March 22, 2021
Mon. 03/22 - The Bakery AI Being Used For Cancer Research
The AI built to tell pastries apart that’s now being used for cancer research. It turns out a large portion of Mars’ water may be hiding in the planet’s crust. And, if one of your online orders got lost, it may now be lurking at the bottom of the ocean.
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Links:
- The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer (The New Yorker)
- Mars might be hiding most of its old water underground, scientists say (The Verge)
- Mars may hide oceans of water beneath its crust, study finds (Space)
- Where Are Those Shoes You Ordered? Check the Ocean Floor (Wired)
- The Leslie Jones Cut (Leslie Jones, Twitter)
- Live feed from Iceland volcano (RÚV)
- Incredible Drone Videos of an Erupting Volcano (Kottke)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
