Computing edition

• Bayesian Methods for Hackers. The topic is interesting, the IPython/Github setup looks really cool in general.

• Processing 2. Programming language for visual applications.

• antiweb. The opposite of the web literate programming tool.

Functional Programming

• The Essence of the Iterator Pattern

• "The future of software, the end of apps, and why UX designers should care about type theory"
  • reddit discussion

• "Map fusion: Making Haskell 225% faster"

• "Stream Fusion: From Lists to Streams to Nothing at All"

• "Data analysis with Monoids"

• "Haskell from C: Where are the for Loops?"

Gaming

• Mineflayer. Minecraft bots.
• "Game Development Archeology: Zelda on Game Boy comes with source"

Hacking

• "Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go" * reddit discussion

Internet

• Invite Online Computer Topic Aggregator: lobse.rs

• brython. Python Implementation in JavaScript with Access to DOM.

• acheron. "Acheron is a Common Lisp (CL) to JavaScript (JS) compiler. Programs are written in a subset of CL and after compilation executed in a webbrowser. Acheron has native functions that are written in JS and are the bridge between CL and JS."

Programming Challenges

• Hacker Rank

• Quixey Challenge Fix a bug in one minute.

Simulation

• "Optimizing Code for the ESA"

• "Real Time Garbage Collection Is Real"

Version Control

• "The Git Parable" A parable explaining Git.

Nifty Links Returns

• "The Secret History o the U-2". And Area 51 is acknowledged.

• Interactive Craft Brewery Map

• "So You Still Don't Understand Hindley Milner?". Type inference Explained.

• Obama/NSA "Yes We Scan" Poster

• Alan Turing, Yours In Distress. Note the syllogism.

• Clean Code Cheat Sheet

• Reddit Through History

• Museum of Reddit

• Book: Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation

• Ars: Ultrabooks and Convertibles from Computex

Legal AIs, Smart Dogs, Universe Simulators and Warp Drive Howtos. Even More SciFi like than usual.

Animals

• Peregrine Falcon Mounted With Camera

• Speak Dog

• "Dog Sniffs Out Grammar". Chaser the border collie learning grammar.

• Chaser's Website and Book

Astronomy

• "RIP and good planet hunting, Kepler"

• Jupiter's Moons' Positions Twitter Feed

• Universe Sandbox. Interactive astronomy software.

Computing

• Terra: A low-level counterpart ot Lua

• "Why Python?"

• Neuroimaging in Python

• "Learn Git Branching"

• ClippyJS "Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia."

• NVIDIA "Modern GPU "is code and commentary intended to promote new and productive ways of thinking about GPU computing."

• gitdown "is a script which moderates your git committing activity based on your blood alcohol content (BAC)."

• David Wheeler's Page with security and FOSS links.

• "Comparing Julia and R vocabularies"

• Fabien Sanglard's Code Reviews. Also, his technical books post

• Leap Motion Gesture Interface

• Open Relativity Engine

• Reddit discussion on the effects of programming on the brain

Source Formatters

• GNU Indent

• Artistic Style

• Universal Indent

Backups and Network Attached Storage

• NAS Finder

• Hacking Buffalo NASs

Quantum Computing

• "D-Wave’s quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers"

• "Introduction To Quantum Computing"

Science

• Open Science Framework

• Earning a PhD studying a model theory

• Ansatz: Progress by Guesswork

• List of Free Science Books

Spaceflight

• "The secret laser-toting Soviet satellite that almost was"

• Indian Mission to Mars

• Stratolaunch moving to solid fuel "Pegasus II" vehicle

• White-Juday Warp-field Interferometer

• "Warp Field Mechanics 101"

• Starship Century by Benford and Benford. "This groundbreaking anthology of science and science fiction is based on findings and discussions of the 100-Year Starship Symposium held in 2011. In it, top scientists tackle the opportunities for our long-term future in space. Alongside them, science fiction authors explore the dream and the possibilities."

Physics

• "Quantum Mechanics: Get Real". "Do quantum states offer a faithful representation of reality or merely encode the partial knowledge of the experimenter? A new theorem illustrates how the latter can lead to a contradiction with quantum mechanics."

• The Theoretical Minimum. "is a series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses taught by world renowned physicist Leonard Susskind. These courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics including all of the fundamental mathematics."

Education

• "Math anxiety: who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it"

• Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in Computer Science

• Engineering Redshirts program

Whiskey

• Custom Whiskey by the Barrel

Cyberwarfare

• "U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback"

• Forge-Mil. Department of Defense opensource community and services. Related reddit comment

Data

• The Sonification Handbook. "This book is a comprehensive introductory presentation of the key research areas in the interdisciplinary fields of sonification and auditory display."

