mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org

#Computer and #Network #Security
by Avinash Kak
#lecture #notes

https://engineering.purdue.edu/kak/compsec/

So You Want to #Learn #Physics…
an #outline by Susan Rigetti

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

Note: This reminded me how important is for the TAs to have a good bibliography list for every course.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad.

-- writemonkey

#Creativity and #community : How modern #humans overcame the Neanderthals

"One of the most fundamental questions about human nature is what sparked the explosive emergence of creativity in modern humans in the period just before and after their widespread dispersal from Africa and the related extinction of Neanderthals and other human relatives,"

"Major controversies persist about the basis for human creativity in art and science, as well as about potential differences in cognition, language, and personality that distinguish modern humans from extinct hominids. This new study is the result of a truly pathbreaking use of genomic methodologies to enlighten us about the mechanisms underpinning our uniqueness."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421100932.htm

The most radical and dangerous activity one can practice these days is telling the truth.
(quote me 🤭 )

Everybody is talking now about big pharma profits, but there’s one #business no one talks about which #profits grew much more. Just think that #covid19 only brought it #2-million new #clients in 2020.

#sunday #deep #thoughts

protip: #alias #sudo to #please for a much wholesome #unix experience

A bachelor is a hunter that never Mrs.

-- writemonkey

# the Lainzine is a #free, not-for-profit #zine created (largely) by / for #fans of the late-90s #anime Serial Experiments #Lain and the many relevant communities, websites, and dusty art-projects it has inspired over the last decades.

https://lainzine.org/

> Quarantine Zine Club an #online #hub for the #zine #community to stay connected during this period of isolation. Here you will be able to #read zines, #share your own zines and #make #zines inspired by the monthly zine prompt!

https://quarantinezineclub.neocities.org/

Did you know that in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the ship computer is called #HAL, which is #IBM rotated by -1?

#wordgames

#urgent #work #time #wasters

"Once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. We were able to catalog every copy command made on Stack Overflow over the course of two weeks, and here’s what we found."

"One out of every four users who visits a Stack Overflow question copies something within five minutes of hitting the page. That adds up to 40,623,987 copies across 7,305,042 posts and comments between March 26th and April 9th."
#stackoverflow #copy #copies

https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-actually-copy-and-paste-from-stack-overflow-now-we-know/

> Lay down your “-isms”
believe not in doctrines
that know not love.
Rejoice in truth
that only the heart
can reveal.

https://patcegan.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/no-more-isms/

#isms #doctrine #nomore

#Einstein on the #Ideas of Truth, Goodness and Beauty

https://time.com/3772655/einstein-on-the-ideas-of-truth-goodness-and-beauty/

#dilbert #comic #meetings