The Weekly Weird - 2016-06-24
- So, uh, good job UK. Obviously it's not really but the naive math puts the Pound's fall at 14 standard deviations.
- I love this paper. It turns out that Netflix' cache nodes participate in BGP and are enumerable. From that you can back out quite a lot of information about data flows. "Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN".
- Let me know when there's a chip with over nine thousand cores.
- Code format is important, formatters make it easy but how awesome would it be if you could just use the AST to format directy?
- Ever wonder how astronomers get that 'main sequence' chart? Here's how.
- I think we all know that historical swordfighting looks nothing like fantasy movies make it look, but I didn't realize quite how quickly most fights end.
- I can't quite believe that a six-engined, double-fuselaged megajet will actually exist, much less actually launch a payload. If they find a way to duct tape a Dream Chaser to it as has been proposed, expect to see a Gulfstream version of it in a decade.
- A heartwarming story of international bureaucracy, semantic overloading and power symbols.
- An overview of the possibility of faster-than-light travel/communication based on current science.
- "Bayesian reasoning implicated in some mental disorders".
- "The strange case of Mark Zuckerberg fan art". NSFSanity.