Interesting Links for 15-04-2018

[andrewducker]

Finding a church hidden in the woods

(tags: religion photos forests )

Trying to apply AlphaGo AI to a modern board game doesn't produce great results

(tags: viaSwampers games ai )

Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana

(tags: marijuana legalisation usa GoodNews )

How would you know if there was a civilization on Earth before humans?

(tags: prehistory earth )

In an alternate universe, the first use of physics in a video game was to simulate boiling water. Thirty years later, AAA games have cornered the market in realistic physics-based cooking games. Meanwhile...

(tags: cooking games funny satire )

Archaeologists Find Ancient Knife-Hand Prosthesis On Medieval Warrior

(tags: history weaponry )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The church reminds me of Dode Chapel in the Cuxton Valley down in Kent- given your origins which are similar to mine, I don't know if you ever saw it?

[andrewducker]

Sadly not - the photos look nice though. (Looks like it was done up again starting in 1990, which is the year I fled to Scotland)

[redbird]

The legal marijuana article says that this may only apply to Colorado, whose Republican senator was using parliamentary tactics. (Also, the other senator from Colorado is quoted as pointing out that Trump changes his mind constantly.) It's the LA Times, so they emphasize that things are still uncertain for California, but that also applies in Washington state, Alaska, etc.

(I live in Massachusetts, where we're supposed to be getting legalization this summer, but a lot of details are still fuzzy.)

[randomdreams]

>"Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana"

This week. Next week, when someone else with a moral crusade and a zillion dollars invested in private prisons sufficiently bribes contributes to campaign funds, it'll come lurching back like a zombie.

[dewline]

What's that phrase of Paul Krugman's for ideas that should die but don't ever go away after being discredited?

Zombie ideas, right?

[randomdreams]

Yes, although I'm not sure he invented the term. I have a fifteen year old book that is devoted to the zombie ideas that were in vogue in economics at the time.