Human folly for 02017-04-26

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• Differential dataflow (github.com):

  Frank McSherry’s differential #dataflow implementation does #incremental dataflow computation, adding items progressively to initially empty input collections.

• Srep42874 (nature.com):

  #paper “Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor is subjected to glucose modification and oxidation in #Alzheimer’s Disease”

• Mongongo (en.wikipedia.org):

  San/!Kung desert staple food mongongo/manketti

• Life hacking (alexvermeer.com):

  “snapshot of how I run my life” #self-help

• How to be successful (80000hours.org):

  #self-help: evidence-based advice on "how to be successful"

• Hinting at PostgreSQL (blog.2ndquadrant.com):

  how to get #Postgres to come up with decent #database query plans by setting planner parameters like join_collapse_limit and random_page_cost.

• Pqts (explain.depesz.com):

  explain.depesz.com is a visualizer for #Postgres #database query plans and explain analyze results

• (theatlantic.com):

  The Atlantic talks about the #history of the #Google #Books settlement, the failure of which they liken to torching the Library of Alexandria. Mentions that in 2017 a Second Circuit decision held Google’s book snippet display to be fair use!

• Teach debugging (danluu.com):

  programming #education should teach #debugging; the circuit debugging story #formina

• Tvd2 (sinanvural.com):

  1969 #interview with Frank Herbert about #Dune

• VK9 (github.com):

  SchaeferGL, now "VK9", is an implementation of Direct3D 9, which many argue is the best medium between inflexibility and inaccessibility for 3D APIs, on #Vulkan.

• Lies damn lies and SSD benchmark master TI (seagate.com):

  how to test #SSD #performance according to Seagate, and the kinds of errors you can run into if you don’t do it right

• Snappy CLI (github.com):

  A CLI interface to Snappy #compression, written in Node JS

• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance author Robert m Pirsig dies at (npr.org):

  #Pirsig #obituary from NPR

• Robert Pirsig dead wrote Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (nytimes.com):

  #Pirsig #obituary from Paul Vitello at the NYT

• Psycopg2 tutorial (wiki.postgresql.org):

  #Tutorial on using #Postgres from Python

• Chomsky%E2%80%93Sch%C3%Bctzenberger representation theorem (en.wikipedia.org):

  Hmm, a Dyck language and a regular language intersected give you an arbitrary context-free language? #parsing #algorithms

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Jon Blow is cynical about #algorithms like the ones used in Raph #Levien’s editor #xi.

• (bjoern.hoehrmann.de):

  Björn’s table-driven UTF-8 decoder in 10 lines of C, not counting the 384-byte table. #Unicode #algorithms #smallisbeautiful

• Preventing interference from the old BIOS while flashing Coreboot (puri.sm):

  AMI firmware was overwriting some of the flash during shutdown, which was bricking machines they were flashing #coreboot onto. Fixed now. #Debugging story.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Bob Taylor #obituary comment thread; Alan Kay wins the thread.

• Daniel dennett Rapoport rules criticism (brainpickings.org):

  Four steps to “criticizing with kindness”, by Anatol Rapoport: 1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.” 2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement). 3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target. 4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

• Princetons ad blocking superweapon may put an end to the ad blocking arms race (motherboard.vice.com):

  Princeton’s perceptual adblocker uses the legally required disclosures of advertising to recognize ads, using #computer-vision. #adblocking

• Smallest federated Wiki as an alternate vision of the web (hapgood.us):

  Mike Caulfield wrote an article with screencast-thumbnails of Ward’s "Smallest Federated Wiki", which displays pages in separate columns so you can, among other things, move paragraphs from one to another, and which also supports data as a first-class citizen, including data you can graph. #Wiki #hypertext

• Fusion reactors not what they%e2%80%99re cracked (thebulletin.org):

  drawbacks of #fusion #energy: on-site power drain, tritium loss (and insufficient breeding), neutron degradation, weapons proliferation, etc., by Jassby.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  commentary on Jassby’s #fusion #energy article.

