Assorted Links

Always start with politics, and then continue with politics.

Scott, Hanson and Eliezer are all worth reading. This sentence doesn’t really cover it, so please mentally insert all the superlatives into the recommendation that you can bear.

The vegetarian revolution might not be happening; at least not due to successful advocacy.

The one and only gwern started a subreddit on decisiontheory.

For some reason I learned only very recently about Argon2, the password hashing competition winner from 2015. This is officially much better then scrypt. It also has a library.

You don’t want to know how browser’s user agent strings were made.

I should be much more suprised that anything works at all (HN). CPUs are more broken than I feared.

But we still have to be trying. afl.rs integrates american fuzzy loop with rust. Via reddit/rust on flac, a rust library for flac decoding.