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January

November 15, 2017

• Lamport and how Education works: The Coming Software Apocalypse | Computing Education Blog good stuff on formal verification and the missing uses in Software industry. Good discussion in the comments too.

  November 14, 2017

• Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases uses the immutable read mode of sqlite to make reads faster and secure against injection attacks

  January 3, 2017

• Brian Eno - Wikipedia
• oblique programming strategies; ordered “Creative Whack Pack” by Roger von Oech after reading about this.
• Harbour · Home retro programming language! OSS implementation of xBase PL.

January 5, 2017

• presocratics.org » Articles; scholarly articles on Hinduism and Sanskrit from Germany based Indian scholar Vishwa Adluri.

January 6, 2017

• Programming in the 21st Century; the writer of this popular and interesting blog is retiring this blog. It will be missed. Still a lot of good stuff to go back and read. Very much in the league of old Steve Yegge and Joel Spolsky.

January 8, 2017

• Breaking Away - Wikipedia; a movie set in Bloomington, IN.
• HEDAYAT, SADEQ v. Hedayat in India – Encyclopaedia Iranica

January 9, 2017

• The Emergent Task Planner™ - Dave Seah

January 10, 2017

• The mind-blowing AI announcement from Google that you probably missed.
• What Style Is That House? Visual Guides to Domestic Architectural Designs - 99% Invisible
• Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia
• Erasmus - Wikipedia

January 11, 2017

• Partially Derivative

January 12, 2017

• WebSVN - code - Rev 1916 - /

January 16, 2017

• A Flame Beneath The Ground

• [The Surprisingly Modern Tech Inside an Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy – News – Car and Driver

  Car and Driver Blog](http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-surprisingly-modern-tech-inside-an-amish-horse-drawn-buggy/)

January 18, 2017

• [Rethinkdb Postmortem

  Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421608)

• [Selecting a platform

  MutanatuM](http://mutanatum.com/posts/2017-01-12-Browser-FP-Head-to-Head.html)

January 21, 2017

• Pun Intended: BuckleScript: a significant new OCaml to JavaScript compiler

January 22, 2017

• Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

January 25, 2017

• 1.1 Billion Taxi Rides on kdb+/q & 4 Xeon Phi CPUs

• Shantideva - Wikipedia; via Serenity Prayer - Wikipedia

If there’s a remedy when trouble strikes, What reason is there for dejection? And if there is no help for it, What use is there in being glum?

January 28, 2017

• Google - Site Reliability Engineering

January 29, 2017

• If economists want to be trusted again, they should learn to tell jokes
• The 36 Questions That Lead to Love - The New York Times

February

February 1, 2017

• Passive house - Wikipedia

• [Blu Homes

  Modern, Green, Premium Prefab Modular Bay Area Homes](https://www.bluhomes.com/)

• Acre Designs Builds Smart, Sustainable, Zero Energy Homes
• What are some Youtube channels everyone should check out? : AskReddit

February 2, 2017

• [23 Lessons I Learned From Robert Greene On Strategy, Mastery And Power

  Thought Catalog](http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2017/02/23-lessons-i-learned-from-robert-greene-on-strategy-mastery-and-power/)

February 3, 2017

Finns and Finnish Native Americans:

• [Findians – The story of Finns’ distant cousins

  Yle Uutiset

  yle.fi](http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/findians__the_story_of_finns_distant_cousins/9087943)

• How Finnish immigrants battled racism to help build America

February 4, 2017

• [Care worker who rescued Nigerian ‘witch’ boy recreates photo for his first week of school

  The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-witch-boy-photo-anja-ringgren-loven-facebook-images-first-day-of-school-a7561581.html)

February 8, 2017

Interactive data analysis tools that can talk to multiple data backends via:

• [Make Your Company Data Driven

  Redash](https://redash.io/)

• Zeppelin
• OpenTrials – All the Data, on All the Trials, Linked
• Metabase
• airbnb/superset: Superset is a data exploration platform designed to be visual, intuitive, and interactive

About Swift, an interview with Chris Lattner:

• Accidental Tech Podcast: 205: People Don’t Use the Weird Parts

February 9, 2017

• International Dunhuang Project: North American Silk Road Collections: A Mañjuśrī’s prayer sheet from Dunhuang in the Cincinnati Art Museum

February 10, 2017

• victorloux/practical-typography: How to design printed material that doesn’t look rubbish
• A framework for how environment contributes to cancer risk - Hochberg - 2017 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library

• [George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?

