The Weekly Weird - 2014-10-03
Weekly Weird Shameless Nepotism Edition: a friend of mine is doing a short-run off-off-broadway improv show wherein they improvise a musical via karaoke. Note that it's improv which occasionally gets a bit, ehm, linguistically colorful so maybe leave the kids at home. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-karaoke-fun-time-tickets-12961623565 Use code HKFT to get $5 off.
- Starting out this week with a tale of spelunking: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/\~ttsiod/bashheimer.html
- Did you see the clouds this week? http://i.imgur.com/SwqO6K9.jpg
- Ever wonder what "girding your loins" actually means? Wonder no more! http://i.imgur.com/EHkniX5.jpg
- Sometimes the most important part of a job is the one that's totally invisible, overshadowed by the razzle dazzle until someone points it out: http://extension765.com/sdr/18-raiders
- You know you're doing well when John Nagle comments on your paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8381480
- Relativistic Hash Tables. Clever idea, fantastic title. http://lwn.net/Articles/612021/
- A small novel's worth of Soviets, Linear Programming, P=NP and more! (Pack a lunch) http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/
- Realtime scheduling for Xen: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/\~mengxu/emsoft14/emsoft14.pdf
- "The FireBox Warehouse Scale Computer In 2020 Will Have 1K Sockets, 100K Cores, 100PB NV RAM, And A 4Pb/S Network" http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/9/17/the-firebox-warehouse-scale-computer-in-2020-will-have-1k-so.html
- Atomic pipe cleaners! http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html
- Some pretty impressive CGI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjHiC0mt4Ts
