Links for 2022-07-18
Very disturbing (check the before and after photo): The Perils of Audience Capture: How influencers become brainwashed by their audiences https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-audience-capture
“In 1979, Roger Penrose said the number-one problem in general relativity is how to determine the mass within a region of space-time. A definition of angular momentum ranked second on Penrose’s list. Now both of these problems have been solved.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/mass-and-angular-momentum-left-ambiguous-by-einstein-get-defined-20220713
Neural processes predetermine behavior before conscious choice: "We developed a neural prosthetic piano...However, while playing the piano, the participant sometimes reported that “the keys just automatically hit themselves without me thinking about it...This example highlights how neural prosthetic systems decoding neural signals from high-level regions of cortex can execute actions before the user explicitly intends movement." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222004420
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
"China Securities Regulatory Commission is implementing changes to its rules … requiring foreign-owned fund managers such as BlackRock and Fidelity to create [internal] Communist Party cells when operating in China." [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.ph/KyXdK
Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652
“The developers of neural networks, a powerful methodology in artificial intelligence, drew inspiration from the human brain, with its webs of connected neurons. Now, neural networks are returning the favor, helping us to understand our own brains.” https://annualreports.simonsfoundation.org/2021/insect-brain-connectomes-courtesy-of-ai/
How much of the air you're breathing is air someone else exhaled? The higher the CO2 readings, the more virus particles are potentially in the air. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/470690/whose-breath-are-you-breathing
Universal covid vaccines? We could have them very soon, if it weren’t for bureaucratic roadblocks. https://www.slowboring.com/p/we-could-have-universal-covid-vaccines
The end of a set of belts can be continuously rotated without becoming twisted or tangled: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-twister_mechanism