Simon Willison on bunniehuang

5 items tagged “bunniehuang”

2017

Any engineer who observes a bias in a system and chooses not to pro-actively correct for it is either a bad engineer or they stand to benefit from the bias. So much of engineering is about compensating, trimming, and equalizing imperfections out of real systems: wrap a feedback loop around it, and force the error function to zero.

— Bunnie Huang

# 12th November 2017, 3:48 pm / bunniehuang

2009

On Influenza A (H1N1). “It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.”

# 3rd September 2009, 9:25 am / h1n1, influenza, bunniehuang

2008

bunnie’s blog: OLPC XO-1 (via) Bunnie Huang critiques the hardware design of the OLPC XO-1.

# 12th January 2008, 9:39 am / bunniehuang, olpc, xo1, hardware

2007

Made in China. Bunnie Huang’s fascinating series on manufacturing in China, based on his experience with Chumby.

# 17th July 2007, 11:48 am / bunniehuang, china, chumby

I heard that Foxconn - the place that makes the iPods and iPhones - consumes 3,000 pigs a day.