  The Public Domain Review](http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/02/08/george-washington-a-descendant-of-odin/)

February 11, 2017

• [In 1912, Mohan Singh Was Billed as “The Only Hindu Flyer in the World”

  Daily Planet

  Air & Space Magazine](http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/mohan-singh-aviator-of-mystery-180962015/)

• The Tao Of Backup – you can never be confident about your backup situtation.

February 14, 2017

• Mellified man - Wikipedia :| yikes!

February 15, 2017

• Photos: India’s incredible shrinking Bene Israel community, through an outsider’s lens

February 16, 2017

• The Hadoop Ecosystem Table – good place to design your Hadoop bingo card.
• wallix/awless: The Mighty CLI for AWS – it will be more interesting/actually useable if they turn off stats collection by default.
• Global Infrastructure Partners Gets Big Returns In Sleepy Sector - Bloomberg

February 17, 2017

• [The Ohio River Offense

  NFL.com](http://www.nfl.com/ohioriveroffense)

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Design Patterns for Humans™ - An ultra-simplified explanation
• Convert from JIRA text formatting to GitHub Flavored MarkDown and back again
• Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in.
• Star wars fable – an app developed using Fable.io, the F# -> JS compiler
• A project exemplifying client / server communications with Monix. – a scala library
• Electron Golf – “video game by nudging SVG elements around the page at 60fps using the Elm programming language.”
• Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously) – something I wanted to write myself!
• What’s the best city you’ve ever visited? : AskReddit

February 18, 2017

• Dwitter – cool javascript animation in 140 characters or less.

February 20, 2017

• Haskell for all: The Curry-Howard correspondence between programs and proofs

February 21, 2017

• PALM GENERATOR

February 23, 2017

• [This Is What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike

  Outside Online](https://www.outsideonline.com/2125031/what-happens-your-body-thru-hike)

• Argumatronic - – Haskell book author.

February 24, 2017

• Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak’s Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System

February 25, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• [WIP] Working sample of a Suave + Fable + Elmish project with hot reloading
• Source Code for O’Reilly Kotlin Course
• A curated list of awesome Kotlin related stuff Inspired by awesome-java.
• A Pandoc filter for including code from source files
• Go package for downloading large files from the internet
• gchunt is a tool to identify and keep in check GC usage of D projects.
• Repository for the book “Crafting Interpreters”
• Compositional vector graphics in Scala / Scala.JS
• Hover.css - A collection of CSS3 powered hover effects

February 26, 2017

• Comments

February 27, 2017

• The mysteries of Bengaluru’s famed Gavi Gangadhareshwara temple  - Livemint
• Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success – Brain Pickings
• Bruce Lee - The Lost Interview (Video Restoration Proof of Concept) on Vimeo
• Seeing Theory

March

March 1, 2017

• Why Some Cars Have Gas Tank Fillers On The Left Or The Right
• Machine learning could finally crack the 4,000-year-old Indus script – Ochen
• The Myth and Magic of California Style - Racked

March 2, 2017

• [Mindful Observance of Learning is The Yardstick of Scholarship

  Prekshaa](http://prekshaa.in/mindful-observance-of-learning-is-the-yardstick-of-scholarship-max-mueller-kalidasa-shakuntala-sheldon-pollock-rhys-davids-monier-williams-western-scholarship-sanskrit-venkatachala-sastri-ana/)

• The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi - The New Yorker

March 3, 2017

• Ten reasons why you must visit Western Ghats in India

March 5, 2017

• John Byron Kuhner

March 6, 2017

• Habits of highly mathematical people – Medium

• [What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer

  Read the Tea Leaves](https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/)

• Why you’re (not) failing at your new job - Code Without Rules
• Introduction

March 7, 2017

• Is Willpower a Finite Resource, or a Myth?

March 8, 2017

• [‘But what about the railways …?’ ​​The myth of Britain’s gifts to India

  World news

  The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts?CMP=share_btn_tw)

• Shashi Tharoor - Dr Shashi Tharoor’s powerful answer to Sky News… “ the Emperor has no clothes & ones his ancestors wore were thanks to unacknowledged colonial labor “

March 12, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Install NixOS on top of any existing Linux distribution without rebooting
• Everything you need to know to get the job.
• Build and orchestrate your development environments with LXD - a.k.a. Vagrant is Too Heavy™
• Swift Development Environment based on VS Code
• Open source Swift libraries for modern server software on macOS and Linux.
• Type-safe, compiled Jinja-like templates for Rust
• A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
• Slides from talks that I give
• Minimal and clean examples of machine learning algorithms implemented in Julia
• lock-free persistent b-link tree, sympathetic to flash storage
• writing correct lock-free and distributed algorithms in Rust, assisted by TLA+
• Book and code: how to build and distribute applications in Dyalog APL
• Record Query - A tool for doing record analysis and transformation
• Globally installable Reason toolchain.

March 14, 2017

• Teach Yourself Computer Science

• Anton Chekhov: How to Become a Cultured Person – The Polymath Project – Medium

March 15, 2017

• [Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

  EconTalk

  Library of Economics and Liberty](http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.html)

• Ice Baby — National Geographic Magazine
• Introduction

March 16, 2017

• Why Complexity is Different
• CodePicnic

March 17, 2017

• [How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style

  Atlas Obscura](http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan)

March 18, 2017

• My Life Living “Midwestern Nice” - Thrillist
• Manna, Chapter 1, by Marshall Brain

March 19, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Yet another converter from Markdown to (HTML, LaTeX, Epub)
• Programming Models and Languages for Distributed Computation
• None
• Miki: Makefile Wiki
• Distributed SQL query engine for big data
• A black hole for Internet advertisements
• ‘Learn Better’ Book Shows How to Learn New Things - The Atlantic

March 20, 2017

• Distill – colah’s blog

March 21, 2017

• How I Became a Better Programmer
• Education of a Programmer – Medium
• SICP Support for DrRacket

March 22, 2017

• Seeing Theory
• Your calendrical fallacy is thinking…
• simple off-line blog utility

March 23, 2017

• The Killing of Shishupala - Magha
• trck: querying discrete time series with state machines — AdRoll
• nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/notes/paxos-code.html

March 24, 2017

• The End of the Universe as We Know It - The New Yorker
• Dr. R. L. Kashyap – Official Website of SAKSHI Trust This is in Jayanagara. Found him through references to Purdue professor and Pattern recognition pioneeer King Sun Fu Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition (Mathematics in Science and Engineering) 1, K. S. Fu - Amazon.com.

March 25, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Static site generator written in Rust
• Full resolution images of the O RLY book covers made by The Practical Dev
• Continually updated data science Python notebooks: Deep learning (TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe, Keras), scikit-learn, Kaggle, big data (Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS), matplotlib, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Python essentials, AWS, and various command lines.
• A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
• 2D graphics rendering experiments in rust.
• Slides and other materials for functional programming lectures ITMO university
• Discrete time series analytics for TrailDB
• Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
• A SICP Study Guide With Exercise Solutions in Guile & Emacs Lisp
• HTML5/EPUB3 version of SICP
• Code repository for Mastering Swift 3 published by Packt
• A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources

March 26, 2017

• Understanding “Taming the Meta Language” / frantic.im

March 27, 2017

• Empirical Software Engineering » American Scientist
• Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume

March 28, 2017

• [Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality

  Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-gaussian-correlation-inequality/)

March 29, 2017

• Flex
• From Data-Centric approach to JSON Coast-to-Coast design with Play-2.1 & ReactiveMongo - Mandubian Blog

• [Professor James Tobin (1918-2002)

  The Tobin Project](http://www.tobinproject.org/about/james-tobin)

• Beeminder

March 30, 2017

• The mysterious man who owns one solitary share in the unlisted Tata Sons — Quartz

March 31, 2017

• TISM - Wikipedia

Git repos that I found interesting this week

• April 2017 - Huge Update! Interactive, test-driven Python coding interview challenges (algorithms and data structures). Includes Anki Flashcards.
• Soulful docs for Swift & Objective-C
• Code and data for paper “Deep Photo Style Transfer”: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07511
• Analyze data from swim, bike and run activities
• A book about compiling Racket to x86-64 assembly
• The lcc retargetable ANSI C compiler
• ATS2 proofs of concept stuff
• Create useful .gitignore files for your project
• A curated collection of awesome OCaml tools, frameworks, libraries and articles.
• Binary I/O library for D Languge :dart:
• A Rust library for shelling out.
• MetaPost + ConTeXt rendition of Oliver Byrne’s “The first six books of the Elements of Euclid”
• Easily generate cross platform Swift framework projects from the command line
• A collaborative list of awesome swift resources. Feel free to contribute!
• Swift library for concurrency and reactive programming
• 📱 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift

April

April 3, 2017

• [Robert Cialdini on how persuasion works in business and politics (transcript)

  FT Alphaville](https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/04/03/2186724/podcast-robert-cialdini-on-how-persuasion-works-in-business-and-politics/)

• Education of a Programmer – Hacker Noon

• [Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface

  Bartosz Milewski’s Programming Cafe](https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/)

April 4, 2017

• [The Wonderful Allure of Tamil

  by Whitney Cox

  The New York Review of Books](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/23/wonderful-allure-of-tamil/)

• Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research – Denny’s Blog
• Upgrade your SSH keys! · blog.g3rt.nl
• Dick Gregory - Wikipedia

April 6, 2017

• /usr/sbin - “Type-Driven Development with Idris”

• [The Mathematics Behind Gerrymandering

  Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170404-gerrymandering-math-standard/)

April 7, 2017

• Gush: A stack based language eventually for genetic programming – DustyCloud Brainstorms
• South Indian Classical (Carnatic) Music Basics (Sarali, Janta, Alankaram), Geethams & Varnams Archive: Audio Music Class and Lessons
• Dialect Survey Results

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• “Meh, good enough” markdown to confluence convertor
• Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd
• c-mera C in Lisp
• Like unix ‘time’ command, but with repetitions, median, std deviation
• Scripting in D by using D
• jq for protobuf
• Lightweight latex-like language for authoring books
• A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM.
• A Neocities client written in Go
• Data workflow tool, like a “Make for data”
• A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
• James Gleick’s Chaos: The Software
• Effective Python: Source Code and Errata for the Book
• Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data.
• HTTPie + prompt_toolkit = an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting
• Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
• An embeddable comment engine for D
• None

April 11, 2017

• [A basic introduction to Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

  elisa freschi](http://elisafreschi.com/2017/04/10/a-basic-introduction-to-visi%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%adadvaita-vedanta/)

April 12, 2017

• Salon des Refusés: Dialectics for new computer science

April 14, 2017

• Joseph Heller’s Handwritten Outline for Catch-22 – Biblioklept
• Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historical Advisers - The Atlantic

April 15, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• A collection of algorithms, data structures and other useful information for competitive programming.
• Competitive Programmer’s Handbook
• Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible
• save/convert web pages to a single editable html file for offline archive/view/edit/play/whatever
• Elsa is a lambda calculus evaluator
• Sources of the sample applications of the Reactive Web Application book
• Automatic firewall rule orchestator.
• Your favourite language gets closer to bare meta.
• Sulong, a dynamic runtime for LLVM-based languages.
• Trillian implements a Merkle tree whose contents are served from a data storage layer, to allow scalability to extremely large trees.
• On top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese….
• “rsync for cloud storage” - Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
• Experimental deferred and unordered destruction library for C++
• Bollywood Affair: How Indian Cinema Arrived in the U.S.S.R.

April 16, 2017

• [The Gamma: Tools for open data-driven storytelling

  The Gamma](https://thegamma.net/)

April 17, 2017

• Survey: Habits of Talented Math Students - Curriculum Matters - Education Week
• Serious Jolt — Kerning Cultures

April 19, 2017

• Fluent interface - Wikipedia

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Maelstorm is a toolkit to help in writing toy Raft implementations, as a part of a distributed systems workshop by aphyr.
• Haskell Programming From First Principles - Follow-up Resources PDFs of various reference papers mentioned in the Haskell Programming Book
• A description of Jonathan Blow’s programming language, Jai
• Yet another implementation of crosspad using Js_of_OCaml.
• A C implementation of the Shen programming language
• Legal document to incorporate a cooperative in India (structured as a limited liability partnership)
• Animation engine for explanatory math videos
• C++ front/service proxy
• This repository contains the text for the Tiny Python 3.6 Notebook.
• Learning how to build a language on the BEAM
• Schminke is a language with an s-expression syntax, local type inference, and low-level operations [written in Haskell].
• C to Rust translator

April 23, 2017

• Bootleggers and Baptists - Wikipedia

April 24, 2017

• On Chinese Writing: Evolution how the chinese writing system evolved, an “outsider” perspective.
• Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision - The New Yorker

April 25, 2017

• Being A Developer After 40 – freeCodeCamp
• Here’s Why Juicero’s Press is So Expensive – Bolt Blog – The teardown.
• WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum: “Most of startup ideas are absolutely stupid”
• NFL Draft – nice visualisation.
• Sakshi Pratap – Cool visualisation projects!
• Handicap principle - Wikipedia

April 26, 2017

• MathBook XML an XML to write Math books in that compiles to LaTeX and HTML.

April 28, 2017

• A Better Way to Code – Mike Bostock – Medium a new D3 based system for exploratory programming.

April 29, 2017

• [Charlie Munger

  25iq](https://25iq.com/quotations/charlie-munger/), Quotes of.

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• A correct C11 parser written using Menhir and OCaml
• The Leon system for verification, synthesis, and more.
• Multi-Language Platform for Dynamic Programming Languages
• Awesome resources and other links related to the Ada programming language
• Markdown Presentations For Everyone on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.
• Links to slides from OpenVisConf 2017
• Dynamic bindings to the cimgui library (a c-api for IMGUI) for the D programming language
• A single-header ANSI C gui library
• MathBook XML
• The Definitive Guide to Elasticsearch
• Checked C is an extension of C that adds bounds checking to C. This repo contains the specification for the extension, test code, and samples.
• a Productive Parallel Programming Language
• A collection of useful Swift tools that are used in the Kickstarter apps.
• A GraphQL API created by reflection over a PostgreSQL schema.
• Functional Programming in Scala for Mortals
• Dealing with common type inference nuances in Scala

May

May 1, 2017

• Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding

May 2, 2017

• Programming: Ryzen is for Programmers
• This antique engineering marvel records spring breakup in Alaska like clockwork - Alaska Dispatch News

May 3, 2017

• Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions
• You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you - The Oatmeal

May 5, 2017

• John Muir - Wikipedia
• I’m Just Walkin’ - Walking every block of NYC

May 6, 2017

• So you still don’t understand Hindley-Milner? Part 1 - Amit’s Blog
• Georgy_K_Zhukov comments on How did the concept of the duel of honour come to be in 16th century France?

Git repos that I found interesting this week:

• Leetcode solutions
• Literature references for “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”
• None
• Prototype implementation of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) in Erlang.
• Basecamp Employee Handbook
• Template project for creating an InfoQ Mini-Book with Asciidoctor
• Learning Resources

May 7, 2017

• Why Hasn’t Native American Food Become Trendy? - The Atlantic
• Vue HN 2.0
• Improve your English using Youtube
• Improve your English using Youtube

May 8, 2017

• What is so ‘scientific’ about Sanskrit? #SeriousQuestion – Navin Kabra’s Blog
• Summer School: The simple marvels of the Erhardt-Perkins Offense - Big Blue View

• [How to Make Decisions like Ray Dalio

  25iq](https://25iq.com/2017/04/28/how-to-make-decisions-like-ray-dalio/)

• Ways to spread FP skills in your org: brown bags, guilds, dojos, secondments, and pairing.

May 10, 2017

• Karl Popper on The Line Between Science and Pseudoscience
• The Anthropic Sympathy of Platforms

• [Scrum makes you dumb

  Daniel Jones

  Pulse

  LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scrum-makes-you-dumb-daniel-jones)

• A biography of the Tamil language reveals its influence on Sanskrit and Hebrew — Quartz

May 11, 2017

• Kristin Neff Argues Self Compassion Works Better Than Self Esteem - The Atlantic

May 12, 2017

• [Probability Theory, Gambling and the Mahabharata

  Metaphorical Gooseberries](https://karatalaamalaka.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/probability-theory-gambling-and-the-mahabharata/)

May 14, 2017

• [Chris Arnade Photography

  Marge McLain Arnade](http://arnade.tumblr.com/post/35202537329/marge-mclain-arnade)

• [Pigeon Keepers of NYC

  Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/sets/72157625271382891/)

• [The 7 Laws of Training According to Dr. Fred Hatfield

  Breaking Muscle](https://breakingmuscle.com/learn/the-7-laws-of-training-according-to-dr-fred-hatfield)

• Favourite Downloads and Links
• Habba
• Handwritten books - Julia Evans

May 15, 2017

• Why We Are Self Publishing the Aviary Cookbook - Lessons From the Alinea Book.

