The Weekly Weird - 2014-10-17
- Are S, S, and L your least favorite letters yet? Here's a good, somewhat visual explanation of the most recent POODLE attack: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html
- Diamonds are Forever. Err, I mean Flammable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWpm6_Y7ASI
- A fairly detailed overview of how Inmarsat was able to track the missing Malaysian Airlines flight from pretty scant information: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FNAV%2FS037346331400068Xa.pdf&code=207845fc62f33d7ae6bbfbf916a408e1
- Nvidia plus infiniband lets a GPU in one machine talk to a GPU in another with \~2us latency. Neat. http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/benchmarking-gpudirect-rdma-on-modern-server-platforms/
- Want to play with Watson? http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/services-catalog.html
- "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," but why 10? http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm
- tilde club is awesome: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf