Human folly for 02020-11-12

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• (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  “#Vitamin-D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function Through Reducing Oxidative Stress Regulated by Telomere Length in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A 12-Month Randomized Controlled Trial” #medicine #paper only 800 IU/day!

• Rust after the honeymoon (dtrace.org):

  Brian “Have you ever kissed a girl?” Cantrill talks about #Rust after a couple of years of experience

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  How much #Vitamin-D is too much? #medicine #paper

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  GPSLogger #censorship by #Google; discussion

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  "Git scraping" to track changes over time; discussion

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  “What if you knew how computers work?” discussion. Recommends Petzold's “Code”, etc.

• Economy radar detector med (hobby-circuits.com):

  a radar detector #hardware schematic using a single LM1458 dual op-amp and some passives, tuning the radar signal with the legs of a discrete capacitor and rectifying it with the IC's input stage :)

• Index (tf.uni-kiel.de):

  introduction to #materials strength, Young's modulus, etc., by Helmut Föll, as a hypertext

• History of the hindu%e2%80%93arabic numeral system (en.wikipedia.org):

  European “Arabic” numerals really come from North Africa. #history

• Secret Army organization (en.wikipedia.org):

  The FBI created a right-wing terrorist group in the US in the 1970s and shielded them from prosecution. #history

• View (forumancientcoins.com):

  discussion of the #history of coinage

• Sectorforth (github.com):

  A 16-bit 8086 (?) #Forth in a 512-byte boot sector. #smallisbeautiful

• The lonely city part II real cities have curves (acoup.blog):

  how cities in #history have developed along with agricultural lands nearby or overseas

• Ionization energies (chem.libretexts.org):

  #ebook about #materials. #CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

• If management isnt a promotion then engineering isnt a demotion (charity.wtf):

  Charity pushes back on managerialism

• Abriefrantonthefutureofinteractiondesign (worrydream.com):

  Bret Victor on #HCI, deprecating "pictures under glass"

• Calg (suhr.github.io):

  Something about #concatenative programming?

• Chalcogenide glasses are the basis for emerging applications in infrared Technology (laserfocusworld.com):

  notes on chalcogenide oxygen-free glass #materials, which are useful for IR #optics because they're transparent to LWIR and MWIR, which the silicon-oxygen bond slurps up

• Text (perseus.tufts.edu):

  #CC BY-SA translation of the Odyssey #fiction

• (github.com):

  dictionary iteration order is a covert channel in #JS #security

• Qualitative analysis (wiredchemist.com):

  Traditional #qualitative-analysis of inorganic #materials, now only of pedagogical use (well, and #bootstrapping maybe)

• Chemicaltestsc (docbrown.info):

  another page on traditional #qualitative-analysis of inorganic #materials

• Calcium chloride (saltwiki.net):

  notes on #materials properties of #desiccants and other salts

• Unitcalc (github.com):

  Darius Bacon wrote a Python implementation of the units(1) definitions file format #metrology

• Syllabus (cs.utexas.edu):

  interesting "Robot Learning" class syllabus that covers the hottest modern #AI topics