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Archive 2012
- How Subway Networks Evolve
- Android Fragmentation
- NPR: Algorithms: The Ever-Growing, All-Knowing Way Of The Future
- Algorithms for the Masses, Robert Sedgewick
- Jay Leno’s 3D Printer Replaces Rusty Old Parts
- Beware the Creeping Cracks of Bias: Evidence is mounting that research is riddled with systematic errors. Left unchecked, this could erode public trust, warns Daniel Sarewitz.
- Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology
- Incredible, Edible Bugs: Will Meals of Mealworms Catch on in U.S.?
- The frequent fliers who flew too much
- gcodetools is an inkscape CNC extension
- AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone
- Television pickup is a phenomenon affecting the British National Grid electricity transmission network. As the British public tend to watch the same TV programmes and take advantage of breaks in these programmes to operate electrical appliances (particularly kettles) they cause large, synchronised surges in electricity consumption.
- Clock Abuse Tutorial for the Nintendo DS explains the use of random numbers
- SNL: The King of the Jungle
- Living Root Bridges
- Apollo Source Code
- Bike shedding
- Emperor penguins counted from space
- Equal Rights for Functional Objects or, The More Things Change, The More They Are the Same
- Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs
- Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software
- Rendering the World: most of the maps of the world are redundant
- DECFLOAT: The data type of the future
- Zipf's Law
- Onagawa nuke plant saved from tsunami by one man's strength, determination
- "Ghost ship" off Canada heralds arrival of tsunami debris
- The Lisp Curse
- AdblockPlus blog: Downloading a File, How Hard Can It Be? -- deals with spreading regular updates evenly over time to reduce peak server load.
- RTB: Where Erlang BLOOMs
- Big Data Counting: How To Count A Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB Of Memory
- Growing Up With Computers
- readability
- SNL: Zooey Deschanel
- Mariana Trench Descents
- How governments have tried to block Tor
- Beyond Exceptions: Conditions and Restarts
- Onagawa nuke plant saved from tsunami by one man's strength, determination
- Wikipedia is dying because it's gotten too strict
- wind map
- Javascript LatticeMico32 Emulator (runs Linux)
- Super-resolution
- Hyper Geometry
- One danger of designing an interoperability document is that you might find nobody wants to implement any of your specs.
- Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait
- processing js
- OpenBSD bug in the
random() function
- Satellites expose 8,000 years of civilization
- $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms
- Hilbert's problems
- The Zen of R
- Loudness war
- Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark
- $100 To Fly Through the Airport
- The laser unprinter
- After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
- Quickchecking poolboy
- Polya's How to Solve It
- MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers. It allows you to embed LaTeX inline and generates beautiful renderings.
- d3.js Force-Directed Graph. so sexy.
- Concurrency's shysters
- How Python 3 Should Have Worked
- Evolution of a Python programmer.py
- reversing lines in a file when
tac is not available and rev doesn't work: sed -n '1!G;h;$p' filename
- Filenames and Pathnames in Shell: How to do it correctly
- autotools sucks diagram
- Succinct data structure
- Beer distribution game
- MongoDB Object IDs
- Subtle interactions in the embedded world - what bugs can teach us
- Open source symbolic algebra systems:
- 4711
- Subject: R7RSWG1 Proposal: Clarifying and potentially removing call/cc
- How Mailinator Compresses Email by 90%
- How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
- Unexpected concurrency in Python finalizers
- Challenge: shuffle a sequence and prove it's random
- Permutation
- Fisher—Yates shuffle
- Fisher—Yates shuffle: Potential sources of bias
a shuffle driven by such a generator cannot possibly produce more
distinct permutations than the generator has distinct possible states.
Even when the number of possible states exceeds the number of permutations,
the irregular nature of the mapping from sequences of numbers to permutations
means that some permutations will occur more often than others. Thus,
to minimize bias, the number of states of the PRNG should exceed the number
of permutations by at least several orders of magnitude.
- Linear feedback shift register
- Statistical randomness
- Binomial distribution
- Ramsey theory
Ramsey theory results do say that sufficiently large objects must necessarily
contain a given structure, often the proof of these results requires these
objects to be enormously large — bounds that grow exponentially,
or even as fast as the Ackermann function are not uncommon.
- Symbol regression
- How to unknowingly waste space : something as simple as a const pointer can take up a lot of space via ELF's
.rodata, *.rel.* and symbol tables.
