The Weekly Weird - 2020-01-31
- How much is high-frequency trading worth? About $5B
- I would never have predicted that biological viruses were written in LISP and, as such, all end in ))))))))))))). Is CRISPR just the equialent of MOV then?
- Semi-related, from the humans-gonna-human department: Millions watch live streaming of hospital construction in Wuhan.
- Ars Technica summarizes how they function with no physical office. My personal take: all-remote is OK, all-in person is better (for the work), a mix is a goddamn disaster.
- But is it "faster than C?"
- I barely know the words in this article, much less enough of the subject matter to comment but 5nm and 3nm processes are coming.
- Kind of depressing but also kind of fascinating look at the process of "viatication". Predicting the future is hard.
- I could not love this more: It is a lovely day and you are a horrible digital goose.
- From the Jepsen review of the most recent etcd: distributed locking is hard.
- This is a tumblr page with screenshots of a twitter thread that made me laugh so loud I woke up three cats. It's about ceiling fans.
- Calculating probability is straightforward but that usually doesn't generalize to useful intuitions in everyday life. Here's a nice collection of probability facts and some hn comments with more.
- "Commercial space station" is a real headline. It's the future!