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 19th from 20:11 to 18:08:

• (24) Movies & Shows – YouTube – "Free" "content" in exchange for "viewing" "paid" "advertisements" on youtube.
• How Half-Life Killed The First-Person Shooter | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• Half-Life turns 20 today, and it feels more original than ever – The Verge –
• (PDF) The Predictive Brain as a Stubborn Scientist –
• The Predictive Brain as a Stubborn Scientist: Trends in Cognitive Sciences – Bayesian theories of perception have traditionally cast the brain as an idealised scientist, refining predictions about the outside world based on evidence sampled by the senses. However, recent predictive coding models include predictions that are resistant to change, and these stubborn predictions can be usefully incorporated into cognitive models.