Interesting Links for 05-12-2015
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- Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.
- If I Reacted to Other People’s Careers the Way They React to Me Becoming a Mathematician
- As a computer person, I think this applies to a whole bunch of jobs.
- How Stoya took on James Deen and broke the porn industry's silence
- Jeremy Corbyn now abandoned by everyone apart from ‘voters’
- A cautionary tale about finding surprisingly clean bones
- Explaining the 'ratchet mechanism' within the Paris climate deal
- The best of the #forthroadbridge memes
- Peter Capaldi interview: 'Sexism in the TV industry is ridiculous' (and lots of interesting snippets)
- Stone Sculptures on The Water of Leith
- People low in agreeableness ("jerks") are particularly adept at selling their creative ideas