Interesting Links for 05-12-2015

Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.

(tags: neurons ai maths )

If I Reacted to Other People’s Careers the Way They React to Me Becoming a Mathematician

As a computer person, I think this applies to a whole bunch of jobs.
(tags: jobs funny )

How Stoya took on James Deen and broke the porn industry’s silence

(tags: porn rape )

Jeremy Corbyn now abandoned by everyone apart from ‘voters’

(tags: Labour satire )

A cautionary tale about finding surprisingly clean bones

(tags: bone ants )

Explaining the ‘ratchet mechanism’ within the Paris climate deal

(tags: globalwarming )

The best of the #forthroadbridge memes

(tags: bridge Scotland Edinburgh meme funny )

Peter Capaldi interview: ‘Sexism in the TV industry is ridiculous’ (and lots of interesting snippets)

(tags: drwho sexism acting )

Stone Sculptures on The Water of Leith

(tags: Edinburgh sculpture rivers )

People low in agreeableness (“jerks”) are particularly adept at selling their creative ideas

(tags: personality creativity psychology )