The Weekly Weird - 2016-05-28
This week brought to you by this stupid furball. Good bye Professor Mittens, we miss the heck out of you.
- I'm struggling to contextualize this but, "human-whale-robot hybrid organization" is a phrase that exists outside David Brin's fever dreams. Of course a blockchain is involved. Stay for the medieval legal structure.
- Or, for that matter, that we're just going to make an artificial meteor shower because it looks pretty. That's some Culture-level self-absorption right there.
- Aerocapture (not areocapture) is one thing, you've got this big source of drag so why not use it to bleed off speed from your interplanetary jaunt? But there's more stuff around most planets than just air, namely the gigantic magnetic field you can use to make a gigantic amount of drag.
- Solving FizzBuzz...with Tensor Flow. First of all, I would totally hire someone who did this on a coding interview. Second of all, I learned a lot about neural networks both from the article and the HN comments.
- Subaru. Lesbians. A love story.
- Because "those t-shirts with ampersands" is hard to google for
- I can hear the cries of "what's a 'unicode'" from bank programmers everywhere.
- Subaru. Lesbians. A love story.
- From this thread, criticality review
- Trust nothing.
- ...especially if it's written on the internet.
- ...unless Moxie says you can.
- More new physics! A good HN Comment thread as well.
- Handheld...CNC router?
- A microSD card with some weird behaviors.
- I don't know enough to really comment on this but Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter. The HN comments are almost senisble to me.
- Dropbox talks more about their big box to store bits in.
- The really horrifying thing about this hyperreality video is that there's a marketing exec somewhere becoming increasingly aroused by the possibilities.