December 28, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for December 27th through December 28th

These are my links for December 27th through December 28th:

AWS mistakes to avoid | Hacker News –
5 AWS mistakes you should avoid –
tj/co · GitHub –
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web –

October 9, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

These are my links for October 8th through October 9th:

Introduction to EC2 Container Service – <blockquote>An introduction to Amazon's ECS, their container management and clustering service, featuring a walk-through example for deploying your first container cluster and the underlying tasks and services.</blockquote>
J. Andrew Rogers · Pursuit of a Perfect Algorithm –
Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs – Digg –

September 11, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for September 10th through September 11th

These are my links for September 10th through September 11th:

PostgreSQL Magic – Project A Techblog –
AWS in Plain English –
Informative YouTube channels | Hacker News –
60 YouTube channels that will make you smarter — Medium –
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” Is Our Most Misread Poem – <blockquote>David Orr on the popular misconceptions surrounding the iconic poem.</blockquote>
SQL Teaching – The easiest tutorial to learn SQL –
SQLBolt – Learn SQL – Introduction to SQL –

September 8, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for September 7th through September 8th

These are my links for September 7th through September 8th:

An Explanation of Cricket – Basics
Cricket is a team sport for two teams of eleven players each. A formal game of cricket can last anything from an afternoon to several days.

Although the game play and rules are very different, the basic concept of cricket is similar to that of baseball. Teams bat in successive innings and attempt to score runs, while the opposing team fields and attempts to bring an end to the batting team's innings. After each team has batted an equal number of innings (either one or two, depending on conditions chosen before the game), the team with the most runs wins.

(Note: In cricket-speak, the word "innings" is used for both the plural and the singular. "Inning" is a term used only in baseball.)
Microservices without the Servers | AWS Compute Blog –
immersivemath: Immersive Linear Algebra –

August 17, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for August 16th through August 17th

These are my links for August 16th through August 17th:

These are my links for July 20th through July 24th:

Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying? | Hacker News -
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures | Hacker News -
The language of choice - Propositional logic was discovered by Stoics around 300 B.C., only to be abandoned in later antiquity and rebuilt in the 19th century by George Boole’s successors. One of them, Charles Peirce, saw its significance for what we now call logic circuits, yet that discovery too was forgotten until the 1930s. In the ’50s John McCarthy invented conditional expressions, casting the logic into the form we’ll study here; then in 1986 Randal Bryant repeated one of McCarthy’s constructions with a crucial tweak that made his report “for many years the most cited paper in all of computer science, because it revolutionized the data structures used to represent Boolean functions” (Knuth).1 Let’s explore and code up some of this heritage of millennia, and bring it to bear on a suitable challenge: playing tic-tac-toe.
Then we’ll tackle a task that’s a little more practical: verifying a carry-lookahead adder circuit. Supposedly logic gets used all the time for all kinds of serious work, but for such you’ll have to consult the serious authors; what I can say myself, from working out the code to follow, is that the subject offers a fun playground plus the most primitive form of the pun between meaning and mechanism.

You’re encouraged to read with this article’s code cloned and ready

Absurdle, an adversarial version of Wordle January 15, 2022
it changes the word based on the possibility space; see also: HATETRIS from the same creator #
The Extraordinary Details of Tiny Creatures Captured with a Laser-Scanning Microscope by Igor Siwanowicz October 13, 2016
Acilius diving beetle male front tarsus (foot) 100x If you’ve ever wondered how a diving beetle swims through the water or manages to rest just on the surface, the answer is in part because its foot is infinitely more complicated than your own. As seen above, this microscopic image of a male Acilius sulcatus (diving […]
61 Glimpses of the Future July 13, 2016
Jan Chipchase is the founder of Studio D Radiodurans, which is sort of a modern day A-Team, except with more field research and fewer guns. For example, Chipchase is the sort of person who, for vacation, does not sip pina coladas in Bali but heads for "Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan's GBAO region and China's western provinces". At […]
Building a race simulator October 4, 2014
One of the most fascinating aspects of modern Formula 1 is the use of computer simulations to predict car performances and race strategies. By the early 1990s, teams like Benetton had begun to develop simple race simulators to estimate optimal strategies. Today, teams develop highly sophisticated models based on massive amounts of telemetry data. Constructing mathematical […]
Photo August 20, 2014
Breathtaking Aerial Landscapes of Iceland by Sarah Martinet August 17, 2014
While on a recent trip to Iceland, photographer Sarah Martinet had the opportunity to shoot these amazing landscapes from a plane with open windows. You can see much more of her work (as well as more from this trip) on 500px and Facebook.

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Bookmarks for October 8th through October 9th

Bookmarks for September 10th through September 11th

Bookmarks for August 16th through August 17th