Flying Horses here, and there, and in the abstract.
Speaking of Mongolian, here are some guys speaking (well, singing) Mongolian: Yuve Yuve Yu.
Soon you’ll be able to get a checking account from Google
unless you’re a Nazi
or a homophoboe, transphobe, racist, bigot, misogynist, fascist, Islamophobe, or hater, I assume. But if you’re tolerant and accepting of everyone then check out Google’s plans to offer checking accounts next year.
Not quite a singularity
Beware the Mediocre Robots, says some guy.
The title reminds me of a cartoon by B. Kliban(?): A farmer sees a couple of seedy aliens stumble from a dilapidated flying saucer. They say, “Greetings Earthling! We are emissaries from a third-rate planet!”
Think better
Don’t use the Wrong criteria.
Links
- A Roman ring with “Pilato” on it found in Israel?
- OS/2 Warp: A tribute
- Maine Governor Moving to Florida for Lower Taxes. Nice for him that he can afford to move to Florida. It seems like the people who make the rules can usually avoid their consequences.
Haven’t read these next two, just linking for convenience:
DIY air purifier
Academia and Big Tech
Thinking Like An Algorithm
Party planner
Instead of a bouncy castle, how about a Kubota U25 compact excavator?
Female programmers
Why aren’t there more female programmers? There are fewer now than there were thirty years ago, says a respondent.
UPDATE 21 May 2017: About the movie Hidden Figures: “NASA, like all federal agencies, was desegregated in the 1940s.”
