The Weekly Weird - 2015-06-12
- I was beaten to this one already but: A computer is a clock with benefits: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
- This is just Skynet propaganda, robots are still terrifying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo
- http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/darpa-robotics-challenge-amazing-moments-lessons-learned-whats-next
- From the "I don't really understand this but it sounds cool!" department: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/will-computers-redefine-roots-math
- A great article on how Norway ended up not regretting becoming a gigantic oil exporter (and a nice little human interest piece to boot) http://web.archive.org/web/20090831100821/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html
- Ok, at least this one little bit of openssl is good: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/\~appel/papers/verified-hmac.pdf
- What I really want is computers to have more access to my brain:
- http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/flexible-circuit-has-been-injected-living-brains-180955525/?no-ist
- http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/injectable-electronics-give-neurology-a-shot-to-the-brain
- More rowhammer: http://xuanwulab.github.io/2015/06/09/Research-report-on-using-JIT-to-trigger-RowHammer/
- An entirely open-sourced processor architecture. Old, patents are expiring and not going to set the performance world on fire but because there's no royalty it's "disposable computing at the 'free toy inside' level"
- http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/647636/cf704384f58765fa/
- http://0pf.org/j-core.html
- Always reassuring when the security guys can't keep their own stuff secure: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/stepson-of-stuxnet-stalked-kaspersky-for-months-tapped-iran-nuke-talks/
- And more from Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/duqu_20.html
- And I haven't read this but the names involved tell me I will: http://dankaminsky.com/2015/06/11/talking-with-stewart/
- Nothing earth-shattering but nice to see actual data instead of infographics: http://toddwschneider.com/posts/mortgages-are-about-math-open-source-loan-level-analysis-of-fannie-and-freddie/
- unusual and physical methods for finding prime numbers: http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/unusual.htm
- A screenshot of Mirage running on kvm: http://ibin.co/24yZp6GhHCFU
- This post brought to you by my @#$% cat
