Weekly Random: #121

Misc

• A reply letter by Kurt Vonnegut

• 2013 vs 2014 F1 engine sound
  • Recap of the first race this season
• Visual comparison, 4-series vs M4

• The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage
• Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists?
• Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

• UBESTORMER 3 Smashes Rubik’s Cube Speed
• 2048 – the official game by Gabriele  Circulli
  • Digits – xkcd
  • AI Solver
• Concrete Angel – Gareth Emery feat. Christina Novelli

Technical

• Nobody expects 3D – Interaction tips by Paul Lewis
• Epic drastically drops the price of Unreal Engine game development

• CDNs & SSL affect on performance: Lessons from the super bowl
• Littlest database that could
• The Programmer Productivity Paradox

• Lucene’s FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0
• Why can I look at a graph and immediately find the closest point to another point, but it takes me O(n) time through programming?
• Differential equations in data science
• The Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear Regression in PyMC3

Quotes

• “There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780)

• “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” ― John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams (12 May 1780)

• “Do not raise your children the way [your] parents raised you, they were born for a different time.” ― Ali bin Abi Taleb (599 – 661 A.D.)