the ever-important stuff
http://opentrannoscripts.org/trannoscript/coming-war-general-computation/
http://opentrannoscripts.org/trannoscript/coming-war-general-computation/
Open Trannoscripts
The Coming War on General Computation - Cory Doctorow | Open Trannoscripts
The general shape of the copyright wars and the lessons they can teach us about the upcoming fights over the destiny of the general purpose computer are important.
not only nice visualizations, but an entertaining stories too!
http://quillette.com/2017/05/26/paradoxes-probability-statistical-strangeness/
http://quillette.com/2017/05/26/paradoxes-probability-statistical-strangeness/
Quillette
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness
You don’t have to wait long to see a headline proclaiming that some food or behaviour is associated with either an increased or a decreased health risk, or often both. How can it be that seemingly rigorous scientific studies can produce opposite conclusions?…
Even considering how much I generally dislike Linux — I'm very excited about userfaultfd and possibilities it provides to developers
https://lwn.net/Articles/718198/
https://lwn.net/Articles/718198/
lwn.net
The next steps for userfaultfd()
The userfaultfd() system call
allows user space to intervene in the handling of page faults. As Andrea
Arcangeli and Mike Rapoport described in a 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
and Memory-Management Summit session dedicated to the subject,
userfaultfd()…
allows user space to intervene in the handling of page faults. As Andrea
Arcangeli and Mike Rapoport described in a 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
and Memory-Management Summit session dedicated to the subject,
userfaultfd()…
Oh, the Dutch-lobbied movement is gaining traction! Meanwhile #scihub :)
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers
Science
In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020
Observers are skeptical goal can be achieved
Siggraph '17: Wet Sand Simulation
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/research/wetsand/wetsand_siggraph17.pdf
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~cffjiang/research/wetsand/wetsand_siggraph17.pdf
surprisingly, the Ampere, the base SI unit of electrical current, is going to be redefined from scratch
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/08/counting-down-new-ampere
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/08/counting-down-new-ampere
NIST
Counting Down to the New Ampere
After it's all over, your lights will be just as bright, and your refrigerator just as cold. But very soon the ampere...
> In the "New SI" four of the SI base units – namely the kilogram, the ampere, the kelvin and the mole – will be redefined in terms of constants; the new definitions will be based on fixed numerical values of the Planck constant (h), the elementary charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (kB), and the Avogadro constant (NA), respectively. Further, the definitions of all seven base units of the SI will also be uniformly expressed using the explicit-constant formulation, and specific mises en pratique will be drawn up to explain the realization of the definitions of each of the base units in a practical way.
Cleaning Line Art with Deep Learning
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~esimo/en/research/sketch/
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp:8081/ (demo)
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/~esimo/en/research/sketch/
http://hi.cs.waseda.ac.jp:8081/ (demo)
Intel IoT is no more (current gen, at least)
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19/intel-discontinues-joule-galileo-and-edison-product-lines/
http://hackaday.com/2017/06/19/intel-discontinues-joule-galileo-and-edison-product-lines/
Hackaday
Intel Discontinues Joule, Galileo, And Edison Product Lines
Sometimes the end of a product’s production run is surrounded by publicity, a mix of a party atmosphere celebrating its impact either good or bad, and perhaps a tinge of regret at its passing…
TLDR: new class of vulnerabilities, obvious in hindsight, 20+ CVE in Linux, *BSD and possibly other OSes
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06/19/stack-clash/stack-clash.txt
oh hai hello world bots are learning to talk
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06585.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06585.pdf
Origamizer: A Practical Algorithm for Folding Any Polyhedron
That's like, 10x more cool than Pepakura Designer, which is already fucking cool
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315747461_Origamizer_A_Practical_Algorithm_for_Folding_Any_Polyhedron
That's like, 10x more cool than Pepakura Designer, which is already fucking cool
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315747461_Origamizer_A_Practical_Algorithm_for_Folding_Any_Polyhedron
ResearchGate
(PDF) Origamizer: A Practical Algorithm for Folding Any Polyhedron
PDF | It was established at SoCG'99 that every polyhedral complex can be folded from a sufficiently large square of paper, but the known algorithms are... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
every new popular service goes thru "weak password resets" it seems
https://github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Gathering-weak-npm-credentials.md
https://github.com/ChALkeR/notes/blob/master/Gathering-weak-npm-credentials.md
GitHub
notes/Gathering-weak-npm-credentials.md at master · ChALkeR/notes
Some public notes. Contribute to ChALkeR/notes development by creating an account on GitHub.
MLSub is surprisingly nice and refreshing! Expect a wave of programming language/compiler updates
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/mlsub/
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/mlsub/
Ransomware is pretty much crossplatform
https://www.scmagazine.com/erebus-ransomware-attack-demanded-162-million-from-south-korean-firm/article/669604/
https://www.scmagazine.com/erebus-ransomware-attack-demanded-162-million-from-south-korean-firm/article/669604/
SC Media US
Erebus ransomware attack demanded $1.62 million from South Korean firm
A South Korea firm was hit with a Linux ransomware attack which demanded an unprecedented $1.62 million ransom.
Telugu Measures and Arithmetic Marks
http://pic.blog.plover.com/math/telugu/Venna.pdf
http://pic.blog.plover.com/math/telugu/Venna.pdf
Hmm, looks like I steer clear from this stuff for a reason
https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/
https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/
The HFT Guy
Docker in Production: A History of Failure
Introduction My first encounter with docker goes back to early 2015. Docker was experimented with to find out whether it could benefit us. At the time it wasn’t possible to run a container [i…