The Weekly Weird - 2014-09-05
- The Systemd cabal has been doing some thinking on what linux distributions will look like in the future when systemd frees them from that pesky free will thing. about. http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html
- Give this thing a thesaurus and it can replace sports commentators completely: http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/08/intelligent-system-creates-descriptive.html#ixzz3BlxaGQ8a
- We're going to have to name a room "Typex" now. http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/enigma039s-secret-twin
- From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong department: http://www.zdnet.com/nigeria-launches-new-biometric-id-card-brought-to-you-by-mastercard-7000033133/
- If you liked visualized sorting algorithms you'll love: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/03/visualizing-garbage-collection-algorithms/
- MIT has their ATLAS robot generating and using good depth maps with only the stereo cameras (no active LIDAR like most fancy robots). Start counting down to when we can get one of these bad boys in the datacenter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRDp13cKm4