November 2018 Archive
1201.
Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award (medium.com)
1202.
New Algorithm Solves Cake-Cutting Problem (2016) (quantamagazine.org)
1203.
For Autistic Boys, the NYC Subway Is Actually Soothing (nytimes.com)
1204.
Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (2013) (alangrow.com)
1205.
Cameroon’s President takes Swiss vacations as his country grapples with crises (wsj.com)
1206.
Software Checklist (2014) (solipsys.co.uk)
1207.
“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998) (web.mit.edu)
1208.
Learning to Dress: Synthesizing Human Dressing Motion via Reinforcement Learning (cc.gatech.edu)
1209.
Why one of America’s richest states is also its poorest (economist.com)
1210.
China Rules – The Land That Failed to Fail (nytimes.com)
1211.
Application for Fixed Satellite Service by SpaceX (fcc.report)
1212.
Nitrux – Powered by Linux, KDE Plasma 5, Qt and Nomad Desktop (nxos.org)
1213.
And Monads for All: The State Monad (rcardin.github.io)
1214.
Elon Musk: The Recode interview (recode.net)
1215.
Why intel processors draw more power than expected: TDP and Turbo explained (anandtech.com)
1216.
Amazon DynamoDB encrypts all customer data at rest (aws.amazon.com)
1217.
Show HN: Group video chat with no signups or downloads (itshello.co)
1218.
AWS App Mesh – Service Mesh for Microservices on AWS (aws.amazon.com)
1219.
LegoOS: Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation [pdf] (usenix.org)
1220.
Formalizing 100 Theorems (cs.ru.nl)
1221.
The Pontoon Bridges That Carry Millions at Kumbh Mela (theatlantic.com)
1222.
Outlier Detection Techniques (2010) [pdf] (archive.siam.org)
1223.
AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance (aws.amazon.com)
1224.
F.D.A. Plans to Seek a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes (nytimes.com)
1225.
What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle (bloombergquint.com)
1226.
Antidepressant withdrawal: reviewing the paper behind the headlines (nationalelfservice.net)
1227.
Smoking Banana Peels Is the Greatest Drug Hoax of All Time (atlasobscura.com)
1228.
Pixel 3 Review (anandtech.com)
1229.
Algorithms Designed to Fight Poverty Can Actually Make It Worse (scientificamerican.com)
1230.
New Proof Shows Infinite Curves Come in Two Types (quantamagazine.org)