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2022-08-21T11:30:44.0000000+01:00	patrick	stumbled_across	true	2013-08-24T00:00:00Z	/stumbled_across/stumbled-across-4/ /stumbled-across-24-august-2013/	Stumbled across 24th August 2013

• The much-vaunted Hyperloop looks really cool, if it could ever be built: https://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/hyperloop-a-theoretical-760-mph-transit-system-made-of-sun-air-and-magnets/
• But it may be a bit too half-baked: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2013/08/13/loopy-ideas-are-fine-if-youre-an-entrepreneur/
• I love a good visualisation: http://nickolaylamm.com/art-for-clients/what-if-you-could-see-wifi/
• I laughed pretty much constantly through this piece of bureaucracy-hacking: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/08/the_kindly_brontosaurus_the_amazing_prehistoric_posture_that_will_get_you.html
• This is a problem with the Internet of Things as well as with mind-computer interfaces: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134682-hackers-backdoor-the-human-brain-successfully-extract-sensitive-data
• Wow - it's possible to represent words as vectors so that vector('Paris') - vector('France') + vector('Italy') results in a vector that is very close to vector('Rome'): https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
• Let there be food: http://web.archive.org/web/20150219023941/http://thisiswhyyourefat.kinja.com/cadbury-creme-eggs-benedict-230182670
• One of the manifold reasons why the USA's TSA should be scrapped: https://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/2013/08/22/dont-fly-during-ramadan
• An excellent witty dialogue between some experts in their respective fields: http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/08/21/five-math-experts-split-the-check/
• How to disagree correctly: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html