The Weekly Weird - 2018-03-09
- You may remember a previous Weird in which I exhorted you to watch an hour long talk on fusion energy. Well, I hope you did because then you'll have the context to understand MIT's announcement of commercialization of the SPARC design.
- Forging art is one thing, having your wife dress up in period garb to fake a photo proving provenance of your forgeries is on a whole other level.
- Vaccinations for ... heart disease? Shove some wires in your eyeballs and cure blindness. Go science!
- Be sure to avoid being in the history books, people will only remember the sound bite and not the complex decisions that led up to it.
- AI breaks game to receive infinite points. AI beats pattern recognition tests designed to evaluate humans.
- this.
- More on how 'cd' works if you want to dig in on things that don't use horrific ptrace shenanigans.
- This is just about the most Gibsonian article I've ever read: What Happens When Bitcoin Miners Take Over Your Town.
- What a coincidence: two photographers take the exact same photo.
- Cosmic rays are getting worse. Meh, big deal, just use ECC memory, right? Err, no.
- How much time have you spent thinking about residential hot water pipes? Well, let me fix that for you.