the manifesto for relationship anarchy, by Andie Nordgren, the Executive Producer of science-fiction MMO EVE Online. #poly
videos to learn #fluid-dynamics with
Tesla batteries for #solar #energy supply smoothing (peak shaving)
a pretty floating #desalination plant conceptual design with somewhat subpar efficiency
1989 memoir of using cell phones and “trunk #radio systems” in #aviation, by George Goble
Forbes on #predictions: “Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it’s devastated the planet and has failed to improve human well-being at scale.”
The #C++ “Super-FAQ”
a somewhat polished #immediate-mode GUI library. “#ImGui outputs vertex buffers and simple command-lists that you can render in your application.”
#Android supports #BLE (“Bluetooth Low Energy”) pulse #radio devices since Android 4.3; here are the APIs.
Golomb-compressed sets (GCSes) provide similar functionality to #Bloom-filters but are smaller. “While a compressed Bloom filter treats this as a bitmap, a GCS treats it as a list of values. Since the values are the result of hashing, we can assume that they are uniformly distributed, sort them and build a list of differences. The differences will be geometrically distributed with a parameter of p. Golomb coding is the optimal encoding for geometrically distributed values: you divide by 1/p, encode that in unary then encode the remainder in binary.” #algorithms
“Should We Prescribe Calcium Supplements For Osteoporosis Prevention?” 2014 #medicine #paper saying that calcium supplements are mostly actively harmful
“Vascular events in healthy older women receiving calcium supplementation: randomised controlled trial” calcium supplements cause strokes #medicine #paper
#music #UX #toread “If I weren’t interacting with a computer, how would I express this musical idea? As I am interacting with a computer, what can it do for me that traditional equipment can’t?”
Alan Kay’s point of view on why Xerox PARC was special. #history
#PDF #paper in which Omohundro argues that rational optimizing agents will strive for self-preservation in most circumstances