December 2019 Archive
1531.
Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out (bloomberg.com)
1532.
What it would take to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air than we put in (nautil.us)
1533.
A Robot That Explains Its Actions (spectrum.ieee.org)
1534.
1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design (resobscura.blogspot.com)
1535.
Amazon RDS Proxy for AWS Lambda (aws.amazon.com)
1536.
Particle Filter (leimao.github.io)
1537.
V8 Release v8.0 (v8.dev)
1538.
In praise of property-based testing (increment.com)
1539.
Our Tesla Model 3 Suffered a Failure While Parked (caranddriver.com)
1540.
Economists’ projections of interest rates and unemployment have proved too high (wsj.com)
1541.
Two Las Vegas Men Plead Guilty in U.S. Criminal Streaming Piracy Case (torrentfreak.com)
1542.
America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (2008) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1543.
You have to follow the recipe (theoutline.com)
1544.
Infosys settles with California over alleged visa scam, tax evasion (mercurynews.com)
1545.
Privacy or Data, a Convenient False Dichotomy (0x65.dev)
1546.
A few comments on ‘age’ (neilmadden.blog)
1547.
How to Build a Remote Team: Resources and Advice from Remote Companies (remotehub.io)
1548.
Machine Learning Christmas Calendar (ml.christmas)
1549.
How Complex Modern Headlights Can Be (jalopnik.com)
1550.
An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects (github.com)
1551.
Move to the Big City (2018) (sivers.org)
1552.
Federation is the Worst of all Worlds (2018) (fieldnotes.resistant.tech)
1553.
Commit messages are not titles (2015) (antirez.com)
1554.
San Francisco supervisors opposing bill to increase housing density (sfexaminer.com)
1555.
How to Make Toast: Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science (2001) (cs.brandeis.edu)
1556.
Natural language isn’t just English [pdf] (faculty.washington.edu)
1557.
There’s No Winter Break from ‘Publish or Perish’ (nytimes.com)
1558.
DARPA head resigns, moving on to industry (defensenews.com)
1559.
Boom Supersonic (YC W16) XB-1 Fuselage Construction Underway (linkedin.com)
1560.
Dating of bones from Indonesia confirm Homo erectus roamed planet for 1.8M years (theguardian.com)