November 19, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for November 18th through November 19th

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November 12, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for November 12th

How Burgers and Fries Are Killing Your Microbial Balance – <blockquote>For the microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, that career-defining moment—the discovery that changed the trajectory of his research,…</blockquote>
$635 poop pills cure deadly gastrointestinal infection | Ars Technica – <blockquote>Doses of the 30-capsule fecal transplant method cured up to 94% of patients.</blockquote>
Single course of antibiotics can mess up the gut microbiome for a year | Ars Technica – <blockquote>Mouth microbes, on the other hand, don’t seem to care.</blockquote>

October 27, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

The Ambivalent Marriage Takes a Toll on Health – The New York Times –
Unexpected Honey Study Shows Woes of Nutrition Research – The New York Times – <blockquote>Almost everything we “know” is based on small, limited studies, and the limited conclusions are often overblown.</blockquote>
Jadad Score – ANZ Journal of Surgery – <blockquote>Jadad Score The Jadad scale assesses the quality of published clinical trials based methods relevant to random assignment, double blinding, and the flow of patients. There are 7 items. The last 2 attract a negative score, which means that the range of possible scores is 0 bad to 5 good 1. Was the study described as randomized this includes words…</blockquote>

October 15, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

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August 26, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

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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