Issue 2020-W46

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This week has been about a traffic simulator, obsolete media, 3D human shapes and ownership semantics.

# The Fatal Flaw of Ownership Semantics

An article on the implications of Ownership Semantics' linear nature and the solutions based on indices/handlers.

# PIFuHD: Multi-Level Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution 3D Human Digitization

An implementation in pytorch of a deep neural network model to extrude 3D human shapes from a single image.

# Obsolete Media Museum

A collection of obsolete media formats.

# A/B Street

A traffic simulator exploring how small changes affect the movement of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

# Contract for the Web

An initiative by Tim Berners-Lee to try to make the online world safe and empowering for everyone.

# How does Firefox's Reader View work?

An article analysing how the Reader View feature in Firefox works.