• Animated Bezier (jasondavies.com):

  D3 #animation of Bézier curves. #math #explorable-explanations

• How to avoid going to jail under 18 U s C section 1001 for lying (corporate.findlaw.com):

  on the #USA Section 1001 crime of lying in a matter under the jurisdiction of the federal government

• Carbohydrate Hypothesis of obesity (wholehealthsource.blogspot.com.ar):

  Why #Taubes’ carbohydrate hypothesis of #obesity is not accepted, by a researcher in the field of diet.

• (squid314.livejournal.com):

  Scott Alexander on #obesity and #Taubes’ book

• Use a Nokia N82 TFT panel with your Arduino (hackaday.com):

  Andy Brown #reverse-engineering QVGA RGB #cellphone #displays #hardware from a Nokia N82, using a parallel interface

• Nokia N82 Arduino (andybrown.me.uk):

  more detail on Andy Brown #reverse-engineering QVGA RGB #cellphone #displays #hardware from a Nokia N82

• Interfacing the Nokia 6300 QVGA TFT to the standard Arduino (andybrown.me.uk):

  Andy Brown running the #cellphone #displays #hardware from a Nokia N82 on an #Arduino Uno using PORTD for the parallel interface; he reaches like 700 kilopixels per second of fill rate

• PCF8833 (web.archive.org):

  #PDF #datasheet for #cellphone #displays #hardware controller PCF8833, used in many old Nokia 132×132 phone displays

• How to use a Nokia color LCD (instructables.com):

  Driving #cellphone #displays #hardware that uses a PCF8833 (like many old Nokia displays) using bitbanged SPI from an #Arduino

• Make smartwatch old cell phone part (tinkernut.com):

  The 96×65 Nokia 1100 LCD #cellphone #displays #hardware uses a PCF8814 and can be driven with SPI from an #Arduino

• Arduino library Nokia 1100 LCD PCF8814 (github.com):

  Library for driving Nokia 1100 (96×65) and compatible PCF8814 #cellphone #displays #hardware with an #Arduino

• Reusing your ancient mobile phone LCD (dontbuyjustmake.blogspot.com.ar):

  driving Nokia 5210 LCD #cellphone #displays #hardware with SPI from an #Arduino Leonardo using the Adafruit PCD8544 library

• Nokia5210 (github.com):

  code for driving Nokia 5210 LCD #cellphone #displays #hardware with SPI from an #Arduino Leonardo using the Adafruit PCD8544 library

• Is it possible to wire up a cellphone screen to work with a different device (electronics.stackexchange.com):

  overview of running #cellphone #displays #hardware with microcontrollers

• S1D15G10Nokialcd (playground.arduino.cc):

  driving the Epson S1D15G10 pseudo-Nokia #cellphone #displays #hardware from an #Arduino

• Arduino t6963c (code.google.com):

  an #Arduino library for driving #cellphone #displays #hardware with the Toshiba T6963 controller, from 2011

• Nokia 5110 3310 monochrome LCD (cdn-learn.adafruit.com):

  #PDF on driving the #cellphone #displays #hardware from the Nokia 5110 or 3310, which is a 84×48 PCD8544

• Schematics (radiolocman.com):

  driving the #cellphone #displays #hardware from the Nokia 3310 (84×48 PCD8544) from a PIC12

• PCD8544 (playground.arduino.cc):

  an #Arduino driver for #cellphone #displays #hardware

• Nokia5110 (sparkfun.com):

  The #PDF #datasheet for the PCD8544 #cellphone #displays #hardware controller used in the Nokia 5110 and 3310

• Ps2Protocol (computer-engineering.org):

  PS/2 keyboard #hardware interfacing on a PIC

• Improving Facebook s performance on Android with FlatBuffers (code.facebook.com):

  #FlatBuffers #serialization #performance on #Android, with lots of pretty pictures

• Bezierinfo (pomax.github.io):

  more #explorable-explanations of Bézier curves.