Article here , and you can try out the AI itself here. And fnord starts a duel between the picture-based-on-caption AI and the caption-based-on-picture AI. Overcoming Bias on the newest theory for why big firms are pulling away from others: proprietary backroom IT. Also, all emergency medicine doctors are now at severe risk of being plagued by the vengeful dead. Peter McCluskey of Bayesian Investor, who unlike me actually knows stuff about economics, reviews Piketty , is able to be much more critical of some of his claims like the ones about the ultra-rich getting better investment returns than everyone else.
Attempted drone assassination of Venezuelan president fails, but probably a sign of things to come as more and more private citizens become capable of building their own assassination drones. Last month, Indian scientists reported the development of a room-temperature superconductor. After that, the story gets weird and possibly fraudulent. I quit Twitter a while ago and am almost tempted to try Mastodon now. Is this intentional? Students and student groups boycotting Israel are facing weirder and harder-line tactics than ever , including some kind of sinister organization of people in canary costumes who are apparently trying to signal threats but only insofar as you can signal threat by showing up and dancing in a canary costume.
Other groups put photos and information of anti-Israel activists online along with descriptions of how they are racist and anti-Semitic. I assume this is a sign of things to come after every issue becomes approximately this heated, though maybe not the weird dancing canary people in particular.
Some rare and probably irrelevant climate good news: UK carbon emissions are now back below levels. But then how did the Nazi Party get so much support so quickly? Berkeley police get in trouble for tweeting the names and mugshots of antifa protesters arrested during dueling antifa and alt-right protests earlier this month. A study of the distribution of spatial intelligence around the world shows that it pretty much matches the distribution of regular intelligence around the world, with some surprises.
East Asia does less overwhelmingly well than it does in a lot of regular intelligence tests. Countries with less gender equality have a higher male-female gap in spatial intelligence, which remember is the opposite pattern as they show in percent women seeking high-spatial-intelligence-requiring traditionally male jobs. New antimalarial bed net works better than older bed nets, is effective against otherwise-resistant strains of the disease. Polygenic scores branch out into detecting risk for conditions like heart disease and diabetes.
