March 30, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for March 30th

Table for one: How to play board games without a group | Ars Technica – <blockquote>From solo games to apps and virtual tabletops, there's a world of options.</blockquote>
Evolution of Webdesign –
What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view. –
GitHub – lukebuehler/CShell: A simple, yet powerful, C# scripting IDE and REPL –
C# REPL | Mono –
A Large Dataset of Object Scans –
Refurbishing A 1927 Switchboard, Part 1: Wiring –
expired at the daytona 500 | Redlights and Redeyes –
EC2 for Poets –
TensorFlow for Poets « Pete Warden’s blog –
Beyond the sea | Andy Woodruff –

March 7, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for March 7th

February 22, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for February 21st through February 22nd

These are my links for February 21st through February 22nd:

The Synthesizer Academy – <blockquote>Learn all about synthesis with our free synthesizer tutorials and lessons.</blockquote>
Compilers – What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations –
ESP8266: A $5 microcontroller with wi-fi that runs Python | Hacker News –
An open source alternative to AnyOrigin –
Pyvot 0.1.2 Documentation — Pyvot 0.1.2 documentation –

February 20, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for February 18th through February 20th

These are my links for February 18th through February 20th:

Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (2013) | Hacker News –
Making Your Code Citable · GitHub Guides –
Zenodo –
The Winnower | Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds –
555 timer teardown: inside the world’s most popular IC – Current mirror circuit. The current on the right copies the current on the left.
A common use of a current mirror is to replace resistors. As explained earlier, resistors inside ICs are both inconveniently large and inaccurate. It saves space to use a cur
On Marrying the Wrong Person | The Book of Life – <blockquote>On Marrying the Wrong Person – The Book of Life is the 'brain' of The School of Life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence.
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January 11, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for January 10th through January 11th

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

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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