The Weekly Weird - 2014-12-05
- Packet switch all the things: http://gizmodo.com/future-elevators-will-use-maglev-to-go-up-down-and-sid-1664272026
- https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
- This robot apocalypse brought to you by Amazon Prime:
- http://www.wired.com/2014/12/amazon-reveals-robots-heart-epic-cyber-monday-operation/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs
- And of course that last pesky human in the loop won't stay there for long: http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/
- If you've seen the new Star Wars trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng
- I don't have a sense for how actually useful this is on real data but it sure looks cool: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/12/automatically-making-sense-of-data.html
- Oppa integer overflow style: https://plus.google.com/+youtube/posts/BUXfdWqu86Q
- A little bit about Stephen Hawking and how he communicates with the world: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-intel-helped-stephen-hawking-communicate-with-104112393054.html