Interesting Links for 07-02-2017

[andrewducker]

Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix

(tags: maths computers gambling )

British people answer: "What are some legit "Very British problems"?

(tags: uk culture )

Donald Trump will not be allowed to address Parliament on UK state visit, Speaker John Bercow says

(tags: uk parliament )

Why the science of nutrition is so messy.

(tags: diet food nutrition viaNWhyte )

Stop talking about "regulations" and start talking about "protections"

(tags: language politics )

Wildlife photographers with wildlife on them

(tags: wildlife nature photography cute )

Why we'll never see Deep Space Nine Or Voyager on Blu-ray

(tags: StarTrek tv )

Successful application of Vasalgel male contraceptive in monkeys

(tags: contraception monkeys men )

Go, Unemployment, and Moraility: Notes From The Asilomar Conference On Beneficial AI

(tags: ai morality jobs employment )

“Donaeld The Unready” tweets as if Trump is a mad medieval king

(tags: politics satire history )

Longest ever personality study finds no correlation between measures taken at age 14 and age 77

(tags: personality psychology )

Kyra Poh: The 14-year-old girl who's the 'fastest flyer'

(tags: flight awesome )

Comments

[darjeeling]

Great batch of links today!

[frith]

So personality test results change radically between the ages of 14 and 77. What also changes radically is how people are treated by others, from being treated as a clever pet at age 14 to a respected elder at age 77. People are a product of their environment and the results of this study should not come as a surprise given that social environment varies with age.

[birguslatro]

As someone who's only a decade and a bit off 77, it's hard to say how similar or otherwise I am to the fourteen-year-old me. Society's certainly changed a huge amount, and I'm sure I care a lot less about what society thinks of me now than I did at 14. One thing I'm sure that hasn't changed though is that I've remained an introvert. I've always hated large social gatherings.

You can make a good guess as to how someone will do in life up to their late 30s if you assess them when they're 3 though...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/12/high-social-cost-adults-can-be-identified-from-as-young-as-three-says-study

Maybe it's just that nothing useful can come from studying fourteen-year-olds. :)