Human folly for 02017-07-23

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• Carmageddon is coming (medium.com):

  #predictions: cars will mostly go away?

• Neurodiversity case free speech (quillette.com):

  #neurodiversity: would Newton have survived modern speech codes in academia? “When universities impose speech codes, they impose impossible behavioral standards on people who aren’t neurotypical, such as those with Asperger’s, bipolar, Tourette’s, or dozens of other personality quirks or mental ‘disorders’.”

• Powerful study lead crime Hypothesis (motherjones.com):

  #lead #public-health natural experiment

• Rwt (ece.rice.edu):

  Rice Wavelet toolbox. #wavelets #DSP

• Doesnt love wall (blog.lareviewofbooks.org):

  Ivy Schweitzer is a professor of English at Dartmouth; in this essay she suggests that the Wall of China “kept Chinese civilization isolated from foreign influences and the modernizing world. The wall kept China in the dark ages”.

• (arxiv.org):

  #paper on “Hazelnut”, a structure editor that keeps your program well-typed the whole time, by Matthew Hammer (the self-adjusting computation guy, no?)

• Why everyone missed the most important invention in the last 500 years (hackernoon.com):

  “triple-entry accounting” is somehow supposed to revolutionize everything and is some kind of generalization of #Bitcoin? This article is like a Bingo card of financial hype, including invocation of Warren “Buffet”.

• Virtual music box (windytan.com):

  #DSP for music-box emulation

• Kin aesthetics excommunicate me from the Church of social justice (catalystwedco.com):

  against “seeking purity”, “reproducing colonialist logics”, “preaching/punishments”, and “sacred texts” in the social justice movement

• Term latency (danluu.com):

  Dan Luu complains that many commonly-used terminal emulators have painfully high #latency. #UX

• You install 1600 megawatts and what do you get another 1600 MW (pv-magazine-usa.com):

  Massachusetts, #USA, installed 1.6 gigawatts of #solar #photovoltaic power in 2012–2017, its goal for 2020, and so it’s going to try installing another 1.6 gigawatts by 2022, citing a 5-year 64% decline in installation costs. #energy

• Microelectronicsandthepersonalcomputer (guidebookgallery.org):

  “Microelectronics and the Personal Computer”, Alan #Kay’s 1977 SciAm article about #Smalltalk and the Dynabook and other things. Kind of a shorter, updated “As We May Think”, echoing Engelbart in some ways. So simulation-centric it actually contains the phrase, “already created simulations, such as a general text editor”.