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 August 26th from 13:55 to 23:21:

• The Joy Of audio logs in System Shock 2 | Rock Paper Shotgun –
• The dislike for facial recognition technology is another one of those hard to co… | Hacker News – "The dislike for facial recognition technology is another one of those hard to comprehend stances for me. The article is more like a moral call to action, it doesnt contain any facts or information or even arguments against it. All I can find is that it claims "costly errors, discrimination and privacy invasions" are the problem. How can facial recognition software possibly cause all of that? Software operation basically free, discrimination is ridiculous – if anything it helps with less discrimination, it scans everybody after all"
• Escape Pod 636: Mother Tongues – Escape Pod –
• How the brain ‘approximates’ without actually counting – "While researchers have long believed that estimating the number of objects in a visual scene is an instantaneous and parallel process with objects being scanned from one side to another, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that previous scientific wisdom on the subject is incorrect. Their new evidence, using eye-tracker data, reveals that the eyes capture information by fixating on a visual object and estimating quantities in the center of the visual field."
• Department of Health and Social Care on Twitter: “NHS Health Checks save hundreds of lives each year, but we want to further improve and personalise this service. One option, alongside face-to-face checks, is a tailored digital service. Southwark Council – “A tailored digital service”.

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 August 23rd from 16:14 to 09:44:

• Employees connect nuclear plant to the internet so they can mine cryptocurrency | ZDNet –
• ArtStation – ELYSIUM, Mitchell Stuart –
• ArtStation – Saturn Explorer, Mitchell Stuart –
• ISS Daily Summary Report – 11/16/2017 – ISS On-Orbit Status Report –
• FAA asks public not to attach guns, bombs, or flamethrowers to drones – The Verge – So I guess you don't have a second amendment right to own a gun-mounted drone, then?

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 August 21st from 16:32 to 07:35:

• Taking a look at HS2’s huge Old Oak Common station – IanVisits –
• Kegan’s Theory of the Evolution of Consciousness | Tomorrow’s Professor Postings –
• notmuch –
• Language Log » Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoon –
• Famous Experiment Dooms Pilot-Wave Alternative to Quantum Weirdness | Quanta Magazine –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for August 21st from 13:36 to 15:55:

• Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot | Ars Technica – yep, egatrek and scorched earth for me please
• My apology regarding Jeffrey Epstein — MIT Media Lab –
• December 27, 2018 CenturyLink Network Outage Report – A Report of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Federal Communications Commission – "In the early morning of December 27, 2018, CenturyLink experienced a nationwide outage on its fiber network that lasted for almost 37 hours. This outage was caused by an equipment failure catastrophically exacerbated by a network configuration error. It affected communications service providers, business customers, and consumers who directly or indirectly relied upon CenturyLink’s transport services, which route communications traffic from various providers to locations across the country, resulting in extensive disruptions to phone service, including 911 calling."
• Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman Placed on Leave – Bloomberg –
• You Have To See The Rest Of This Shot Of An F-22 Tearing Across A Stormy Chicago Skyline – The Drive –
• Leaving the MIT Media Lab – J. Nathan Matias – Medium –
• Telling Lies review: a full-motion video triumph – Polygon –
• Deep links to opt-out of data sharing by 60+ companies – Simple Opt Out –
• Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience | The New Yorker –

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 August 19th from 13:32 to 14:02:

• GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up | Hacker News –
• GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up – "The University of Oregon is developing a series of “bias probes” to analyze bias within GPT-2." – ok this is pretty interesting
• Apple Health employee departures show split over ambitions –
• Cerebras Systems unveils a record 1.2 trillion transistor chip for AI | VentureBeat –
• Why Apple’s Notification Bubbles Are so Stressful – OneZero –

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 August 18th from 10:22 to 08:52:

• Low-Boom Flight Demonstration | NASA –
• A Look Inside the X-59 QueSST Cockpit | NASA –
• Morrison floats legislation written in code | ZDNet –
• Informing Ourselves To Death –
• AI can read your emotions. Should it? | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian –
• TripAdvisor Annotated Dataset – TripAdvisor Annotated Dataset

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 August 16th from 15:46 to 12:18:

• Final Boss Form — ame-gosh: Killing Eve, but as a 1960s thriller…. – Automatic tumblr like bookmark from kenyatta
• trek-tracks: Can you imagine what happened when… – HAPPY WRATH – Automatic tumblr like bookmark from computerplaydespacito
• 70s Sci-Fi Art: Larry Ortiz – Automatic tumblr like bookmark from 70sscifiart
• Is Philanthropy Good? – Popula –
• Alone in the Dark | The Digital Antiquarian –
• WeWork and the 2010s – good recap

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 August 15th from 21:26 to 14:59:

• Onduo.com –
• Alan McLean –
• Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis — CARTO Blog – The first is that humans don’t behave based on administrative units such as zip codes, or even census units.
• Episode 931: The IT Guy Vs. The Con Artist : Planet Money : NPR –
• Inside the New York Times town hall. –

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 August 14th from 14:40 to 16:52:

• Internet TV with CU-SeeMe: Chapter 8 – History, Culture, and Usage –
• This AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans – The Verge –
• A Trip to the Pleasure Planet –
• How we can help prevent children from dying in hot cars – The Washington Post –
• Eliza explores the dangers of on-demand digital therapy – Polygon – "Removing the humanity from the act of helping humans cope is a dystopian way of solving the problem"

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 August 12th from 09:06 to 19:43:

• posters/accessibility-posters-set.pdf at master · UKHomeOffice/posters · GitHub –
• URGENT/11 Information from the Research Team – Armis Labs – It’s Tuesday, so we’re screwed again
• Launch HN: Shift Health (YC S19) – Understand Your Healthcare Costs Pre-Visit | Hacker News – More Lances than women?
• The Phony Patriots of Silicon Valley – The New York Times –
• The Mississippi Delta’s History of Black Land Theft – The Atlantic –
• Speculations on the Nenoksa Explosion – Nuclear Diner –