• The Dictionary Of Numbers "is an award-winning Google Chrome extension that tries to make sense of numbers you encounter on the web by giving you a description of that number in human terms."

Literature/Writing

• Authors' diagraming of works

• Map of the Revelation Space Universe

• CreateSpace "provides free tools to help you self-publish and distribute your books, DVDs, CDs, video downloads and MP3s on-demand on Amazon.com"

Journalism

• New Yorker announces leak/whistleblower submission system

Culture

• A perspective on the problems associated with being male

• Baseball for the blind

• Nathan Fillion Masters the Sword

• "Using science to reform toxic player behavior in League of Legends"

• Easter Egg Wiki

Law

• International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law

Gaming

• Minecraft scale Earth
• Massic Chalice Kickstarter

Life

• "Strucutred Procrastination"

• "How Not To Commit Suicide"

• Engagement Ring with Induction powered LEDs

• Yak Shaving. See also, "structured procrastination".

• 200 dollar 3D printer

Linguistics

• "Analyzing The Language Of Suicide Notes To Help Save Lives"

• Google N-grams

History

• Ben Franklin's Prudential Algebra

• British National Archive World War 2 and Cold War Intelligence files released. British National Archives interrogations about the man behind the Munich bombing attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Math

• "Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap". Yitang Zhang makes important advance in regarding the twin primes conjecture

• "An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering"

• "Jewish Problems". "This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems that were used by the department to blackball unwanted candidate students, these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find. Using problems with a simple solution protected the administration from extra complaints and appeals. This collection therefore has mathematical as well as historical value."

• The Art Of Problem Solving Online math problem community.

Weather

• Birth of the tornado that devestated Moore, Oklahoma

• Tornado Tracks for the past 56 years

International Relations

• Insightful Comment on North Korea

Sports

• "CourtVision: New Visual and Spatial Analytics for the NBA"

Baseball

• Cinncinati Bearcat Baseball Celebrations

• MLB Pitching/Strikezone data

• Mike Trout Zero WPA Cycle

• Jose Bautista and a huge game

• Hustle Doubles. Parra's s the best

Government and Civil Liberties

• "Gov’t agrees to destroy data seized in political interrogation at airport"

Care Packages for the Homeless, Pack Robots and the Return the NTRS

General Relativity

• "High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity"

Google Glass

• Google Glass Kernel Source

Simulation

• Interactive Spring Mass Damper In Javascript and HTML 5

Ancient Wisdom

• "How I Coded In 1985". Awesome reddit discussion that spawn from this post.

Computing

• "Rust, What I Learnt So Far"
• "Compiling SIMULA: A Historical Study of Techological Genesis"
• Terminus: A Unix terminal like adventure game
• J. Carmack is porting Wolf3D to Haskell
• "Fixing a Nasty Physically Modeled Engine Bug in an FPS Game"

Computer Science

• The Big O Cheat Sheet
• Math ∩ Programming: Primers. Primers on the math behind CS.

Math

• Soap Bubbles and Variational Calculus

Spaceflight

• APOD: "Humanity Explores the Solar System"

Fantasy Economics

• "Making Mordors Economy Work"

Interwebz

• "First Website Ever Goes Back Online"

Making/Robotics

• "An Arduino Based Robot For People Who Don't Know How to Build Robots"

• DARPA LS3 Pack Robot

Linguistics

• Ultraconserved words

Mississippi State

• MSU Students Chosen for UN internship

Sabermetrics

• Fangraph's Standings and Depth Charts

Aerospace

• NASA Technical Report Server Back, Crippled?

• TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library

Philanthrophy

• "How to Make a Homeless Care Package"

• Premade Hygience Packs

Torture, Terrorism and Thermodynamics

Aircraft

• The Air Refueling Archive

Chess

• Video commentary on chess games

Civil Rights

• "Obama’s rush to judgment: Was the Boston bombing really a “terrorist” act?"

Collaboration

• Mozilla Towtruck. "TowTruck has collaboration features like cursor-mirroring (allowing you to see your friend's cursor on the screen in real time), collaboratively editing forms and text, browsing through the site, and both text and real-time voice chat"

Computing

• "Why Concatenative Programming Matters"
• Brainfuck Visualizer
• Writing exception safe code in C++
• Beignet. OpenCL for IvyBridge GPGPUs
• Invent with Python: Hacking Secret Cyphers with Python
• "What Is Probablistic Programming?"

Culture

• "The War on the Word 'Jihad'". "... [calling terrorists jihadi] would be like calling Germans during the Second World War 'National Socialist Aryan Heroes.'"

