Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 1st from 08:09 to 19:12:

• RTSP, OBS and lenses https://www.jwz.org/blog/2019/10/rtsp-obs-and-lenses/ –
• 80×25 « blarg? –
• Homebrew Cray-1A – chrisfenton.com –
• Metaiye Knights | StartEngine – Metaiye Knights is a graphic novel and gaming saga on the rise of a decentralized freedom movement across digital and physical realms. Think the Matrix, meets Tron meets Mr Robot in comic, gaming and film formats for the mixed reality, crypto generation.
• Robots vs. Babysitters: Is Artificial Intelligence the Hot New Choice for Child Care? – Observer –

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 October 31st from 20:17 to 07:47:

• Please Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions – arXiv Vanity –
• DARPA Chooses X-37 Builder Boeing to Craft a Revolutionary Space Plane – The Drive –
• Here’s What We Know The Shadowy X-37B Was Up To During Its Record 780 Days In Space – The Drive –
• The Moon Channel: a short horror game about smart home gadgets – The Verge –
• The Loupedeck Creative Tool is a physical control deck for creative apps – The Verge –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for October 31st from 16:51 to 19:48:

• A noninteracting low-mass black hole–giant star binary system | Science –
• GitHub – Swordfish90/cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display… –
• htop explained | peteris.rocks –
• California’s on fire, unplugged and out of easy answers. So why don’t we…? | CalMatters –
• DRACULA: The Evidence by Beehive Books — Kickstarter –
• Beehive Books on Twitter: “The absolute most insane & unlikely thing we’ve tried: a box set of DRACULA, reproducing Bram Stoker’s original text as primary source documents. Letters, journals, telegrams, newspaper clippings — even a phonograph record. –
• The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling – "the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply chain" wait surely you just mean "detailed" *clicks on paper* oh right you did mean detailed.
• Food flows between counties in the United States – IOPscience –

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 October 30th from 11:44 to 07:46:

• A MYC2/MYC3/MYC4-dependent transcription factor network regulates water spray-responsive gene expression and jasmonate levels | PNAS –
• Why plants panic when it rains –
• In Memoriam: Carl V. Lewis – Code for America Blog – Medium –
• This website is not data-driven — Some Random Nerd –
• Creating God | Hidden Brain : NPR –
• John “Bergmayer” Bergmayer on Twitter: “Bumping this, not for my bad joke but for the correct conclusion on “data ownership”” / Twitter –

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 October 29th from 19:23 to 10:43:

• Author Alexander Chee on His Advice to Writers –
• Author Alexander Chee on His Advice to Writers –
• Weaponizing the Digital Influence Machine | Data & Society –
• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding | Nature Communications –
• Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction –

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 October 28th from 18:36 to 18:45:

• Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera –
• How to Get Started With AIOps – Smarter With Gartner – wow
• Presidential Innovation Fellows – Outreach and Marketing Lead | Join the Technology Transformation Services –
• Mind the Mass Gap – Scientific American Blog Network – And in the wee hours of September 24, the “sleepless nights” prediction came true: my phone woke me up with an message from a new LIGO-Virgo public notification system that alerts subscribers within minutes of a new detection.
• Kincade Fire: Why you can’t make cell calls in this emergency –
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – The Talk –
• About DigiCortex | www.digicortex.net – DigiCortex is a highly optimized engine for large-scale simulation and interactive visualization of biologically plausible neural network circuits on heterogeneous computing architectures. The DigiCortex engine simulates activity of neurons and synapses by using biologically accurate models of neurons, synapses and synaptic plasticity.

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for October 28th from 11:16 to 16:50:

• Lets Build Robots That Are As Smart As Babies – IEEE Spectrum –
• 20,000 players banned by CS: GO’s new AI | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• Facebook’s Preventive Health tool asks people to advocate for their health – The Verge –
• Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads – The New York Times –
• Digital Service Collaborative – Building Capacity for Digital Transformation in Government – The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation –

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 October 27th from 16:20 to 10:00:

• Star Trek Discovery Recap, Season 1, Episode 2 – Meanwhile, Burnham gets to have a charming little back-and-forth with the brig’s security computer after she fails to convince it that “hey, most of the spaceship around me is now missing” poses a serious enough threat to initiate ethical evacuation protocol. She finally debate-teams it into opening a small hole in the containment field and uses the resulting depressurization to “shoot her through to the blast door.”
• How Star Trek: Discovery and The Good Place find humanity in hell – Vox – seriously
• Evil doctor, ethical android: Star Trek’s instantiation of conscience in subroutines | Grech | MOSF Journal of Science Fiction –
• (1) dan hon(k) on Twitter: “Please see my RFC for HTTP error code 461: “Unavailable due to anthropogenic climate change” https://t.co/T8C9V2KmKI” / Twitter –
• Wayne E. Lee (2016): Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History – Wayne E. Lee (2016): Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
• g traditional thermal management technologies, OHPs enable low-cost manufacturing techniques due to the lack of an internal wick structure. OHPs provide a low cost method to alleviate electronics thermal constraints and allow for increased processing powe –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for October 27th from 07:25 to 15:58:

• Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight – Reuters –
• dan hon(k) on Twitter: “This is another example of someone thinking that a processed (Eg “algorithms”) acting “at scale” solve the problem without remembering or realizing that it doesn’t count without covering how to flexibly and easily handle –
• dan hon(k) on Twitter: “Earlier this year everyone was all “ha ha Blade Runner is set in 2019 with robots indistinguishable from humans hidden amongst society and no resources to find them and hellish Californian weather and fires and no electricity” –
• Crackpot index –
• Scale-invariant magnetic textures in the strongly correlated oxide NdNiO 3 | Nature Communications –
• 1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets – The New York Times –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for October 26th from 00:24 to 19:28:

• dad tired on Twitter: “one thing you forget about star wars is how much of the original trilogy is just darth vader flying in some place to chew some guy out about construction delays” / Twitter –
• Adam Mosseri on Twitter: “@cwarzel Two things to consider: (1) do you really want platform as big as Facebook embracing a political ideology? And (2) not as important, and this is an honest question, why such a different reaction to Breitbart being Apple –
• Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Can Help the News Business – The New York Times –
• Introducing Facebook News – Facebook Newsroom –
• L Johnston on Twitter: “Incredible story. Thermal imaging in an exhibition picks up breast cancer https://t.co/pd1VFD0Mjf” / Twitter –