Funny Machine Learning Outcomes

A great list...

Would you like a giant list of times that ML systems learned to do the thing by hacking some bug you didn't realize your system had? Yes you would. Because it's hilarious. https://t.co/qN2FYpUy8e

— Andromeda Yelton (@ThatAndromeda) January 9, 2019

Including such instance classics:

"In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children)."

Or:

"A  robotic arm trained to slide a block to a target position on a table achieves the goal by moving the table itself."

Via @ItsRobbAllen

Augmented vs. Virtual

That's not a bad way to look at it...

You can boil it down to - VR is for fun, AR is for work

— Jordan (@lead_proSapien) January 7, 2019

Lord British is a robot!

Lifehacker does a "How I Work" series and asks people about their hacks, battle stations, tools, etc. They recently interviewed Richard Garriott aka Lord British. I had not thought about Ultima in a long time. And it was interesting to read about his use of a tele-presence robot.

Saturn V Lamp

This Saturn V lamp is amazing. 

Via @ItsRobbAllen

Ham Licenses

It's been a year since I posted an update on the Ham licenses chart.

Up: Extra, General, Tech, and Total

This is a high water mark for all three classes and overall licenses. Total was 748,136 at the end of 2017.

Down: Advanced and Novice
Advanced and Novice will only go down since no new licenses are being issued for these classes.

Month	Extra	Advanced	General	Technician	Novice	ARS Total
Dec-18	147,369	39,607	175,949	384,145	8,360	755,430
Nov-18	147,131	39,718	175,750	383,674	8,410	754,681
Oct-18	146,892	39,828	175,550	383,202	8,459	753,931
Sep-18	146,777	40,001	175,396	382,886	8,489	753,549
Aug-18	146,567	40,155	175,210	382,580	8,544	753,054

Hero Forge

Pretty cool... Hero Forge - Custom Miniatures.

They will send you the 3D printer file, or 3D print your design for you, or even create a bronze or steel miniature.

I designed this one with just a few clicks.

National Signing Day

Local Ham Signs With Yaesu https://t.co/pkD35LFPa9 pic.twitter.com/OqVXjvNW8m

— Ham Hijinks (@HamHijinks) December 19, 2018

3,000,000+ Page Views

The site went over 3,000,000 page views this morning - despite my severe lack of posting in the last year or so.

A Reason to Keep Facebook

You can watch Buffy!



Via Lifehacker

Quotes of the Day

Leaders must be willing to act with incomplete information.

You will never have enough data to remove all anxiety.

The world is simply too complex.

— The Stoic Emperor (@TheStoicEmperor) October 29, 2018

Many fear judgement more than failure.

— The Stoic Emperor (@TheStoicEmperor) October 29, 2018