musings from the sleep deprived

I once again find myself regretting that I can’t seem to commit to writing anything full length. Yet another nanowrimo gone with just a couple chapters completed. Or at least attempted. So I’m back to just trying to do some writing as often as I can, even if it is an open format and not specifically fiction or whatever. Read more

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)

Nomnomnom… food for the mind.

• A somewhat negative review of Fallout 4. *cries* (arstechnica)
• Breathtakingly gorgeous. <3 nature. (guardian)
• How do we tolerate spicy food? (discover)
• Northern Cygnus over Tibet. (skyandtelescope)
• Carl Sagan (smithsonian)
• Hardest logic puzzle ever (nautil.us)
• Yay! More from Randall Munroe! (gatesnotes)
• OOOooo, story idea. (experiment)
• Rubber hand illusion. (newscientist)
• Reading dead scrolls. (newyorker)
• Publishing industry dark matter. (techcrunch)

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)

Some new links for the week. Let James Brown be your guide!

• Catch the biggest waves! (theatlantic)
• What *really* drains your battery? (blog)
• Very interesting. IT ideas that must die. (highscalability)
• The most popular MOOCs (onlinecoursereport)
• Crypto-entrepeneur. (arstechnica)
• Fuel cell cars getting closer. (forbes)
• VC level analysis of the EMC/Dell deal. (a16z)
• I had no idea this was happening. Wow. (fastcodesign)
• beer or wine? (bbc)
• Yay for Prison Architect!! (slate)
• Abandoned Games? Maybe not. (arstechnica)
• NOAA is fudging data, says Rep.Lamar Smith (arstechnica)

This week’s links, courtesy of yo momma’s tasty fried chicken…

• An Amazon response to the Times piece. (medium)
• Technology failure impacts visualized. (ieee)
• Good thing this new fangled thing is more secure. (arstechnica)
• Home automation tinkering (wsj)
• Identity online (about.me)
• I have no idea what to think about this. (bbc)
• Some thoughts on crytography (blog)
• Maybe we are mermaids. (nautil.us)
• $100M in controller design research. Yessssssss. (polygon)
• Finally, the LUCK video from Bethesda. (polygon)
• Drone disabling guns. (popularmechanics)
• Einstein and non-locality. (scientificamerican)

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)