The Weekly Weird - 2016-07-15
- "Endangered ferrets are being saved by drones that drop vaccine-laced M&Ms". I got nothing.
- From the "how to react to Jepsen results on your product" department: VoltDB nails it.
- Rust is coming to firefox! HN comments.
- What is the state space of drug effects?
- I'm sure I'm not the only one surprised that "using a fucking clock" is patentable.
- A pretty Big O poster.
- Spaaace!
- JUNO takes pretty pictures
- The primary job of a rocket is to make fast things come out one end. To do that they have a lot of other ancillary problems like pressurizing tanks, changing direction in space and making sure the fuel is at the bottom of the tank. Instead of a dozen different systems to do this, why not just bolt an inline-6 internal combustion engine to the thing?. Lots more information in this forum thread.
- Some space-y (or Mars-y) PDFs: Remediation Technologies for Perchlorate Contamination in Water and Soil, Economic Development of Low Earth Orbit, EVA/Robotic Servicing in the Commercial Space Era, Electromagnetically Driven Fusion Propulsion(!).
- A neat reddit thread on Kalman filters.
- Pretty graphics of how the distribution of income by industry has chanaged over the years.
- The Modular Body is gross.
- Learn you a Bayes Theorum, no matter how much math you know.
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perfnow understands Rust. - Algorithm Aversion: People Erroneously Avoid Algorithms after Seeing Them Err. Say that five times fast.
- Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming? That's a $5.9 Billion Question whose answer might be The NY-NJ Outer Harbor Gateway (pdf). All from this metafilter thread. At least it's not Miami.