The Weekly Weird - 2019-02-22
- So, uh, are you tracking the size of your environment variables when you do benchmarking?
- I feel like the lesson of "do not train your AI with content from Bad Places" has been learned once already but here we go again (h/t a reader!). (Someone train it on D&D rules lawyer threads and see how long it takes to build a BBEG named Kansto dedicated to optimally packing NPCs). Hilarity aside, I broadly agree that the results are pretty damn impressive, feel like young-brain instead of dumb-program, and justify some worry about script-kiddie usage.
- A third (bad) option of what's going on with that Canadian exchange's cold wallets: they went bankrupt months ago and this is a smokescreen.
- The problem with not being a lawyer is that I can't tell if this is a crank or if it's a new(?) avenue for rendering patents useless.
- The problem with not being a statistician is that I don't know enough statistics to determine if this statistical package is reasonable. Sounds neat though.
- So many PDFs on building efficient wood stoves (via).
- ILLEGAL LEGO FORMATIONS (pdf)
- Not that we build nuclear reactors anymore but if we did, extracting fuel from the ocean is getting more plausible. Still not going to beat solar to the punch.
- Two trips with no commentary: the (entire) A train and a long way to take a swim.
- Now that Elon (call me!) is building a HEAVY METAL STARSHIP, the next obvious question is how hard is it to make steel on Mars? Seems doable, actually (via).