The Weekly Weird - 2018-06-08
- Ok, this is legit amazing. Tracking saccades to trick you into thinking you're walking straight. I hope Peter Watts' prescience doesn't continue with some other theories he might find familiar.
- This one is potentially big enough news that you've probably read it already: air and electricity goes in, gasoline comes out at $4/gallon. The full paper is ungated. There are some concerns about the research being funded by oil companies but the fact that there's an actual demo plant and not just some diagrams behind it is impressive. Stick one of these next to every solar farm in the middle of nowhere and get a global logistics and delivery system for free!
- This is a very long exploration of CRDTs: Data Laced with History with some HN comments.
- What's the state of IPv6 for carrier networks? Complicated.
- Remember, it's nothing until it's 5σ but here we go again: did we find a new fundamental particle?
- om nom nom whoooosh.
- The continuing analysis of why the subways are slow continues, this time using countdown clock data.
- Easily the most scifi headline this week: Can a robot be divine?
- If you want to know how machine learning works, you could do worse than Ashi Krishnan's overview of the subject.
- This is a neat load balancer at the semi-unusual OSI L4.
- We've gone the full gamut in how to store browser data over the years. From weird text files to local sql to custom dataflow implementations.
- I assume this will discard half your monitoring datapoints.
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mainis usually a function. Usually. - Yet another tiny pc board with real SATA, up squared.