Haskell

• "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell". Related reddit discussion.
• Typeclassopedia
• GHC for Android

Gaming

• Port of Jedi Outcast for Linux
• Sparcraft."SparCraft is an open source abstract StarCraft combat simulation package for Windows and Linux. It can be used to create standalone combat simulations or be imported into an existing BWAPI-based StarCraft bot to provide additional AI functionality. "

Entertainment

• Star Trek Continues
• "The 'Mad Men' Writers Are Working on a Show About NASA in the '60s"

Logic

• Linear Logic

Medicine

• 800 Dollar Heart Surgery

Siege Engines

• Video: "Development of a Dynamically Tuned MURLIN Trebuchet". "Development of a MURLIN trebuchet which is tuned to work with a bending structure."

Spaceflight

• F-1B In Development

Soccer

• Offensive and defensive effectiveness of the top five European soccer leagues

Thermo

• "Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight"

Nonnifty

• Constituion Project Concludes US Practiced Torture

Woodworking

• Square Hole Drill Bit animation

Can't stop the signal

Books

• "Top 10 Space Race Biographies"

Computing

• Tools for Thought
• Pebble Smartwatch. "Want your watch to tell you when your next bus is leaving? Maybe you're jonesing to see your compile status or recent github commits.. Think push notifications, directly to your watch using the data connection on your phone. Want to check-in on your watch, or create an app that can monitor your sleep? Pebble can send data from the accelerometer and buttons back up to the internet."
• Stochastic Superoptimizer: STOKE
• "learnfun & playfun: A general technique for automating NES games". The is both funny and awesome, too.
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Can't Stop the Signal, Pierre

• France Tries to Hide 'Classified' information by forcing Wikipedia to take it down by kidnapping a Wikipedia editor.
• Fox's attack on "Jane hats" on Etsy

Gaming

• LÖVE/Love2D "an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."
• trAInsported. Develop AIs for a future rail system.
• Shiftylook. "Part of the Namco label at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., ShiftyLook is all about bringing arcade classics back to life with webcomics, cartoons, games, and more! With some of the coolest creators in the business, ShiftyLook publishes webcomics for classic games like Katamari, Galaga, and Dig Dug, and introduces retro Japanese titles like Bravoman, Wonder Momo, Valkyrie and Klonoa to fans both old and new. "

Health

• "People in the South are not so fat after all -- and they lie less"

Making

• 'New $443 3D scanner on sale: “Looks awesome. Shoots lasers.”'

Mathematics and Education

• "A Mathmetician's Lament". On the state of math education.

Non-nifty

• "All-Girl Rock Band Breaks Up After Fatwa Triggers Threats Of Rape And Violence"

Nuclear Stuff

• NUKEMAP. See how a nuclear strike would affect your city.
• Pantex. The US's only nuclear bomb plant.

Sports and Culture

• Posnanski on the 1963 Loyola-Mississippi State game
• Kickalicious: Impressive Kicking of a (gridiron) football

Ted

• Amanda Palmer: "The Art of Asking". "Don't make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer: Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar in the hat for the Eight-Foot Bride!), she examines the new relationship between artist and fan."

World Heritage

• "Peru: Heavy machinery destroys Nazca lines". Spanish Language source.

Space Turds, The Orgasm Gap and Black Hole Firewalls

Baseball

• "How Hall of Famers rank for salary in 2012 dollars"

• Natural Geographic territory of US top sports teams, including MLB, MLS, NBA, NHL and NFL

Chess

• Chess Opening Theory. Wikibook

Computing

• Best of Stackoverflow
• "Ten C++11 Features Every C++ Developer Should Use". Reddit discussion
• "Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600"
• "Introduction to x64 Assembly". x86_64
• BareMetal-OS. Written in x86_64 assembly.

Can't Stop the Signal, Mal

• Digital Public Library announced
• DBPedia "is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link the different data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking, and improving the encyclopedia itself."
• Book Crossing. "Breath new life into books instead of letting your old favorites collect dust - pass them along to another reader. Our online archival and tracking system allows members to connect with other readers, journal and review literature and trade and follow their books as lives are changed through “reading and releasing”."

Gaming

• 0 A.D.. FOSS RTS.
• Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast source code release. Reddit discussion

Gridiron football

• Explanation of Zone Coverage

Physics

Blackholes and Firewalls

• Reddit discussion
• "Astrophysics: Fire in the hole!". Nature article.
• Guest Blog by one of the authors of the firewall paper

Robotics

• "What Is BEAM Robotics". "BEAMers employ unusually simple designs (in comparison to traditional mobile robots) that trade some flexibility for greater robustness and efficiency in performing the task for which they are intended."

Sexuality

• "The Orgasm Gap: The Real Reason Women Get Off Less Often Than Men and How to Fix It"

Spaceflight

• Johnson Spaceflight Center History Portal
• Apollo 10 Transcript. Includes the floating turd incident.
• All of the Apollo mission transcripts