Human folly for 02023-01-15

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• Osage orange history (texasmonthly.com):

  The Osage orange, horseapple, bois d’arc, bodark, bowwood, mock orange, or monkey brains tree is common in #Texas, #USA. #botany

• The 8086 processors microcode pipeline (righto.com):

  Ken Shirriff's analysis of how the #8086 pipelines its #microcode interpretation

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  "Nostr" connects “p2p” clients through relays for file sharing

• (arxiv.org):

  new sieve of Eratosthenes #algorithms with O(N^{1/3} (log N)^{2/3}) space and O(N log N) time #performance

• Tofu or not tofu (ccjktype.fonts.adobe.com):

  a fallback font with only tofu

• Matprops (mit.edu):

  #materials properties database for a #MEMS class at MIT in 02004, with density, Young's modulus, Poisson ratio, thermal and electrical conductivity, dielectric constant, index of refraction, etc., for a variety of materials commonly used in MEMS

• Groundwater replenishes much faster than scientists previously thought (eos.org):

  divulgation article about new, higher estimates of #groundwater replenishment rates by Berghuijs et al.

• 2022Gl099010 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com):

  new, higher estimates of #groundwater replenishment rates by Berghuijs et al., CC-BY-NC

• 10 art and images (standardebooks.org):

  list of museums with #CC #public-domain collections of images, from the #Standard-Ebooks Manual of Style; this is the chapter about getting art and images for ebooks

• Mary poppendiecks the Tyranny of the plan (chrisgagne.com):

  Mary Poppendieck’s 02009 talk about how the Empire State Building was built, "The Tyranny of the Plan". #management

• Linguist (packham.n4m.org):

  Richard Packham’s criticism of the #Mormon scriptural origin story from 02009

• Death in National parks (longreads.com):

  how you can die easily in US national parks, by a veteran park ranger who came close to death several times

• Elevator car call cancellation (elevation.fandom.com):

  #Elevator call canceling, mostly by double press

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of problems in Westernized #Buddhism #religion

• Renunciation in Buddhism (vividness.live):

  renunciation and asceticism play a huge role in #Buddhism. “I think Consensus “Buddhism” has more in common with liberal Christianity than Buddhism.” By a tantrika advocating #tantra: “However, throughout Sutrayana, there’s the idea that permanence is the only genuinely desirable state … Tantra, on the other hand, accepts change, values temporary pleasures, and rejects nirvana.” #religion

• Password authenticated key agreement (en.wikipedia.org):

  IETF-recommended better replacements for #SRP (aumented "PAKE"): AuCPace, augmented OPAQUE, and secondarily CPACE and SPAKE2. #security #protocols

• MN (accesstoinsight.org):

  the Great Mass of Suffering sutra. #Buddhism #religion

• Five mildly anti Buddhist essays (sashachapin.substack.com):

  criticism of westernized #Buddhism: “Some meditators claim that meditation is the cure for human psychology, in so many words, and this is obviously incorrect.” #religion

• CDC file transfer (github.com):

  "content-defined chunking" is similar to silentbicycle’s (?) #Jumprope

• (arxiv.org):

  “The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities” on #optimization systems finding ways to cheat on their metrics Goodhart's-Law-style, like Karl Sims’s creatures that fell over, etc. #AI

• Age PageRank over (blog.kagi.com):

  Vladimir Prelovac of "Kagi" thinks the age of #PageRank is over, so people need to pay them to use their #search-engine

• Stretch iPhone to its limit a 2GiB model that can draw everything in your pocket (liuliu.me):

  how to optimize #Stable-Diffusion to run in only 2 GiB