The Weekly Weird - 2018-08-17
- Movies love the trope: a boring meeting is interrupted by everyone's phones going off at once and you know Something Has Happened. Turns out, that's exactly what actually happens. (Content warning: gore, terrorism, French). It's also a great look at how preparation and pre-deciding really work when shit gets real.
- Another day, another speculative execution attack. Ho hum.
- Some neat analysis of gender trends in cities: nyc and sf.
- A color 3d printer.
- Not getting tracked online is really hard (pdf).
- Too much CO2 in your air? Make rocks with it! It would take 80 billion tons of this to match our carbon emissions but global coal production is ~8 billion tons which is many fewer orders of magnitude away than I would have guessed.
- Do AI nerual networks build the same kind of patterns as biological ones? It sure looks like it.
- Or, mayonnaise is actually disgusting and that's why nobody buys it. Fight me.