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 May 3rd from 09:39 to 08:42:

• Recreating 1850s Vintage Photography (and IR!) @ Phil Warren Photography –
• Recreating the Look of 1850s Tintypes in Digital with Math and Science –
• Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas | Quanta Magazine –
• Toy Story 4 footage reveals the exact moment a toy gains consciousness – Polygon – "If you make a stack of Lego into a person-shape, name it Brick, and play around with it, do all the Lego become one sentient being? What happens when you destroy it?" – anthropomorphize all the things!
• The Emergence of a Fovea while Learning to Attend – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog –