One of the things that never fails to surprise me is the sheer amount of amazing/interesting stuff that pops up every day. Over the past few months, I’ve quietly been trying to capture a few of the highlights and have been planning on figuring out a better system, here for example is a more complete list of stuff just from the past day or two of my reading. Most of this I have just sent to Pocket or my ever growing Watch List (there simply aren’t enough hours in the day):
- The Shouting Class – a fantastic and very insightful essay on how social media has changed the nature of social discourse
- 10 of the World’s Most Unusual Hotels
- Sketch-Based 3D Exploration with Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks
- Researchers Invent New Method for Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation
- EvaluationNet: Can Human Skill be Evaluated by Deep Networks?
- 4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys – amazing looking VR experience, hints at how future generations might learn to understand non-intuitive concepts (hn)
- Don’t be fooled: Metadata is the real data (hn)
- Dissecting Ponzi schemes on Ethereum: identification, analysis, and impact (hn)
- What has Internet done to Media? – some very interesting points, need to dig in more later (hn)
- Hunting Performance in Python Code – Part 2. Measuring Memory Consumption (hn)
- What to Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global – best bet is to keep encrypted home on an external SSD I think (hn)
- Network protocolsFor programmers who know at least one programming language (hn)
- Is the U.S. Education System Producing a Society of “Smart Fools”? (hn)
- Python For Finance: Algorithmic Trading (hn)
- Hacker, Hack Thyself – the comments are particularly interesting w/ sysadmin stories (hn)
- base65536 – “Base65536 is a binary encoding optimised for UTF-32-encoded text and Twitter. This JavaScript module, base65536, is the first implementation of this encoding.” (hn)
- What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex (hn)
- THE LONG, SLOW, ROTTEN MARCH OF PROGRESS (hn)
- Nature, the IT Wizard
(hn) - TLDR Stock Options (hn)
- Please, enough with the dead butterflies! (hn)
- Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years Away
(hn) - SeaGlass: Enabling City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (hn)
- MASSIVE CRATERS FROM METHANE EXPLOSIONS DISCOVERED IN ARCTIC OCEAN WHERE ICE MELTED (hn)
- This Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino’s And Papa John’s (hn)
- All back issues of Omni magazine now available online (hn)
- What Really Happened with Vista (hn)
- Where i store some Ξ for the future…
- TPCast Technical Info Dump
- New Tested – Projections Video – Hands-On with AR Prototype!
- New York Underwater
- Statement on QuadrigaCX Ether contract error
- The IRS is Due to Present its Digital Currency Strategy to Congress Next Week
- VRGirlz (Veiviev): playable 4D motion scan demos and call for funding – very NSFW but some of the best scanning work I’ve seen; 30fps/3min not rt
- OTOY Explains 6 Degrees of Freedom Video Workflow Developed With Facebook
- Wow, this has to be one of the most impressive examples of Photogrammetry in VR
It’s worth noting that this is a sampling from about one day’s worth of bookmarks one three aggregators (Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit) that I only check a few times over the course of the day (this was on a travel day no less). Also that simply going back and gathering and sifting all these out took about an hour this morning.
Putting a little bit of thought on how to better manage all this.