It looks like a lovely day for it…
Category Archives: Linkspam
Linkspam: MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder
Apparently the hot new things is to train your A.I. on Reddit – something that doesn’t have a particularly great track record…
LinkSpam: Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter
Arstechnica has a nice little interview with John Romero about some of his early work on 3D shooters. And if you enjoyed that, then I’d also recommend Masters of Doom.
Linkspam: The Man Who Killed Google Search
Ed Zitron’s polemic into the origins of Google Search’s increasingly visible rot is worth a read.
A Game Boy Camera to FaceTime Bridge
Completely impractical but with a delightfully retro output, this Game Boy Camera to FaceTime bridge is really rather neat.
A Chocolate Telescope
It looks good enough to eat…
Aliens
Very true.
Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 Filming Locations
Visual Mutterings has quite a nice guide to Yorkshire’s Blake’s 7 filming locations. It sounds like an entirely successful trip!
Astronomical Engineering: A Strategy for Modifying Planetary Orbits
The Sun’s gradual brightening will seriously compromise the Earth’s biosphere within ~ 1E9 years. If Earth’s orbit migrates outward, however, the biosphere could remain intact over the entire main-sequence lifetime of the Sun.
D. G. Korycansky, Gregory Laughlin, Fred C. Adams
Apparently the solution to everything getting warmer is to just move the planet.