How to make VR with the web, a new video series - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Interesting-looking tutorial on making VR apps with the Web.
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Reactive abuse
Interesting explanation of the idea of "reactive abuse", where an abuser keeps abusing someone until they get to the point that they react and then the reaction is called abuse.
Advice to Regretful pwBPD
Quote: "The number-one complaint among loved ones isn’t manipulation, splitting, mood swings, rage, jealousy, devaluation, triangulation, the victim Olympics, or really any of the well-known drama/trauma/abuse. It’s the pervasive lack of accountability."
OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes - The Verge
Rather funny hacking of an AI/machine-learning vision recognition system.
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
That thing where you obviously release something that works, just doesn't work well enough, and you never go back and improve it 'cos it works and, well... it's working yeah?
That.
The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
One of the classics of the Internet. I like this alot.
r/BPDlovedones support wiki
Very useful support resource I wish I'd found when I needed it most. The second best time to have discovered it is now, of course.
Get to Know Benchling Validated Cloud
Webinar covering information about Benchling's "Validated Cloud" offering.
lisp-journey.gitlab.io
Handy view of the state of the Common Lisp ecosystem as of 2020.
A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
This document explores methods for squeezing excess bytes out of simple programs. (Of course, the more practical purpose of this document is to describe a few of the inner workings of the ELF file format and the Linux operating system. But hopefully you can also learn something about how to make really teensy ELF executables in the process.)
Benchling Product Release Announcements
Product release notes (ChangeLog, kinda) for Benchling.
Computer Graphics from Scratch
This broad introductory book gives you an overview of the computer graphics field with a focus on two core areas of modern graphics: raytracing and rasterization. Links to interactive demos throughout bring the algorithms alive. Every algorithm is built up without the use of external libraries or APIs and is presented with language agnostic pseudocode, allowing anyone with a basic understanding of programming and high school math to follow along.
THE $TREET
Comprehensive explanation of the situation with r/WSB, GameStop shares and the taking down of some hedge funds.
Explaining the GameStop shorting thing
Tweet that contains an image of a reddit post (I know!) that explains the whole solution with hedge funds, GameStop and r/WSB, and does it in a very short and easy to understand way.
Genomics Boot Camp
The Genomics Boot Camp is a resource that helps you to start your journey in practical analysis of genomic data, with a focus on SNP data. The chapters follow the same structure all the time: provide background information and practical insight to the topic, and when appropriate exercises to reinforce the obtained knowledge. The Genomics Boot Camp as a whole was designed to cater to various learning preferences with written text, video demonstrations, and the possibility of hands-on exercises. There is a certain overlap between the book and the YouTube channel contents, but each has unique pieces of information as well. So for the full experience, I suggest checking out both.
MuscleWiki
Useful wiki that details each of the muscles in the body and how you can develop them.
Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines · Neubertify
Excellent description of everything that goes into making a COVID-19 vaccine.
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Good essay that gives plenty of reasons why HR are not there for you; they're 100% there for the company and nothing else.
Synth Soundtracks For Films That Don’t Exist
Bandcamp's pick of songs from artists on the site; with the subject being... well, this subject of this bookmark. Some really neat stuff here.
How to open a file in Emacs
On the surface: an article about how to open files in Emacs. Not so on the surface: an article about why Emacs is.
Photographer admits to faking “lava photographer on fire” image that went viral
The story behind the infamous lava/fire photograph.
A half-hour to learn Rust - fasterthanli.me
"In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or two concepts, I'll try to go through as many Rust snippets as I can, and explain what the keywords and symbols they contain mean."
Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Very readable article that explains the purpose and the content of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine, from the point of view of the actual sequence of it, and done in terms that a developer can relate to.
The Difficult Art of Giving Space in Love: Rilke on Freedom, Togetherness, and the Secret to a Good Marriage
While I'm not convinced that it makes sense to focus on the idea of "marriage" in this article -- it seems to approach it as if it's the only sensible and viable long-term form of relationship -- I do like the main thrust of it; the idea that the best relationships are those where each partner can make space for the other(s).
Does contact tracing work
Paper about the problems with the English contract-tracing scheme, with particular emphasis on the issues with the use of Excel.
Roche - Biochemical Pathways
I dunno really but it's cool.
In-depth guide to Beat Saber
Lots of information about Beat Saber, answers a lot of questions I've had since I started playing.
How to Deduplicate String Objects In-Memory in Python
Handy approach to processing strings in Python that, in some situations, should save time and memory.
Python behind the scenes #1: how the CPython VM works
This article opens a series which seeks to answer this very question. We'll dive into the internals of CPython, Python's most popular implementation. By doing so we'll understand the language itself at a deeper level. That is the primary goal of this series. If you're familiar with Python and comfortable reading C but have no much experience working with CPython's source code, there is a good chance you'll find this writing interesting.
How to Treat Depression With Low-Intensity Virtual Reality Interventions: Perspectives on Translating Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Into the Virtual Reality Modality and How to Make Anti-Depressive Use of Virtual Reality–Unique Experiences
Paper about the use of VR to help treat depression.