Simulating Religion: A Christian takes stock of Silicon Valley’s rationalist community by Alexi Sargeant A Christian takes stock of Silicon Valley’s rationalist community
(tags: lesswrong rationalism eliezer-yudkowsky Christianity philosophy transhumanism) How evolutionary biology makes everyone an existentialist | Aeon Essays “Each variant of ( Read more... )

Gas Pump Skimmers - learn.sparkfun.com Skimmers which are attached to petrol pumps internally and then use Bluetooth to get the recorded card details out to the bad guys: finally, the killer app!
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Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide! Nice article about how modern microprocessors work.
(tags: microprocessor cpu hardware memory cache) The Aural Majority: Do You Want to Swing, Virginia? What makes music swing? With sound samples.
(tags: swing music shuffle rhythm) Our quantum reality problem - Adrian Kent - Aeon An article about quantum ( Read more... )

Swing 101 - Etiquette & Floorcraft | Swungover* Mr Darcy gives some etiquette tips.
(tags: dancing lindy floorcraft etiquette lindyhop) The Slow Winter A lament that the low hanging fruit in processor design has gone, but done in a crazy discursive way with SENTENCES IN CAPS. Fun.
(tags: moores-law hardware funny usenix digits processors) ( Read more... )