May 16, 2017

• Reason is but a slave of passions as it always has been – Gene Expression

May 17, 2017

• [Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition

  Quillette](http://quillette.com/2017/05/17/bald-men-fighting-comb-arguments-classical-tradition/)

May 18, 2017

• Astonishing, rare images of the Vietnam War from the winning side

May 19, 2017

On designer W. A. Dwiggins:

• The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins - Atlas Obscura
• Dwiggins: The Designer’s Designer — TYPE Magazine
• Letterform Archive

• W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design by LetterformArchive — Kickstarter

• Ultra-Geek Linux Workstation Guide

May 20, 2017

Git repos that I found interesting in the last two weeks:

• Haret – a strongly consistent distributed coordination system, built using proven protocols & implemented in Rust.
• hll++ algorithm – an implementation of Hyperloglog algorithm in D using the “betterC” idiom (ie., no need for the D runtime)
• Emacs for the stubborn martian vimmer via @deech.
• A modern JSON library for Android and Java.
• Flang , a FORTRAN compiler for LLVM.
• Bloomberg’s distributed RDBMS. Jepsen tested :)
• Ben Franklin-esque Schedule in LaTeX
• Read-and latency-optimized log structured merge tree
• An opinionated static site generator written in Rust.
• Small example MirageOS unikernels.
• An in-memory datalog implementation for OCaml.

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• Heard the Interview: Harold Evans, Author Of ‘Do I Make Myself Clear?’ : NPR on Thursday.
• Sir Harold Evans’ New Book Is a Master Class in How to Write
• The book – Do I make myself clear?
• FREE POPLOG/POP11/LISP/PROLOG/ML/AI-TOOLS

May 21, 2017

• Integrating Keto/LCHF into South Indian Vegetarian diet

May 22, 2017

• [The Most Important Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of

  Mental Floss](http://mentalfloss.com/article/94569/clair-patterson-scientist-who-determined-age-earth-and-then-saved-it)

May 23, 2017

• Graphics Programming Projects
• McNealy’s bittersweet memo bids good-bye to Sun - CNET

• [In Memoriam Alain Colmerauer: 1941-2017

  News

  Communications of the ACM](https://cacm.acm.org/news/217533-in-memoriam-alain-colmerauer-1941-2017/fulltext)

May 25, 2017

• [1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating

  Mike Cane’s xBlog](https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/1922-why-i-quit-being-so-accommodating/)

• [Why stats fail to capture how great Andrew Luck really is

  For The Win](http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/andrew-lucks-underrated-overrated-2016-season-film-study-colts-texans)

May 26, 2017

• [It’s Nice That

  A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine](http://www.itsnicethat.com/features/tekinkia-molodezhi-russian-sci-fi-barbican-into-the-unknown-160517)

• Order-Takers vs. Value-Builders

May 27, 2017

• The American Scholar: Writing English as a Second Language - William Zinsser
• Blockchains Never Forget
• How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking : The Salt : NPR

May 29, 2017

• [To Hell With Helvetica: Is an 1874 Type Catalog the World’s Most Beautiful Book?

