The Quest for Randomness » American Scientist
For example, suppose we were interested in the randomness of the following sequence: 314159265358979323846264338327950288419716...
Hasnain says:
Reasons you should read this article:
1. It's a great perspective on randomness
2. It's by Scott Aaronson.
3. Refer to 2.
Meet Mellow, the smart sous-vide machine.
Mellow is a sous-vide machine that takes orders through your smartphone and keeps food cold until it’s the exact time to start cooking. Tell it what to do, teach it what you like, and it'll do its best to make your life simpler.
Hasnain says:
I still haven't tried sous-vide but this looks really exciting.
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:58:32+0000
Space Monkey | Beyond the Cloud
Store all of your music, movies, photos, and documents in the cloud and never have to worry about losing anything ever again. The future of data storage is here.
Hasnain says:
"It’s a shame Go didn’t exist when Space Monkey started. We’re very lucky to have it now."
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:56:13+0000
My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player - Andrew Kelley
Over the past few years, I have been slowly but surely building my own music player. It's been a wild ride. The codebase has radically changed several times, but is always converging on a better music listening experience.
Project Naptha
Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.
Hasnain says:
I rarely install browser addons or extensions - after seeing this, however, I'm wondering what took the world so long to get this. This is amazing.
Posted on 2014-04-23T04:44:30+0000
Results of the GitHub Investigation
Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner. We took these claims seriously and launched a full, independent, third-party investigation. The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against…
Hasnain says:
GitHub loses one of their co-founders. Ouch.
(TPW's take on things: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hello-immersive-computing.html)
Posted on 2014-04-21T20:22:43+0000
Is the Toilet Free?
Is the Toilet Free? Callum Jefferies April 16, 20140 commentsA few of us Many have been working on a side project that we’ve aptly named Is the Toilet Free? Its purpose to provide an at-desk indication of whether a toilet is free in an effort to remedy that laborious walk to the loo only to find tha…
The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance
Her claim of being
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"Although Cassie’s frauds had caused his bank to collapse and decimated his personal wealth, he studied her skeptically through the bars of her cell. “You’ve ruined me,” he said, “but I’m not so sure yet you are a fraud.” To this day the full extent of Cassie’s spoils remains unknown—some historians believe that many victims declined to come forward—but the most commonly cited sum is $633,000, about $16.5 million in today’s dollars"
Posted on 2014-04-21T04:24:01+0000
Love and fire
Love and Fire: In Virginia's rural Accomack County, a troubled romance was behind a string of 77 arsons. wapo.st/arson
Hasnain says:
"Tonya and Charlie’s relationship had become one of two love stories.
Either, as Charlie says, he loved her so much that he had been willing to burn up a county because he thought it would make her happy. Or, as Tonya grew to believe, he loved her too much to let her be free while he went to prison alone."
Posted on 2014-04-21T04:13:18+0000
Meet the Bag Man: How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money
How some college football players are bought, in the words of a man who delivers the money.
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"Now let me ask you, who do you think is more important to this team winning next season? Him with his $50,000 getting bathrooms painted in the basketball arena, or what I do with not even a quarter of that much money?""
Posted on 2014-04-21T03:56:26+0000