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 December 7th from 02:34 to 20:40:

• Rez Infinite – Level 01 Player Form Shirt – Only from iam8bit –
• Opinion | What Straight-A Students Get Wrong – The New York Times –
• Heading to a cardiologist….. –
• Daring Fireball: Electron and the Decline of Native Apps –
• AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery | DeepMind –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 6th from 07:43 to 17:29:

• Arlo Baby Camera gains five new HomeKit features following initial video support  – 9to5Mac –
• iPhone murder conviction: health data provides crucial evidence – 9to5Mac –
• Experiment to see if you can recognize GAN-generated imagery – via https://medium.com/@kcimc/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated-images-4d1f6f9a2842
• Why did Apple’s Copland fail when so many early-90s OS projects succeeded & dominate the world today: liam_on_linux –
• change-password-url/explainer.md at gh-pages · WICG/change-password-url –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 5th from 13:06 to 22:21:

• Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself | Nature Communications –
• Announcing Better Worlds: a science fiction project about hope – The Verge –
• Matthew Ball on Twitter: “1/ I’m stunned, but not surprised by AT&T’s decision to extended their #Friends licensing deal with Netflix through 2019. A perfect example of, despite saying they were committed to winning in SVOD, Big Media wants to have th –
• The backstory of Netflix’s $100 million ‘Friends’ deal – Recode –
• Bird Mechanic Review: What It’s Like to Fix Bird Scooters – Here's an Isaac Asimov story about humanity's future of tending to ubiquitous computer controlled robots no wait it's about the people needed to keep on-demand e-scooter infrastructure running sorry my mistake

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 December 3rd from 18:55 to 09:23:

• Scriptum – A2P –
• crawshaw – 2018-05-18 –
• Special License Plates –
• Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling –
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge on Windows 10 –

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 30th from 20:44 to 14:33:

• MI6 ‘C’ speech on fourth generation espionage – GOV.UK –
• Stage Six: Process-Analyzing Thinkpiece; Stage Seven: MetaFilter Post | MetaFilter –
• The digital-media bubble is bursting. That’s hurting a generation of promising young journalists. –
• A Mass Timber Tower Rises in Portland – Urban Land Magazine –
• Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real, Many Labs 2 Says – The Atlantic –
• Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data Store –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 29th from 06:50 to 23:51:

• An experiment requiring work for food stamps is a Trump administration model – The Washington Post –
• The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories – Polygon –
• ‘Emerging’ as a Writer — After 40 –
• Gamasutra – Unity offers guidelines for what it considers ethical AI design –
• Gamasutra – Designing characters as UI in State of Decay 2, Star Citizen, and Battletech –

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 27th from 18:58 to 17:08:

• Foreign data wrappers – PostgreSQL wiki –
• Generating Classical Music with Neural Networks – FloydHub Blog – Of course, part of the difficulty is figuring out how to translate words (or notes) into vectors that you can pass directly into the model. A lot of my work was finding a good encoding for the music!
• Valdez, Alaska paid off ransomware hackers – “The city of just 4,000 gave its attackers four bitcoins, worth $26,624 at the time of the payment, in exchange for a decryption key that unlocked its systems that had been affected by the cyberattack.”
• ‘Black Mirror’: The Oral History of ‘San Junipero’ –
• AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites | AWS News Blog – Wtf

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.

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 1st from 20:30 to 22:42:

• The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC. –
• Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/ten-great-adventure-game-puzzles/ –
• We’re Good At Recognizing Distorted Faces – Neuroskeptic –
• Animalia –
• Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections – Enhance

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 11:01 to 16:04:

• Starfleet Corps of Engineers (Literature) – TV Tropes –
• Jurassic Park for Perfume: Ginkgo Bioworks Reconstructs Scents From Extinct Plants – IEEE Spectrum – "Researchers at Ginkgo Bioworks, one of the largest synthetic-biology companies in world, succeeded in resurrecting the smell by expressing the genes needed for making the defunct flower’s pungent aroma molecules in microbes. Ginkgo unveiled—and demoed—the new perfume at the company’s inaugural annual meeting in Boston last week."
• Gamasutra: Josh Ge’s Blog – How to Make a Roguelike – "The “How to Make a Roguelike” talk is available in video form below, but this article serves as a text version of that same talk for those who’d prefer a readable format, or to just take a closer look at the many images ;)"
• Growth of Subreddits | FlowingData – “here’s a chart of the top 10 commented subreddits over the years for a look at “what the internet is talking about.””
• AR Costumes: Automatically Augmenting Watertight Costumes from a single RGB Image – Disney Research – "We describe a method to automatically augment a watertight digital costume onto a person’s body from a monocular RGB image. When overlaying a digital costume onto a body using pose matching, several parts of the person’s cloth or skin remain visible due to differences in shape and proportions. In this paper, we present a practical solution to these artifacts which requires minimal costume parameterization work, and a straightforward inpainting approach. To our knowledge, our approach is the first to deliver plausible watertight costumes from RGB imagery only, and is compatible with mobile devices. We believe this can serve as a useful baseline for future improvements and comparisons."