December 15, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for December 15th

December 15, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Medicine’s Burning Question – The New Yorker – <blockquote>Is inflammation really the key to chronic disease? The debate over the latest cure-all obsession.</blockquote>
Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work –
BFF @ SoundCloud | ThoughtWorks –
The Bash Academy – <blockquote>A complete guide for newcomers and advanced users to correct usage and deep understanding of the bash shell language.</blockquote>
Kindle Maps –

December 4, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for December 4th

TrackMeNot –
ADNAUSEAM – Clicking Ads So You Don’t Have To –
Chris Martens – I investigate how to use mathematical tools, such as proof theory, to better understand and create interactive rule systems. I place an emphasis on games and computational creativity, but I am broadly interested in modeling computational and scientific sys
10 Top DAW Controller Apps : Ask.Audio –
SEORCH – OnPage SEO Tool – Search Engine Optimization –
An Introduction to Content Security Policy – HTML5 Rocks – <blockquote>Mitigate the risk of cross-site scripting attacks by whitelisting trusted origins with a Content Security Policy.</blockquote>
The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? – <blockquote>
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November 16, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Anyone Can Learn To Code an LSTM-RNN in Python (Part 1: RNN) – i am trask –
The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: a critical reappraisal of Julian Jaynes’ hypothesis –
NIMH » Antipsychotics: Taking the Long View – <blockquote>Antipsychotics help people through the crisis of acute psychosis, but the long-term management of chronic mental illness is another matter. It appears that what we currently call “schizophrenia” may comprise disorders with quite different trajectories. For some people, remaining on medication long-term might impede a full return to wellness. For others, discontinuing medication can be disastrous.</blockquote>
Does Long-Term Treatment of Schizophrenia With Antipsychotic Medications Facilitate Recovery? –

November 12, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

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>

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