Things tagged “todo”

forty-two things tagged “todo”

A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM

Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…

A Command-Line Murder Mystery!

By Noah Veltman who appears to have impeccable gums.

An Ingredient Parser using TensorFlow

Really cool stuff. Trained on the New York Times ingredients corpus (large 13.5MB CSV) and turns this ingredients = [ "3 large melons", "5 1/2 cups water", "2 cups flour", ] into this [ { "name": "melons", "unit": None, "qty": 3.0 }, { "name": "water", "unit": "cups"…

The Quantum Technology Ecosystem – Explained

The Best Things of 2021

The Best Albums: Pitchfork, Rolling Stone The Best Graphic Novels: New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian The Best Movies: New York Times, Empire, The New Yorker I’ll cache and smush these soon.…

The Art of Node

by maxogden

The Art of Node An introduction to Node.js This document is intended for readers who know at least a little bit of a couple of things: a scripting language like JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. If you aren’t a programmer yet then it is probably easier to start by reading JavaScript for Cats. :c…

BSD for Linux Users

Type<Challenge[]> is set of Challenges around the Type System in TypeScript

Learn Blockchains by Building One

Parrots, The Universe, and Everything

A lecture at UCSB by Douglas Adams (RIP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc…

The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done

By Michael Dearing. Couldn’t find any video and not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek (like the “48 Laws of Power”.) The distortions are: Personal Exceptionalism “I am special.” Dichotomous Thinking “X is sh*t. Y is genius.” Correct Overgeneralization “I see two dots and draw the right line.” Blank-C…

Things Caches Do

How to Implement a Programming Language in JavaScript

A Guide to BSD for Linux People

“Calling Bullshit” is a free online course that helps you “detect and defuse” Bullshit when you encounter it.

Our learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to: Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet. Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it. Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bulls…

How Big is Too Big for JSON?

From over 10 years ago (I’m sorting through my old bookmarks). A single object looks like this: { "ACCTOUNT_NUMBER":"1234567890", "CUSTOMER_NAME":"ACME Products and Services, Inc.", "ADDRESS":"123 Main Street", "CITY":"Albuquerque", "STATE":"NM", "ZIP":"87101-1234" } He test…

How Hashes Really Work

Real Programmers Don’t Use PASCAL

by Ed Post, Copyright (c) 1982

Back in the good old days – the “Golden Era” of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called “Real Men” and “Quiche Eaters” in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that…

How to Write a Shell in C

About as ‘essential’ as it gets if you want to appreciate a tool you work with every day. (Cached)…

A Custom “Linux Router, Firewall and IDS Appliance”

The focus of this project is to build a super reliable, durable, and stable network device from tried and tested tech. This is not a project for pushing the limits or testing out flashy new stacks. This affinity for ‘boring’ technology will reflect on most of the choices made here, from the hardwar…

“In The Ocean”

A documentary about the avant garde music in NYC. Features Glass, Reich, Cage, Zappa, and a bunch of dissatisfied viewers in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0NwiTHIhGM…

Dorothy Counts

04 September, 1957 Dorothy Counts, the first and at the time only black student to enroll in the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School in Charlotte (NC), is mocked by protestors on her first day of school. Bystanders threw rocks and screamed at Dorothy to go back to where she came from. The…