Holy shit
Jetmen Fly Wing-to-Wing With an Airbus A380 Above Dubai
This is so mind-blowing to watch that it makes you feel strangely peaceful, as though suddenly aware of your own insignificance. Or something.
Good writing
Good music
Floating Points: Elaenia review – 'a soaring, beautiful electronic jazz journey'
Yeah I know this is the sixth thing in the newsletter but a) I am extremely proud of my friend Sam and b) it's my newsletter. Oh and the album just came out today so, you know, I'm being current.
Mmm Technology
Nobody Buys DVDs Anymore, So...
The BBC is putting its back-catalogue of programmes online for people to buy and keep forever. It will be called BBC Store and so far has 7,000 hours of material on it, but there are plans to add more from an archive of four million items.
How Machine Learning Works, As Explained By Google
If we're not careful machine-learning will be the end of us all. So if we're going to defeat it, we first must understand it.
As an aside, Tesla are using it to power their autopilot system. Does anybody else think it's weird that it's become acceptable to release cars in beta, such that when they veer into oncoming traffic the CEO just says, "Yeah we'll release an update to correct that"? Would he say that if one of his cars had hit a schoolbus? Happy Friday.