Magicians versus artificial intelligences, musical anhedonia, communication with extraterrestrials, and lunar tardigrades, among many other great things, all compiled in a brand new edition of the Recommended Links of the Week. If you miss it, you lose.
Can a magician 'deceive' an Artificial Intelligence?: "Every time a magician performs a magic trick, they are 'hacking' our perception and applying centuries of practical knowledge about how we look, what we pay attention to, and which cognitive biases can be exploited to leave us speechless. But, could they deceive a machine that lacks these biases?"
Musical anhedonia, when your brain is incapable of feeling anything with music: "Several musicians wrote to us saying they played an instrument very well, that they were technically good, but they felt nothing when doing it, that they didn't enjoy it emotionally," says Marco. They presumably had specific musical anhedonia.
How would we communicate with an alien?: "What references could be common across the universe? One obvious one would be mathematics. Any developed civilization must be able to count, and if they count, they know there are numbers that are only divisible by 1 or themselves, namely prime numbers."
From regret to forgiveness. What do we regret most?: "With the facts done, when we know the outcome, it is very easy to say "if I could go back, I would do it differently". However, that mistake, that unexpected outcome, is the basis of the right decisions we will make in the future."
The fat point theorem: "When drawing by hand, the imprecision of the instruments and the lack of skill of novice draftsmen meant that circles and lines were not exactly tangent, but something was always missing or left over for this to happen. To avoid redoing the entire problem, the draftsman resorted to marking the point of tangency by filling the space between the two lines, creating a 'fat point'."
The tyranny of time, and how the bushmen freed themselves from it: "Some anthropologists have asked themselves these same questions about time, and they have sought answers as best they know how: with the tools of their discipline. And when they have analyzed the temporal perspectives and historical memory of certain egalitarian hunter-gatherer cultures, such as the San bushmen of the Kalahari or the Hazda of Tanzania, they have been astonished at what seemed to them a widespread phenomenon of amnesia."
They calculate how much it would cost to block the Tor network with a DDoS attack: "Tor Browser, and basically using the Tor network to browse, is one of the safest options we have at our disposal, since we can browse completely anonymously without leaving a trace, as well as access Onion addresses on the Deep Web. However, a group of researchers wanted to calculate how much it would cost to block access, and they have discovered that any country has enough resources to do so."
From being worth 1.1 billion to 3, the sinking of Tumblr, the website that succeeded thanks to porn: "Tumblr no longer has porn and has sunk both in visits and financial value. There are those who believe that the relationship between the two is evident. Are they right? Not exactly. This is a journey through the rise and fall of Tumblr and the real implication porn has had in all this."
Iceberg hunters in search of the purest water on the planet: "Every morning, at dawn, the 60-year-old captain of the ship Green Waters sails with his three sailors to harvest what has become their white gold: Greenland's ice along the 'iceberg corridor'. For over 20 years he has been extracting water and selling it to local merchants who bottle it, mix it with alcohol, or use it to make cosmetics."
The controversy of the lunar tardigrades: "Many have asked critics to just shut up and not be party poopers. After all, what does it matter. The Moon is a dry wasteland without an atmosphere, bathed in energetic particles and subjected to extreme temperatures. Tardigrades have no chance of surviving in the lunar regolith even if they were ejected by the impact. Furthermore, the Moon is full of human waste from the Apollo missions, including feces."
The stinking reality about hygiene on Spanish warships in the 19th century: "As if that were not enough, fresh water was scarce on the ships. In fact, thirst was usually quenched with other types of brews that were easier to store (and more spirited) such as wine. The liquid element was so precious that it was not used for baths or to clean uniforms. Sailors had to prepare their clothes with what they could extract from the sea and could go without bathing for up to two months. This generated a pestilent stench and the appearance of certain diseases such as scabies."
Coinbase already has a bunker under a mountain to guard your bitcoins: "In reality that vault under a mountain in Attinghausen (Switzerland) does not store 'coins' or banknotes as such, but cryptographic keys. The keys that give owners of these cryptocurrencies access to their funds, to their 'cryptocurrency wallets' or wallets. The value of those cryptocurrencies managed by Coinbase exceeds 7 billion dollars according to some estimates, and will make Coinbase a clear reference in an increasingly important field for those who invest in these types of markets."
Videos
Videos: The sounds of Mortal Kombat, cat breaking everything, floating carp, classical music by various composers, Earth's rotation, how flat a kitten can get, jump from a plane wing, enters through a small opening, the dead squirrel attack, MRI of an atom, migration of mattresses, Max Cooper - Perpetual Motion, screen time of each Avenger, Pump It Up super hard in co-op, LUKHASH - WALKMAN, ufff, the truck is leaving, pomeranian puppy at the groomer, time-lapse of stadium for concert, Pi visualization, Russian pilots in joint maneuver, pigeon flight in slow motion, eclipse in Chile, the history of software development, what's inside a kangaroo pouch, waves in the kayak, and the short films SPACE SHARKS (2019), Sam (animated), the Adventure Time pilot, and a guy who sits in front of the camera and smiles for eight hours.
Galleries
Galleries: Joseph Ducreux and his meme, Lutsenko's dolls, Pokémon terrarium, ironing to the extreme, lazy animals, scenes from medieval books, famous Hollywood twins then and now, the best photos of the Royal Photographic Society, the art of Matteo Pugliese, Hikaru Cho's makeup, the story of the Little Mermaid, Tarantino's heroines as pin-ups, 3D drawings on hands, the hyperrealism of Young Sung Kim, the Animated Dump of the Week and the immortal Visual Dump.
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