Interesting Links for 05-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. How calculus was invented

(tags:mathematics history video infinity )

2. Scientists discover first known organism thriving exclusively on diet of viruses

(tags:virus food )

3. Surgical smart knife detects womb cancer in seconds

(tags:cancer )

4. Me, when my code doesn't work

(tags:funny babies anger video )

5. Scientists Revived 32,000-Year-Old Plant DNA From Siberian Permafrost

(tags:plants prehistory Russia )

6. Over the last 40 years US food purchasing power has dropped by 85%

(tags:USA food money Doom )

7. Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana (and doesn't look like the criminal)

(tags:racism faces technology OhForFucksSake )

8. The "People Of Color In Tech" website provides an interesting perspective if you're not one.

(tags:race technology )

9. Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery

Paper here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
(tags:prehistory calendars art )

10. Arizona inducing labor of pregnant prisoners against their will

(tags:usa prison labour childbirth OhForFucksSake )

11. Using AI to make all of your arrays infinite

(tags:ai coding funny )

Comments

[mellowtigger]

#6 Finally, somebody else is measuring the economy in terms of food per hour of labor. I've been harping about inequality since the Occupy camp.

[simont]

I initially misread the title of #10 as "Amazon" rather than "Arizona" – and it was only slightly implausible as a result!

[andrewducker]

Sadly true

[ckd]

They do put quite a bit of effort towards on-time deliveries, so....

[agoodwinsmith]

#3 - could we please have a non-invasive diagnostic tool, first? Argh.

[andrewducker]

We've got plenty of tools that will give us a pretty good idea. But if you want to be sure you need to actually test it, which means being inside a person.

And this is for testing someone during the surgery you're doing to remove the cancer - allowing them to tell whether they need to remove specific bits.