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If you’re interested in investing, this story, GPUs vs. TPUs: Can NVIDIA Hold On To Its Lead?, is a good read.

wallpaper.com has a good story about Jonathan Ive and Apple’s new campus.

Here’s a story about a command-line app named speed-test that gives you network speed information from the command line.

Here’s an article from TechnologyReview.com titled, You could become an AI master before you know it. The story is about companies who are trying to make AI usable by non-AI experts.

I haven’t had time to watch it yet, but here’s Martin Odersky’s Devoxx talk that’s titled, Plain Functional Programming.

For the last few years, Intel CPUs have included a copy of the MINIX operating system way down in “Ring -3,” which apparently has support for networking and a web server. ZDnet has one of the more detailed stories about "MINIX Inside.”

From November 7, 2016: On the eve of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, I thought I’d share these memories of the worst things that were said about Presidential candidates in years gone by:

1976: Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy who apparently really liked beer.

1980: Ronald Reagan made some bad movies, and was the first President to have been divorced.

1988: Gary Hart was a front-runner until it was found out that he was having an affair with Donna Rice. Within a week he quit the race.

1988: Joe Biden plagiarized a speech, and quickly withdrew from the race.

1992: Bill Clinton was rumored to have had affairs, and he was the first major candidate to admit to smoking marijuana (though he apparently didn’t inhale).

1996: Bob Dole seemed really grumpy.

2000: George Bush was the first presidential candidate where I can remember thinking, “Um, he doesn’t seem very smart. Shouldn’t there be an IQ test for this position?”

(I would later come to think that there should be an “Enlightenment Test,” where Presidents have to think about “100 years from now” as much as they think about today.)

2008: John Edwards: affair, dropped out

I’m sure there’s more than that, but that’s all I can remember at the moment.

Stopped off to do a little bowling on the way to the grocery yesterday. I’m rolling the ball about 21-23 mph. Next to me, a little old man with an oxygen tank strapped onto his back is rolling maybe 10 mph, but with a really nice hook. He’d throw a few balls, then rest for a while, then throw a few more. We had some good conversations, but the best was about enjoying whatever time we have left.

~ November 2, 2013

Dr. Jill Carnahan of Louisville, Colorado, has a good article on mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS).

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”

~ A quote from a 1974 Richard Feynman commencement address at Caltech entitled Cargo Cult Science.

Programmers can celebrate Christmas on Halloween:

31 oct = 25 dec

(3*8 + 1) == (2*10 + 5)

As I mentioned a few months ago, I made a small, one-time donation to The Guardian. I don’t read it regularly, but I find that other sources lead me to their articles from time to time, so I wanted to give them a little money. This morning I read that 300,000 other people have given The Guardian a one-time donation as well.

Apparently at some point Alan Kay said, “Lisp is the greatest single programming language ever designed,” and in this Quora post he writes about what he meant.

I’ve used HtmlCleaner many times before to read/parse HTML content, but jsoup worked well today as a way to modify HTML content using Scala.