Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 17th from 13:41 to 20:00:

• The moment I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women | PandoDaily – Well said by @sarahcuda, who did not have to be this fair after the appalling comments made by Uber exec:
• Introducing data center fabric, the next-generation Facebook data center network – The more than 1.35 billion people who use Facebook on an ongoing basis rely on a seamless, “always on” site performance. On the back end, we have many advanced…
• Why Facebook’s New Data Center Is Bad News For Cisco | WIRED – Then One/WIRED
  Facebook is now serving the American heartland from a data center in the tiny town of Altoona, Iowa. Christened on Friday morning, this is just…
• The Worm in the Machine – A Worm’s Mind In A Lego Body: Timothy Bubisce of the OpenWorm project (previously) has uploaded a neural mapping, or connectome, of the C. elegans worm as…
• Goldberg Robotics – [Image: From Science Daily/University of Oslo]. Robots emitting robots emitting robots: this is one way that machines will learn to navigate extreme spatial…