- Data Monster: Why graphics processors will transform database processing
- Train stations drive away teen troublemakers with classical music
- Mimic function
- torspec.git
- dummynet
- After Giants' Surreal Touchdown, Debates on the Strategy
- Password Reuse
- Open Advice is a knowledge collection from a wide variety of Free Software projects.
- How People Troll and How to Stop Them
- No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs
- Attack of the Cosmic Rays!
- The FULL Yo Gabba Gabba Sorrento Commercial How You Like Me Now Stuffed Animals Car Commercial. Great ad.
- Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
- Bizarro comics
- Google Will Start Country-Specific Censorship for Blogs
- Sandia National Laboratories' self-guided bullet prototype can hit target a mile away
- Graphing Russia's Election Fraud
- What does your mobile phone usage say about your credit-worthiness?
- Feynman 'Fun to Imagine': Fire
- Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs
- Uncommon Act of Design: Fake Bus Stop Helps Alzheimer's Patients
- Autotools Tutorial for Beginners : Chapter 5: Autotools tutorial summary. This is the only autotools tutorial that made any sense or worked for me. Autotools is completely baffling for your average programmer due to a lack of straight-forward documentation or examples. It took much longer for me to sort through roundabout tutorials and perplexing documentation trying to understand how the pieces fit together than it did to actually make the code changes after I found this link.
- The Cold Patrol
- Enterprise $9.99 weekend rates
- Concerns About Online Piracy Act Growing Among State's Congressional Delegation
- App That Would Guide Users Away From High-Crime Areas Proves Controversial
- Xerox Helped Win the Cold War by spying on the Soviet embassy with a custom copy machine.
- Thomas Edison's Concrete Houses
- PBS Frontline: Nuclear Aftershocks: covers Fukushima and the state of U.S. nuclear safety.
- Elderly experts share life advice
- Southern-fried chef Paula Deen has diabetes. Maybe Fried Butter Balls weren't such a good idea after all.
- How the Great Firewall of China Blocks Tor
- Berkshire Hathaway didn't get rich by spending a lot on a website.
- The Wilderness Society is a not-for-profit organization in the United States that advocates for the protection of U.S. public lands.
- High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
- Mohammed Bah Abba invented an evaporative cooling system using 2 clay pots and wet sand that keeps produce fresh for weeks using no electricity.
- The California Cooler Problem
- A french butter dish can keep butter at room temperaure for up to a month.
- Norway facing a severe butter shortage partly as the result of a "low-carb" diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasises a higher intake of fats.
- EdWort's Apfelwein cider recipe
- Joe's Quick Grape Mead recipe
- Buying Ladybugs: Why Mother Nature Wouldn?t Approve
- TSA Makes $400K in Loose Change
- Mega Machines: Tree Spade and Transporter
- the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market
- Avoid creating trash
- Make your own wine
- Raingarden installation
- The Incentives Catastrophe
- America's Effect on Farming in Iraq via Order 81 which destroyed Iraqi farmers by favoring imports and making it illegal to save seed (requiring purchase of e.g. Monsanto terminator seeds)
- 100 Orders for Iraq by America introduced significant modifications to Iraq's laws
- How to Capture the Sun in a Beer Can (beer can solargraph)
- Urban Permaculture in Western Australia (more like suburban)
- The Battle of Chernobyl
- Doctors Going Broke
- The International Moth, a fast sailing hydrofoil dinghy with liberal restrictions
- Shotgun shack redux: mortgage-free in 320 square feet
- Ohio Officials Putting In Place Earthquake Preparedness Plans
- The Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act is a United States federal law, first passed in 1957 and since renewed several times, which governs liability-related issues for all non-military nuclear facilities constructed in the United States before 2026. The main purpose of the Act is to partially indemnify the nuclear industry against liability claims arising from nuclear incidents while still ensuring compensation coverage for the general public.
- The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equitable and balanced. The FCC decided to eliminate the Doctrine in 1987, and in August 2011 the FCC formally removed the language that implemented the Doctrine.
- FEDCO is a seed/plant co-op based in Maine
- Organic Agriculture May Be Outgrowing Its Ideals
- Demonstration and review of the Pocket Chainsaw
- How to Sharpen Tools : Manually Sharpening a Hand Saw
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