The Weekly Weird - 2017-05-05
- If you ever think "man, I don't live in the future", watch four paralyzed people compete in an exoskeleton race. Or a race entirely controlled by brain computer interfaces.
- Or eliminating HIV in mice via CRISPR.
- The map is not the territory, especially if your map is the mean and std dev. Look at all the pretty charts with the same aggregate statistical properties.
- If you're really clever, you can exploit statistical properties to make computers hallucinate.
- Despite diverging drastically from, you know, english, this whole asicboost segwit bitcoin ... thing is kind of entertaining. I mean, internet goldbug libertarians vs patent law? Pass the popcorn!
- Security:
- Remember, your 2FA is only as strong as the second factor. If that second factor relies on a telephone switching system from 1975, you're going to have a bad time.
- You know this Intel AMT vulnerability is scary but it's not exactly surprising. Folks have been worrying about BMC security for years. Who would have thought putting a remote interface on your pci bus would end poorly.
- This week in the internet of things that really shouldn't be on the internet: pacemakers.
- A deep dive into CockroachDB's SQL layer
- Be sure not to miss Aphyr's "Anna Concurrenina" keynote for more CockroachDB.
- Writing a time series database from scratch and some commentary by someone who's done it before.
- Gil Tene posts a lengthy examination of the new LLVM-backed-JIT in Zing. Also pictures of birds.