The Weekly Weird - 2017-08-04
- Truth is stranger than steampunk: The west side cowboys.
- This is glorious. Dolphin stutters because the hardware implementation reconfigures instantly and gpu shaders don't. So obvioulsy you just re-implement the entire graphics pipeline as ... shaders.
- Cracking the Enigma machine with neural nets.
- BTC-e was always a suspicious place, nice to know it was a fraud of international scale.
- What democracy was missing was distributed proof of work.
- Illustrated sorting algorithms are always popular, here's one with colors.
- Thankfully, this tale of machine-learning-optimized pornography is fiction. For now.
- This has been true for a while but it's amazing how inefficient 'scalable' solutions often are. It turns out imaginary scaling needs is just premature optimization wearing a hat.
- This is true for chips as well, we're nowhere near the fundamental efficiency limits.
- Drone. Grenade. 500,000x ROI.
- Sharing files at FL350.
- I have a soft spot for Zero Hedge, you've gotta love folks who've predicted 1,837 of the last 2 recessions. There's a three part ... zoological research expedition on their contributors over at FT: 1 2 3.
- Do you need a randomized medieval city? You bet I do!
- Even More Serialization Formats: CBOR.
- A self portrait. By a Boeing 787.