BENCHMARKING THE RASPBERRY PI 2
Retro console emulation! Mario Kart and Ocarina of Time and Conker’s Bad Fur Day! Nobody actually builds stuff with the Raspberry Pi, it’s just an odd form of nostalgic consumerism wrapped up in a faddish ‘making’ trend! The original Raspberry Pi saw a lot of emulator use, but it was limited: the Pi 1 could handle the NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, and other earlier consoles with ease. Emulator performance for N64 and original Playstation games was just barely unplayable. Now, the Raspi 2 can easily handle N64 and PSX games. [HoZyVN] tried out N64’s Mario Kart and PSX’s Spyro the Dragon. They’re playable, and an entire generation rushed out to Microcenter to relive their glory days of sitting with their faces embedded in a console television drinking Sunny D all day.
(tags: raspberry-pi emulation n64 playstation gaming hardware benchmarks)
“Man vs Machine: Practical Adversarial Detection of Malicious Crowdsourcing Workers” [paper]
“traditional ML techniques are accurate (95%–99%) in detection but can be highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks”. ain’t that the truth
(tags: security adversarial-attacks machine-learning paper crowdsourcing via:kragen)
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Nice looking static code validation tool for Java, from Google. I recognise a few of these errors ;)
(tags: google static code-validation lint testing java coding)
Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true | Television & radio | The Guardian
Nathan Barley was scarcely less prophetic when it came to TV itself. In one episode Nathan’s friend Claire makes a comically po-faced, self-righteous but secretly rather narcissistic documentary about a choir made up of drug addicts. Nine years later, Channel 4 made Addicts’ Symphony for real.
(tags: nathan-barley well-weapon vice shoreditch drugs charlie-brooker chris-morris sitcoms channel-4)
Google Maps Tenth Anniversary | Re/code
the whole story of GMaps
(tags: google history maps technology mapping recode via:anildash)
0x74696d | Falling In And Out Of Love with DynamoDB, Part II
Good DynamoDB real-world experience post, via Mitch Garnaat. We should write up ours, although it’s pretty scary-stuff-free by comparison