Stumbled across 24th August 2013
- The much-vaunted Hyperloop looks really cool, if it could ever be built: https://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/hyperloop-a-theoretical-760-mph-transit-system-made-of-sun-air-and-magnets/
- But it may be a bit too half-baked: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/
- I love a good visualisation: http://nickolaylamm.com/art-for-clients/what-if-you-could-see-wifi/
- I laughed pretty much constantly through this piece of bureaucracy-hacking: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/08/the_kindly_brontosaurus_the_amazing_prehistoric_posture_that_will_get_you.html
- This is a problem with the Internet of Things as well as with mind-computer interfaces: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134682-hackers-backdoor-the-human-brain-successfully-extract-sensitive-data
- Wow - it’s possible to represent words as vectors so that vector(‘Paris’) - vector(‘France’) + vector(‘Italy’) results in a vector that is very close to vector(‘Rome’): https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
- Let there be food: http://web.archive.org/web/20150219023941/http://thisiswhyyourefat.kinja.com/cadbury-creme-eggs-benedict-230182670
- One of the manifold reasons why the USA’s TSA should be scrapped: https://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/2013/08/22/dont-fly-during-ramadan
- An excellent witty dialogue between some experts in their respective fields: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/08/21/five-math-experts-split-the-check/
- How to disagree correctly: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
