The Weekly Weird - 2018-09-07

Skorgu

2018-09-07 14:00

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I would definitely have reconsidered medicine as a career field if I knew stabbing cadavers with ballpoint pens was a valid research track.
On the other hand, AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH. *gasp* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
"Sudden liquefaction" is a scary phrase but not for the reason you think.
Finishing off this horrible sub-section: straight up Lovecraftian horror, in documentary form: When Snails Attack. Don't worry, humans are still scarier: literal killer robots
If you think you should quit your job, you should quit your job. People stay way longer than seems obvious from the outside.
I present to you the polar opposite of blameless postmortems.
At what orbit should you build your deep-space lunar science station? NASA has you covered.
Hard to beat "literally the speed of light" for nerual network inference latency.
Mapreduce components in rust: Efflux. Q in rust.
So, uh, apparently the issues with Theranos were not what you'd call hidden.
Some videos on Rust: Bryan Cantrill talks about Joyent statemaps and Tools for thought and several core team members discuss how to build a system of people (don't miss this one).
I feel like someone needs to work backward and write a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court homage where we intimidate an invading alien force by predicting a supernova.
Thermodynamics kills. I don't mean poetically, I mean the list of academics studying the subject with successful or seriously attempted suicide attempts is ... startling (h/t stefanetal: Ludwig Boltzmann, Paul Ehrenfest, Julius von Mayer, Clara Immerwahr, Gilber Lewis, and Percy Bridgman.