games programming: “the future of MMOG development”. Also called “entity-component systems”.

• Understanding component entity systems r3013 (gamedev.net):

  Another overview advocating #entity-systems, this time under the name “component-entity systems”.

• Component (gameprogrammingpatterns.com):

  Another overview of #entity-systems

• Should I implement entity component system in all my projects (gamedev.stackexchange.com):

  Pros and cons of #entity-systems

• US power will decline under Trump says futurist who predicted Soviet collapse (motherboard.vice.com):

  Nafeez Ahmed, writing for Motherboard, does an #interview with Johan Galtung (“‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies”), who predicts #USA will decline under #Trump

• A rant on Aadhaar (medium.com):

  Kiran is not happy about #Aadhaar. #India #politics #privacy

• Care and feeding living hinges (machinedesign.com):

  Polypropylene living hinges are long-lived #flexures that experience large deformations.

• CNC capabilities (fictiv.com):

  Fictiv’s #CNC capabilities include 3-axis milling, 5-axis milling, and turning.

• Kajero (joelotter.com):

  Kajero, aimed at #explorable-explanations, gives you DHTML live editing of #Markdown documents with interactive JS code samples.

• Para Evitar Pensar (pfpabloferro.blogspot.com.ar):

  #poem “Para Evitar Pensar”. “micro novela en verso”.