Bookmarks for June 25th from 18:43 to 19:43
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for June 25th from 18:43 to 19:43:
- Oculomotor strategy of an avian ground forager: tilted and weakly yoked eye saccades | Journal of Experimental Biology – Ok I’m only reading this because the bird of prey handler today implies that some birds don’t make saccadic movements like humans do (in answer to: why is the bird bobbing its head around like that?)
- Happy Fun Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/05/happy-fun-algorithmic-warfare-cross-functional-team/ – “You know, kind of like how Wehrner von Braun aimed for the stars, but mostly hit London.”
- Doctor Strange Main On End VFX Breakdown on Vimeo – I love motion graphics.
- jwz: Today in Uber Autonomous Murderbot News – This is so annoyingly, irritatingly sad I can’t even be angry at the hubris.
- Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/20/cost-disease-in-medicine-the-practical-perspective/ – I remember thinking about healthcare this way once and patently never got around to it.
- Brains Improved by Graphene Are on the Horizon – IEEE Spectrum – I’ll be even more excited about this when we have industrial processes for making large amounts of usable graphene.
- Chicago taps Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build high-speed transit tunnels that would tie Loop with O’Hare – Chicago Tribune – “Negotiations between the two parties will ensue in hopes of reaching a final deal to provide a long-sought-after alternative to Chicago’s traffic gridlock and slower “L” trains.” – the reporting on this has been super disappointing. From what I can tell, Boring merely won the competition for an exclusice one year negotiating period with the city.
- California Tests Kindle-ized License Plates – IEEE Spectrum – “The project started in 2008, Reviver founder and CEO Neville Boston says, with a plan to eliminate those date stickers—it was time, he thought, to get registration renewals out of snail mail and into the wireless world. In the midst of an economic downturn, he says, he was also looking to get involved with something that exists in good times and bad—and the DMV is certainly that.” – I love you California, and this doesn’t feel like a great idea.