  Collectors Weekly](http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-worlds-most-beautiful-book/)

• [A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats

  Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/05/volkswagen-bosch-fiat-diesel-emissions-cheats-cracked-open-in-new-research/)

• Security: bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty, for leaking private Yahoo! Mail images

May 30, 2017

• Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer - Recode

May 31, 2017

• A History of Histories — THE INNER SEA

June 2, 2017

• Budget Bytes - My stomach is full and my wallet is too.
• Karel Donk’s Blog » Convincing C programmers to switch to C++; A look at human thinking behavior

June 4, 2017

• The Anti-Orientalist - NYTimes.com

June 5, 2017

• Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage - Nick’s Blog
• Online Exercises - We ❤ Swift
• The Anti-Orientalist - NYTimes.com

• [The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs

  TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me-the-truth-about-vcs/)

• American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund - The Atlantic

June 6, 2017

• How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency – New York Magazine

• [The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts

  Outside Online](https://www.outsideonline.com/2186526/nut-job)

• The lost Sanskrit treasures of Tibet : NEIGHBOURS - India Today 12062017
• Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, And The Climbing World Reels : The Two-Way : NPR
• An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything - Wikipedia
• Football fan shouted ‘F*** you, I’m Millwall’ and took on knife-wielding terrorists with his bare fists - Independent.ie
• How Aristotle Created the Computer - The Atlantic

June 7, 2017

• Options vs. cash

• [Why Alex Honnold’s Free Solo of El Cap Scared Me

  Outside Online](https://www.outsideonline.com/2190306/why-alex-honnolds-free-solo-scared-me)

June 8, 2017

• Cryptocurrency: An idea whose time has come - The Hindu

Git repos that I found interesting in the last two weeks:

• Support for building Python to Rust Bridges
• A collection of source code generators for Java.
• Versatile window tiling for X11 with powerful keyboard controls
• A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• :floppy_disk: Sync data across the distributed web.
• Documentation resources for dat and the surrounding ecosystem
• None
• A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
• http.server in Rust (support Windows)
• A grammar of graphics for Python
• Sandbox for some mir packages: sparse tensors, Hoffman and others. The main repository is https://github.com/libmir/mir-algorithm
• Everything you need to know to get the job.
• Lightweight, extremely high-performance JSON parser for C++11
• Nested Object Inverted Search Engine
• Containerized Data Analytics
• Python process launching
• Take logs from stdin then compress and send to S3.
• C#’s 101 LINQ Samples translated to Kotlin
• None
• Code and materials for book “Functional Design and Architecture”
• Runs Java code without a build system, grabbing dependencies declared in the Java file itself.

June 13, 2017

• Sprinting and the 10,000-Hour Rule - Freelap USA

June 15, 2017

• Subutai - Wikipedia
• A Very Naive Overview of Exercise (Part 3) - Michael Snoyman’s blog

June 16, 2017

• People of the book « Fountain Ink Series

• [Browse Ebooks

  Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/)

June 17, 2017

• How Not to Die of Botulism - The Atlantic

June 18, 2017

• Millions Died Thanks to the Mother of Environmentalism - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world

June 20, 2017

• The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist

June 21, 2017

• J Duncan M Derrett - Wikipedia

• [Dr S. Srikanta Sastri

  Official Website](http://www.srikanta-sastri.org/home/4546422492)

June 22, 2017

• Probabilistic programming from scratch - O’Reilly Media
• THE MANDELBROT MONK

June 24, 2017

• Luca Cardelli

• [The tree of knowledge is not an apple or an oak but a banyan

  Aeon Ideas](https://aeon.co/ideas/the-tree-of-knowledge-is-not-an-apple-or-an-oak-but-a-banyan)

June 25, 2017

• On Starting a Software Business — Stephanie Hurlburt

June 27, 2017

• Interviewing Ruby Programmers - O’Reilly Ruby

• [A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World

  Quanta Magazine](https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/)

June 29, 2017

• The Judgement of Cambyses - Wikipedia
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software

July 2, 2017

• The Universe of Discourse : Base-4 fractions in Telugu

• [JavaScript Interop with Reason and BuckleScript

  Jared Forsyth.com](https://jaredforsyth.com/2017/06/03/javascript-interop-with-reason-and-bucklescript/)

July 3, 2017

• Busy to Death – Barry O’Reilly

July 4, 2017

• Aristotle on the Origin of the Jews in India - Graham Hancock Official Website

• [Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

  Teaching American History](http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-one-hundred-and-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/)

July 5, 2017

• The $100 Billion per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax, says investigative journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin — Quartz

• [Understanding uncertainty: Visualising probabilities

  plus.maths.org](https://plus.maths.org/content/understanding-uncertainty-visualising-probabilities?utm_content=buffer46c5a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

