The BK-tree, or Burkhard-Keller tree, from Damn Cool #Algorithms. It’s a kind of index that gives you fast approximate string matching, so you can e.g. find misspelling candidates from a dictionary.
Dead Trees #ebook: a book that plays Hangman with you
Arrest warrants in #Turkey issued for 105 “tech experts”, shortly after a mass arrest at a civil society #security training. #politics
Thorough rebuttal to yesterday’s very pessimistic #climate-change article #The-Uninhabitable-Earth
How cast iron cookware works, including a bit of #materials science and reactions
#USA B-1B flight buzzes North #Korea, accompanied by jets from #Japan and South Korea, in response to recent ICBM launch. #politics
“Perform massively parallel #GPGPU computations using #WebGL.” This sounds super awesome, although it’s doing this goofy pseudo-#JS parsing thing. Unfortunately their benchmark only gets a 7× speedup on this laptop, which is less than what you’d expect going from JS to e.g. C++, Golang, or Rust on the CPU.
“Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.” like OpenFrameworks or Proce55ing
#politics of #Trump against civil servants via Cernovich; the CFP raises eyebrows
a very pessimistic article about #climate-change, sort of a summary of the NYMag article #The-Uninhabitable-Earth
"The Uninhabitable Earth", the very pessimistic #climate-change article in NYMag
Partial rebuttal to the very pessimistic #climate-change article #The-Uninhabitable-Earth by a climatologist who was one of its sources (though not quoted)
Science fiction books about #climate-change
A “wellness” livestreamer #quack in #China poisoned herself by biting an agave leaf, mistaking it for aloe vera, but suffered no worse than sores in her mouth and throat. #toxicology
"SIMPL", a stripped-down #Forth interpreter, is now running within 780 bytes (on I think the MSP430 #microcontroller). #smallisbeautiful
Ken Boak’s #SIMPL #source-code for the MSP430 #microcontroller; I think this is the 780-byte version. The source is only 811 lines of #asm. #smallisbeautiful
a guy is building 8080 CPU #hardware out of discrete transistors. #smallisbeautiful
You can speed up transistor #hardware turnoff by keeping them from ever going into saturation with a two-diode Baker clamp, useful for DTL.
#Solar resource of #Japan (other countries presumably available)
#3D scanning of a shape by dipping it repeatedly into water with a robot in different orientations and measuring the water level change, using the "dip transform", including (some) cavities
Ken #Shirriff #reverse-engineering Intel’s first #hardware product, the 3101 bipolar mostly-DTL 64-bit (16-nybble) memory chip, using Schottky transistors (!!). #history #toread
against lone-wolf #self-help
discussion thread on a minimal #PDF file by Brendan Zagaeski. #smallisbeautiful
overview of the #USA criminal justice system
patent lawsuit from pirate Blackbird against #Cloudflare and #Fastly #patents
Microsoft Windows has problems with UI responsivity under load too; it isn’t just Linux. “[A]dding more cores to my workstation makes the UI less responsive.” #OS
“#Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed emergency regulations allowing the state’s Tax Department to grant more #marijuana distribution licenses” #USA #politics
#Censorship in #China will now remove videos “promoting” “abnormal sexual behaviors” including #LGBT. #human-rights
#PDF catalog of #piezoelectric actuator hardware and guide to its use