Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for August 29th from 17:43 to 22:50:

• Robot Love by Margaret Ryznar :: SSRN – "Researchers have been developing a sophisticated humanoid robot that people in the future may want to marry. A human-robot marriage would pose all kinds of challenges for lawmakers—from the question of whether robots could be granted custody of children or access family bank accounts, to the basic question of free will. Any growing relationship between humans and robots, however, may pose challenges to the current understanding of family law. For skeptics of such a future, this remains an interesting thought experiment nonetheless."
• Proton pulses accelerate electrons to 2 GeV – Physics World –
• Uber’s Bundles – Stratechery by Ben Thompson –
• Society 5.0 –
• google/dopamine: Dopamine is a research framework for fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms. –
• Maps of subjective feelings | PNAS –
• ‎www.inwap.com/pdp10/compuserve.txt – "This may not be exactly what you had in mind, but it is a pretty accurate
  summary of how 10's have been used at CompuServe over the past 17 years. I
  hope you can use it… anyway, please do keep me updated on your project. (If
  you want changes, or more material, just let me know). Also, if you do decide
  you want to use this, I'd like a chance to edit it a bit before giving you a
  "final" version. So please consider this a prelimary version…"
• Who Do You Think Will Win The Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Competition Tomorrow? – The Drive –
• U.S. denying passports to American citizens along Mexico border – The Washington Post –
• The world is a terrible place right now, and that’s largely because it is what we make it. | WIL WHEATON dot NET –