musings from the sleep deprived

c’mon feel the noise. girls, rock your boys…

Didn’t have as much time this week for reading/research. Chaos reigns supreme, it seems…

• Soviet Space Cannons! (popularmechanics)
• That there is a big stone. (bloomberg)
• Do good manners matter in software development? (peerj)
• Aircraft eject at 780mph. (F15einfo)

I read, you read, we all read for…. ok, that didn’t work as well as I might have liked. Here are some links:

• Mario for AI research! (vice)
• Now we’re talking. Smartwatch that doesn’t break the aesthetic. (fossil) and review (arstechnica)
• This is pretty hilarious. Command line bullshittery. (blog)
• I loves me some meteors. One in Bangkok and one in Poland (guardian)
• Naturally occuring nuclear reactor. (medium)
• Data Scientist interview. Interesting views on data science. (blog)
• This has interesting potential. “Superman fends off alien invasion” game. (polygon)
• Great discussion in “near layman” terms about quantum/classical physics. (guardian)
• Coordination Avoidance in Distributed Databases (thesis)
• A love letter to science (nytimes)
• Do I hate Quicken enough to go CLI? (ledger)
• Maybe when I am a gojillionnaire. (arstechnica)

This week’s reading…

• The language used by climate scientists and their skeptics. (arstechnica)
• Recreational Math is important! (nytimes)
• Tech Giants are the Walking Dead (wired)
• I’m *keenly* interested to see where this goes (polygon)
• Screen UIs in the Martian (territory studio)
• The first keylogger! (arstechnica)
• Gegenschein! (skyandtelescope)
• The most prolific wikipedia editor. (priceonomics)
• Very cool bedsheets. (etsy)
• Freeman Dyson is the Man. (thereg)
• REM sleep on demand (berkeley)

And here we go again with another week’s worth of fun reading…

• International border visible from space (nasa)
• Hilarious generic tech recruiter letter (blog)
• TWO player bomb defusing game. Lovely idea. (arstechnica)
• Math is hard, mmmm’kay? (nature)
• Fallout4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. videos (youtube)
• I’m afraid I don’t have anything to say about this. (guardian)
• Elephant genetics! (discover)
• Gene patents (arstechnica)
• View the Milky Way in many wavelengths! (chromoscope)
• Android TV from nVidia (arstechnica)
• Vulnerabilities in bitcoin (motherboard)