2021-06-11 Nerd Roundup
James Grenning and Jon Kern join the roundup today as we tour a cornucopia of nerd news from the previous week. At the end, James takes us on a tour of a cool new app he's using to do online coding training.
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| Eric W and UAPs | Interesting watching him come around on this issue. Mainstream science is changing opinion here |
| Neural Actor: Neural Free-view Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control | One of many pieces for the fully fake universe is coming into place |
| The Military’s Mobile Nuclear Reactor Prototype Is Set To Begin Taking Shape | It's about time. This is only 30-40 years later than it should have been (along with reusable rockets) |
| Publish and Perish | Detailed and convincing look at how the "game of science" has diverged so far from science itself |
| Famous Feynman quote | Something probably needs to be added to this about kooks and cross-disciplinary behavior. The process of never admitting you're wrong is a gradual one, not a yes/no switch |
| Nuclear clocks could out do atomic clocks as the most precise timepieces | This is some truly amazing stuff |
| Quatum leap caught in the act | (related) |
| Where do meteorites come from? A new study challenges popular theory | Where is this mystery planet? Theory of the planet/sun that comes thru every now and then and wipes out species might be relevant to this |
| Why Zebras Were Never Domesticated | My dreams of a pet zebra dashed. Interesting that's it's technically possible and that it's been tried/done so many times before. Cool pics |
| Somehow This Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc | What sort of evilness is this? |
| The pedantic checklist for changing your data model | Motherhood and apple pie, but good to keep around for folks who haven't been here |
| Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness | Interested in trying one of these, comparing it to the Great Courses stuff I've been consuming foerever |
| Wingman Software | Gather town looks cool! Let's walk thru it and see what James has been doing |
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