1. Things that Aren’t Working in Deep Learning by William Vorhies for Data Science Central.
  2. Hitchens’s Razor is an epistemological razor asserting that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim, and if this burden is not met, the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.
  3. The Pyrosome or The Fake Giant Worm at Spot My Dive. Today in Awesome Animals You Didn’t Know About: A Pyrosome is “[…] a colony of several hundred or even thousands of zooids, micro organisms, huddled together thanks to a kind of gelatin.”
  4. Daniel Kahneman: Your Intuition Is Wrong, Unless These 3 Conditions Are Met by Emily Zulz for Thinkadvisor. According to Kahneman, there are three required conditions to trust one’s intuition: 1. Regularity in the world that someone can pick up and learn, 2. A lot of practice, 3. Immediate feedback.
  5. The Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations by Mihai Andrei for ZME Science. Some of the most beautiful equations from ancient Greeece to modern times.
  6. Swarmlike Collective Behavior in Bicycling by Phys Org. “Using aerial video footage of bicycle races, Belden and colleagues analyzed peloton motion to determine what causes changes in the group’s large-scale collective behavior.”
  7. Novameat Develops 3D-Printed Vegan Steak from Plant-Based Proteins by Natashah Hitti for Dezeen. Bioengineer Giuseppe Scionti created a vegan steak that supposedly mimics the fibrous flesh of steaks. He can print a 100 gram steak in around 30 minutes. Dinner time!
  8. People Who are Trained in Logic are More Susceptible to My-Side Bias by Kahan et al. (2013). Perhaps it’s higher confidence in one’s own intuition skills, perhaps it’s an ability to match data to existing believes, but this study suggests logically trained people perform worse on politically charged topics.
  9. Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain by Soon et al. (2008) “We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.”
  10. A Problem in the World or a Problem in the Model by Jason Collins. “We cope with an uncertain world, not by attempting to describe it with models whose parameters and relevance we do not know, but by employing practical rules and procedures which seem to work well enough most of the time.”