August 2020 Archive
1501.
‘DiceKeys’ creates a master password for life with one roll (wired.com)
1502.
Microsoft Surface Duo – Dual-screen Android phone (theverge.com)
1503.
Artificial Intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning won't fix it (arxiv.org)
1504.
A flutter in time: Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect (economist.com)
1505.
Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund? (institutionalinvestor.com)
1506.
Blissymbols (en.wikipedia.org)
1507.
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II (krebsonsecurity.com)
1508.
Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (1994) [pdf] (autometer.de)
1509.
What's Going On with Intel? (twitter.com)
1510.
Git: Deletion of merged branches taken beyond shell hacks (github.com)
1511.
Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms (nytimes.com)
1512.
Python Textbook as a Jupyter Notebook (github.com)
1513.
A more detailed, colorful map (blog.google)
1514.
Writing a Lisp to x86-64 compiler
1515.
Facebook agrees to pay France €106M in back taxes (bbc.co.uk)
1516.
Metaplane – A metadata catalog for modern data teams (metaplane.dev)
1517.
Casio FX-880P Personal Computer Teardown (neil.computer)
1518.
Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org)
1519.
As above, so below, part 2. Bare metal Rust generics (ecorax.net)
1520.
Old salt mine is the first emission-free compressed air energy facility (2019) (cbc.ca)
1521.
Mon Valley communities test “time credits”, a new form of currency (wesa.fm)
1522.
Scientists build army of a million microrobots that fit inside hypodermic needle (cnet.com)
1523.
What I Learned from the Worst Novelist in the English Language (newrepublic.com)
1524.
Predictions as a Substitute for Reviews (acesounderglass.com)
1525.
Epic Games is also suing Google over Fortnites removal from the Play Store (theverge.com)
1526.
Using, Understanding, and Unraveling the OCaml Language (caml.inria.fr)
1527.
Intel Progress on Their “MOS” Modified Linux Kernel Running Lightweight Kernels (phoronix.com)
1528.
Debian turns 27 (bits.debian.org)
1529.
The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film (leejo.github.io)
1530.
Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951) (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)