Thought vectors

More excellent mind-blowing thinking today. Google is taking the technology that it used to generate Google Translate (which doesn’t really understand languages) and applying it to thoughts. “If you take the vector for Paris and subtract the vector for France...

Threat models

This is hilarious and so true. Security types read and learn. Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from...

Obesity is incurable

Wow. One of those rare change your opinion reads (for me, of course, YMMV). A must read and the devastating summary I’d select is this: …the terrible truth is that, except through surgery, for the great majority of sufferers, obesity is an incurable...
The Sikhs who saved Parmesan – BBC News

The Sikhs who saved Parmesan – BBC News

What a great and totally unexpected combination. What do Punjab and the Po Valley have in common? More than you might imagine, which is why Sikhs have played a key role in Italian cheese-making. Source: The Sikhs who saved Parmesan – BBC News