2022-07-08 Nerd Roundup
The windows malloc trash fire, nerd fight over kubernetes being a red flag, AI writing academic papers about itself, Google's Colossus, and more
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| The Windows malloc() Implementation Is A Trash Fire | Love me a good programming rant. And instead of hello world, why not see you later, allocator? |
| Meiosis is all you need | If workable, some profound implications here. Top HN comment at one point was "now you just need a polygenic scoring system that isn't complete shit" And hence the return of polygenic scoring from a few NR episodes earlier |
| SHGA Shanghai Gov National Police Database for sale (1B entries) (breached.to) | Holy cow, batman! One billion records of ID information for Chinese! Can we stop this mutual worldwide suicide pact now, or must it continue until it hurts more? |
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Kubernetes is a red flag that you are prematurely optimizing
Nerds arrive ready to rumble |
YOMG! Nerd sacred cow skewered. Cue up villagers with torches and pitchforks in 3, 2, 1... Also, semi-rhetorical question: let's say we live in some magical future world where most business problems can be solved in just a few lines of magic code x. There are also hundreds of highly-specialized and complex tools for really oddball cases. When companies get into situations where they need these tools, they pay 10, maybd 100x the going rate of regular programmers. So -- which tech are you going to learn and master? Which tech are you going to use on that new project, whether it needs it or not? |
| Colossus under the hood: a peek into Google’s scalable storage system | Whoa. Cool inside baseball tech story, bro |
| We asked GPT-3 to write an academic paper about itself | dear diary... |
| Is music universal? | I understand this question (physics). I do not understand this question (beauty). I have no idea WTH this question is even talking about (language) |
| Camera model identification based on forensic traces extracted from homogeneous patches | Freaking everybody knows everything. Eventually we'll reach the point where you step outside your tent and fart in a National Forest and suddenly new records are added to dozens of databases |
| Robot nose that can smell disease on your breath | I'm not sure we're really able to intellectually process things that sorta work like our senses, but go past that into new territory, like the cameras that see blood flow |
| the keyboard waffle iron | Where have you been all of my life? |
| retrofitted tube TV allows Raspberry Pi to loop black and white movies | cute as heck and looks like a fun project |
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