• Mahābhārata: the critical edition and beyond - Livemint

July 7, 2017

• Self-Managing People Are Smart about Asking for Help

July 10, 2017

• [Ten Tips for Writing a Book without Making Your Head Explode

  Jason Zweig](http://jasonzweig.com/ten-tips-for-writing-a-book-without-making-your-head-explode/)

• [The World’s Weirdest Library

  The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/in-the-memory-ward)

July 11, 2017

• [Slaying the ‘math monster’: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think

  NWADG](http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/jul/03/slaying-the-math-monster-20170703/)

• [Slaying the ‘math monster’: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think

  NWADG](http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/jul/03/slaying-the-math-monster-20170703/)

• Yuri Drozdov, Soviet Superspy Who Planted ‘Illegals’ in Other Countries, Dies at 91 - The New York Times

July 13, 2017

• flaneur-ing for fun and profit
• What is Nassim Taleb’s concept of ‘generalized flaneuring’ and how does it apply to real life? - Quora

• [News

  IUCAA](http://www.iucaa.in/Saraswati-General.html)

July 14, 2017

• Aditya Kulkarni’s answer to How did the Rashtrakuta Empire come to an end? How did Western Chalukya become the single largest empire after the end of the Rashtrakuta dynasty? - Quora
• DASHlink - Real System Failures
• each_cons - the wise and tall of popular languages · Realfiction

July 16, 2017

• Drip Irrigation Design Guidelines – Basics of Measurements, Parts, and more

July 17, 2017

• Do you know the Monon Trail’s rules? All of them?
• Column 80 - Plain Text optimised websites
• Geometric Algebra For Computer Science

• [Trailblazer mathematics genius dies of breast cancer at 40

  The Indian Express](http://indianexpress.com/article/world/maryam-mirzakhani-trailblazer-mathematics-genius-dies-of-breast-cancer-at-40-fields-medal-2014-4752542/)

Git stars

• CRA - Create React apps with no build configuration.
• Statik - Multi-purpose static web site generator aimed at developers.
• Run Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra on QEMU/KVM. No free support is provided anymore.
• jvm-tools Small set of tools for JVM troublshooting, monitoring and profiling.
• Tiny comparison between dlang using Vibe.d vs nodejs using express vs JRuby with Roda
• Calling D library from Ruby code
• ReasonML React Native App for SeattleJS Conf
• Vectorflow – D neural network library for sparse data
• Tunnel a program’s network traffic over VPN
• No frills, super easy tiling “window manager” for MacOS
• Wait free thread communication
• Slides and resources for my talk “Rust out your C”, first given at Pittsburgh Tech Fest June 11, 2016.
• Secure and simple terminal sharing
• Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API
• 100 days of algorithms
• RailCar: Rust implementation of the Open Containers Initiative oci-runtime
• an R package which converts markdown files (.md, .Rmd) into mindmaps (brainstorms)
• Send messages to RabbitMQ from PostgreSQL
• StackImpact Python Agent - Production Profiler: CPU, memory allocations, blocking calls, exceptions, metrics, and more
• Some clone of an old arcade game
• Yet another resource for collecting articles, videos etc. regarding functional programming
• 15 working examples to get you started with Deep Learning without learning any of the math.
• Good reads for an overall understanding of distributed systems. SBU Fall 2014.

August

August 13, 2017

• The Side Project Marketing Checklist

August 15, 2017

• A FORTRAN Coloring Book : Kaufman, Roger. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. A book from 1978 about FORTRAN programming.

September

September 5, 2017

• Why Chess Will Destroy Your Mind – The Message – Medium

October 15, 2017

• [Advice for aspiring data scientists and other FAQs

  Yanir Seroussi](https://yanirseroussi.com/2017/10/15/advice-for-aspiring-data-scientists-and-other-faqs/)

• The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic – see
• Backstage Blog - Deliver software faster by managing work in progress, not by adding overtime - SoundCloud Developers – see comments

• [Frontiers

  A Practical and Time-Efficient High-Intensity Interval Training Program Modifies Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Risk Factors for Type II Diabetes

  Endocrinology](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2017.00229/full)

• [Lab_Notebook_508(new).pdf](https://www.training.nih.gov/assets/Lab_Notebook_508(new).pdf) Keeping a lab notebook. basic principles and best practices from (training.nih.gov)