Links - May 31, 2016
- Satan's Credit Card: What The Mark Of The Beast Taught Me About The Future Of Money Charlie Warzel - BuzzFeed News
A glimpse into what money might become.
- Autoencoding Blade Runner Terence Broad - Medium
The application of these simple machine learning concepts keep impressing me more and more. Autoencoders are a very simple idea. If anything, click through to see the side-by-side video.
- Perlin noise Fuzzy Notepad
Few times does a post involving convoluted math and programming seem so clear. The diagrams help a lot, and the jump to 2D is mindblowing.
- The Unnecessariat More Crows than Eagles
An interesting take on the rise of trump. Similar to Chris Arnade’s twitter comments on the implicit understanding optionality of Trump voters, who desire volatility.
- Is Everything Wrestling? Jeremy Gordon - The New York Times
It is all a charade. At least the WWE embraces it.
- Hodor, Disability, and 'Game of Thrones': A Conversation With English Professor Lauryn S. Mayer About the Ethics of George R.R. Martin's World Spencer Kornhaber - The Atlantic
An analysis of how disabilities were seen in medieval Europe, and how those map onto the GoT world. Particularly interesting was the discussion on how mortality and disability can happen to anyone, which is unusual in literature.Spoliers ahead.
- The Rise of the Beer Can The Atlantic - Brendan Byrne
- How I used lies about a cartoon to prove history is meaningless on the internet Jordan Minor - Geek.com
Orwell would be proud.
