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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February 11, 2016 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Bookmarks for February 10th through February 11th

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

LIGO Scientific Collaboration – The science of LSC research –
Physics – Viewpoint: The First Sounds of Merging Black Holes – <blockquote>Gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes have been detected, setting the course for a new era of observational astrophysics.</blockquote>
Mandelbox – <blockquote>Gallery and information on 3d Mandelbox fractal, similar to the Mandelbrot set and the Mandelbulb.
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Aerodynamic · mxs –

December 12, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

December 12, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

December 9, 2015 by Chris on Web Bookmarks

Eat. Sleep. Guitar. –
Digital Speaker Calibration Software | Sonaworks –
Most violence in the world is motivated by personal morality – Quartz – <blockquote>What motivates someone to be violent? This is a question many people are asking in the wake of the recent mass shootings in California. Most explanations tend to revolve around the core assumption that violence is wrong. If someone is violent, something must be broken in their moral psychology—they are intrinsically evil, they lack self-control,…</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