The Rundown April 22, 2021 — Lateral Vectors

How to outrun a dinosaur - So that sequence in Jurassic park (where the Tyrannosaurus chases a vehicle but gives up after a while ) does make sense after all.
Designing online assessments to minimize cheating - I am still amazed by the lengths through which some students will try to game the system or cheat outright.
The Internet Archive hosts a beautiful collection of art and historical documents from the University of Tokyo.
AI tries to generate pickup lines:

Once upon a time I decided to train a neural net to generate pickup lines. Once I started collecting the training data I began to regret it when I saw how awful the existing lines were. Turns out I needn’t have worried. The neural net I used was so small and clueless that its pickup lines were mostly incoherent and confusing.

Supreme Court Ruling in Google v. Oracle: - No ruling as to the copyright-ability of APIs, but Court found that Google’s use fell within the four factors of fair use. Each API use case would still have to weighed on a case-by-case basis, but the ruling is still a win for software developers.