The Weekly Weird - 2015-05-14

An early weird this week as I'm out tomorrow.

• Presented without comment: http://www.daniellesucher.com/2012/04/nantucket-an-accidental-limerick-detector/
• Generally if you need this much horsepower in a single box you've made a horrible mistake somewhere but it's cool to read about: http://anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review
• "Controlled and altruistic violence": http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/anatomy-of-error
• Think what you will about Facebook but they have some real engineering chops for some things: https://twitter.com/mattjroper/status/598489543478751232/video/1
• "...betting $19,000 to win a $700 pot just isn't something that a person would do.” http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/everyone-wins-when-a-computer-learns-from-poker-pros
• Isn't SSL grand? https://certsimple.com/blog/chrome-outdated-cryptography
• What would your name have been in 2000? http://time.com/3856405/baby-name-popularity/#
• Ahem: http://backronym.fail/

• Rust!

  • From a C++ programmer's perspective: https://plus.google.com/+nialldouglas/posts/AXFJRSM8u2t
  • From another perspective: http://www.evanmiller.org/a-taste-of-rust.html (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546382 )
  • And a (truly) glorious introduction to error handling. You might note some similarities: http://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545647 )