This week, I have been mostly writing essays and cursing the Australian higher education system. I also thought this was delightful:

• Donald Trump is like a biased machine learning algorithm — Cathy "mathbabe" O'Neil: What that translates to is a constant iterative process whereby he experiments with pushing the conversation this way or that, and he sees how the crowd responds. If they like it, he goes there. If they don’t respond, he never goes there again, because he doesn’t want to be boring. If they respond by getting agitated, that’s a lot better than being bored. That’s how he learns.