Anyone who thinks any car or other material possession makes them tough, is in fact, not tough.

Knight Ridder

I should visit deadspin more often--this was the biggest laugh of my day.

I won’t link, but one conservative site already has a post up about this study shutting down an “SJW myth”... Sigh.

For people of a certain age (I graduated from college in 1985), a single shouted word from a Thomas Dolby song is running through their heads while reading this: Science!

I mean that is great and all, but the rise of the anti-vaxxers has happened almost entirely during the time frame that Tyson has been viewed as a great science communicator.

Then the question comes of who exactly this hybrid fake meat-real meat burger is for.

“Is a thing” is perhaps the most over-used Millennial phrase in existence...

Superb banter this week; I was laughing.

The C3 was in production from the time I was a toddler until I got out of high school, so for me (those are formative years for noticing cars, right?) the Coke bottle shape was the Corvette.

What?! Make America greater again!

Right, a genetic algorithm. (I didn’t mean to sound condescending with my earlier comment--wearing my computer science professor hat at the time.)

Anyway, this was an exhilarating journey and I thank you for joining me on it. My wrath monster will be satisfied for at least another week.

She should try stealing bicycles instead.

One of the reasons DeepMind was able to do well on SC 2 is because of the availability of data to train on: half a million games played by humans, plus an environment where it could play millions of more games against itself. It’s totally impressive! But not an approach that generalizes well without those factors.

Many of us can’t sleep on a plane, which means we *can’t sleep on a plane,* including if it’s an overnight flight.

Please write an article about comma splices, I hate them.

Actors, musicians, celebrities in general. Sure, there are lots of exceptions, but they’re exceptions.

I was pretty amazed when I found out that you can buy used tires again. I thought that whole business died out 20 years ago.

Yeah, I was exaggerating; I do adjust my tip based on service and such.