Some lunchtime reading:
New Laws Explain Why Fast Growing Networks Break- Wired
Last month, United Airlines grounded nearly 5,000 flights when its computer system crashed. The culprit: a faulty network router. Later on the same morning, another computer glitch halted trading on the New York Stock Exchange for over three hours…
Researchers usually think of network connectivity as happening in a slow, continuous manner, similar to the way water moves through freshly ground coffee beans, slowly saturating all the granules to become coffee in the container below. However, over the past few years, researchers have discovered that in special cases, connectivity might emerge with a bang, not a whimper, via a phenomenon they have dubbed ‘explosive percolation.’
8 innovations that will transform global health by 2030 – TechInsider – “A new report from global health nonprofit PATH looks into 30 emerging global health innovations that will further transform the healthcare landscape by 2030. Selected from over 500 ideas submitted by healthcare experts around the world (including many from low and middle-income countries), these innovations could save countless lives over the years.”
The Future of Work and Workers – Pacific Standard
HitchBOT Gets Mugged in ‘City of Brotherly Love’ En Route to San Francisco- Re/code
Self-Driving Cars To Cause Car Insurance Industry Revenue Plunge – Future Pundit
A Robot Cambrian Explosion? – Arnold Kling
Machine Learning And Human Bias: An Uneasy Pair- TechCrunch – “Like so many technologies, machine learning itself is value neutral, but the final applications will reflect the problems, preferences and worldviews of the creators.”
BoardVitals Raises $1.1 Million To Make It Easier For You To Become A Doctor- TechCrunch | “It’s not only about new technology, it’s about building a new ecosystem for Medical Education,” said co-founder Dan Lambert…”
Risk in the Viking Age – RealClearScience and the University of York – “Dr Ashby said: ‘I wanted to try to discover what would make a young chieftain invest in the time and resources for such a risky venture. And what were the motives of his crew? […] [Raiding] was an opportunity to build reputations for skill, reliability, cunning, or courage. Just as leaders of raiding parties stood to gain more than portable wealth, so too their followers could seek intangible social capital from participation.’”
Sarah Gustafson is an Editorial Assistant and blogger for the AEIdeas Blog.
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