Human folly for 02022-05-26

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• Warenkorb (de.wikipedia.org):

  #history of #inflation in #Germany, 01995–02012. #economics

• Inflationsrechner (service.destatis.de):

  more recent #history of #Germany #inflation, 02015–02022.

• Swanson'S law (en.wikipedia.org):

  The experience curve or learning curve for #photovoltaic #pricing is called “Swanson’s Law”

• Wallace tree (en.wikipedia.org):

  A Wallace multiplier is #hardware #circuits for multiplication that spends more gates to get a short path length

• Dadda multiplier (en.wikipedia.org):

  A Dadda multiplier is #hardware #circuits for multiplication with as few gates as possible, but a longer path length than a Wallace multiplier; lkcl says these two are the most commonly used multiplier designs

• Gun control (en.wikipedia.org):

  good overview of research on the effects of #gun-control on crime and suicide. #politics

• Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX (lemire.me):

  #algorithm #performance for #parsing #JSON: 7.4 GB/s to look for tweets by a particular person, for example, 12 GB/s for minification by removing whitespace, or 3.6 GB/s to produce a full in-memory DOM tree. Apparently #AVX-512 actually does improve performance now.

• Workshop program (langsec.org):

  The #LangSec 22 workshop schedule.

• Modular Panasonic Toughbook has 8 replaceable parts 1200 Nit screen (arstechnica.com):

  new Panasonic Toughbook 40 laptop is IP66 ingress protected, weighs 7.4 “pounds” (3.4 kg), a 1920×1080 screen that’s 1200 nits (1200 candelas/m²) so you can read it in direct sunlight, 18 hour battery life (or 36 hours with optional second battery), resistive touchpad so you can use it with gloves, up to 64 GiB of RAM and a Core i7-1185G7.

• Pmc4318286 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  #paper on #insanity and #mass-killings and #gun-control

• S41586 (nature.com):

  #paper on low-density urbanism in the Amazon. #archaeology

• The new York times is wrong about (vodoueconomics.substack.com):

  #Haiti #journalism

• Rwvki (archive.fo):

  archive of https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/here-are-all-the-companies-from-y-combinators-summer-2021-demo-day-part-1/ which is a list of well over 100 #startups in #Y-Combinator’s summer 2021 batch with a short paragraph about each

• (nitter.net):

  #Y-Combinator’s email to founders about the disastrous #economics we’re going into

• Daedalus (github.com):

  DaeDaLus is a Turing-complete #parsing library that supports input synthesis

• Buildserver overhaul sponsored by Calyx Institute (f-droid.org):

  The Calyx Institute is sponsoring a new #F-Droid build box

• Sliding to mild Nope omicron BA 2 caused worse covid symptoms than (arstechnica.com):

  #Covid omicron BA.2 caused more symptoms than BA.1, which caused more symptoms than δ, which caused more symptoms than α, which caused more symptoms than the wild-type covid virus.

• DataGlyphs (microglyphs.com):

  DataGlyphs encode one bit per halftone pixel with the orientation of a line. PARC apparently licensed the patents to Microglyphs, but they must be expired or nearly expired by now, since they were talking about them in 02006 if not earlier.

• Intro (docs.racket-lang.org):

  Goblins is an #object-capability #actors environment in #Racket with time travel via #snapshots

• 10 sparks lit flame scratch (openlearning.mit.edu):

  Scratch #history starts with Andy Begel’s LogoBlocks, then developed through Etoys in 02001, and then they started on Scratch in 02002.

• Tictactoe (github.com):

  #Kitten apparently has infix syntax and Python-style control syntax, a huge departure from earlier #concatenative languages like Cat and Forth.

• SQL (shakti.com):

  the #K approach to SQL. #APL

• (jsoftware.com):

  Elijah Stone (#moon-child, moon-chilled on GH)’s notes on rank and transpose in #J. #APL

• Render (github.com):

  some math code in #J dealing with quadratics

• Bolinas puts good karma on the ballot (sfgate.com):

  Measure G: “Vote for #Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean) and to make it beautiful.” It passed. #USA #politics