Human folly for 02018-08-16

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• Russians use creepy text messages scare Ukrainians changing warfare (uk.businessinsider.com):

  #Russia, in the #Ukraine #war, uses soldiers’ cellphones to target them individually — and their families.

• Blog (n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com):

  Why #laser-cutter work has trouble with plywood #materials, and how Nervous System commissioned their own custom plywood.

• CircuitJS (falstad.com):

  #circuit #simulation of PWM filtering, also at https://is.gd/pwmoc

• Tinywm (incise.org):

  "Tinywm" is a window manager in 50 lines of C. #smallisbeautiful

• (arxiv.org):

  A quantum-computing algorithm for finding collisions in e.g. secure hash functions #paper #QC

• Nintendos offensive tragic and totally legal erasure of ROM sites (motherboard.vice.com):

  #Nintendo uses #copyright for #censorship of game ROM sites.

• Dijkstras (blog.evjang.com):

  Different important #algorithms that are Dijkstra’s shortest-path graph traversal algorithm on a number of other kinds of graphs.

• Mwsurvey (cs.princeton.edu):

  #PDF #paper on different #algorithms that are all kind of the same “multiplicative weights update method”

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Comment thread on OpenStax, a collection of CC-BY licensed textbooks. #ebook

• (syntheticneurobiology.org):

  #PDF #paper on “expansion microscopy”, where they infuse a cell with a polyelectrolyte gel and then swell it up by 4.5× linearly.