Entries from June 2016 ↓

• The Screenwriter of “E.T.” and “The BFG” Says Goodbye – The New Yorker
• Fidelity Just Made Buying an Index Fund Vanguard-Cheap – WSJ
• Flagsheep Or Bust | Semi Sweetness
• Mike Davidson on Twitter: ""With big, bold notes of caramel & an almost fudge-like texture, this cheese will drastically improve your life." 👍 https://t.co/bB9nATcP8I"
• All the open source code in GitHub now shared within BigQuery: Analyze all the code! — Medium
• Twitter
  RT @dandouglas: tfw you’ve had enough of "experts" and promise to take back control and restore former glory
• Bill Plaschke: I regret marginalizing Pat Summitt’s greatness – LA Times
• Research Blog: Wide & Deep Learning: Better Together with TensorFlow

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• David J. Wingrave: The Brexit Delusion – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
• San Francisco Magazine | Modern Luxury | The Outsiders
• The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness | Mother Jones
• GitHub – campoy/embedmd: embedmd: embed code into markdown and keep everything in sync
• Instagram + Android: Four Years Later — Instagram Engineering
• The Pretty Damn Complete Collection of Publicly Available FBI Files : Federal Bureau of Investigation : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

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• Amazon Kindle Learns to Navigate Literary Thickets – NYTimes.com
• Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech
• Untitled (http://www.fastcompany.com/3061354/the-future-of-work/black-girls-code-is-moving-into-googles-new-york-offices)
  RT @6Gems: Black Girls Code Is Moving Into Google’s New York Offices
• Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York | Technology | The Guardian
  RT @TheAIGames: Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
• Twitter
  hah, was waiting for this word to appear in the American press (cc @simonmeacham )
• Twitter
  RT @BuzzFeedOz: Great Barrier Reef in crisis: “It’s just terrible. Horrific.” @simoncrerar
• Great Barrier Reef In Crisis: “It’s Just Terrible. Horrific.”
  RT @BuzzFeedOz: Great Barrier Reef in crisis: “It’s just terrible. Horrific.” @simoncrerar
• Bros Before Homes | New Republic
  On the subtle sexism of men who praise experiences over stuff.
• YPE html> So Hey You Should Stop Using Texts for Two-Factor Authentication | WIRED
• How to get engineering teams to eat their vegetables — Medium
• How To Keep Stack Overflow from Turning Into a Landfill | Motherboard
• GitHub Archive fully updated, notice some breaking changes — Medium
  RT @felipehoffa: GitHub Archive on BigQuery fully updated, notice some breaking changes.
  (@igrigorik @arfon)
• GitHub Archive fully updated, notice some breaking changes — Medium
• Sandeep Dinesh on Twitter: "Missed my Building #microservices w/ @kubernetesio and @grpcio talk? That’s cool. You can watch it here: https://t.co/APNEsBtj9X"
• Google Developers Blog: TensorFlow v0.9 now available with improved mobile support
  RT @googledevs: TensorFlow v0.9 is out, and now with iOS and Raspberry Pi support! #tensorflow

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• Edward Snowden’s Life As a Robot — NYMag
• Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning 👾 💭 💕
• Twitter
  RT @Rschooley: Look at today’s Houston Chronicle news round up. Nope, no gun problems in Texas.
• 11 Facts From Down Under About Vegemite | Mental Floss
• Typographic Maps — San Francisco
• All about the base | The Economist
• Brexit crisis won’t end for years – and no one is taking responsibility | Politics | The Guardian

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• An astute online comment has some wondering whether Brexit may ever happen – The Washington Post
• Difference between Data Mining and Statistics
• Your donations help end homelessness – Invisible People
• Byline | Field Notes
• Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem – The New York Times
• Can the Monster Be Elected? by Michael Tomasky | The New York Review of Books
• The Professor of Baseball – The New Yorker
• Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance – The New Yorker
• European Leaders Tell a Dazed Britain to Get Going on ‘Brexit’ – NYTimes.com
• ‘Brexit’ in America: A Warning Shot Against Globalization – The New York Times
• Jérôme Petazzoni on Twitter: "Some Dockerfile commands you probably don’t know, courtesy of @garethr at #dockercon: https://t.co/gSusDvw6DO"
• Mobile Post-Production: Editing Your Photos – Skillshare
• 50+ Photography Resources Worth Bookmarking
• ‘This Is Not My Party’: George Will Goes from GOP to Unaffiliated | PJ Media
• Philip Pullman on the 1,000 causes of Brexit | Books | The Guardian
• Cancer Is Contagious Among Clams. What About Us? – The New York Times
• Optogenetics Lights Up Therapeutic Neuroscience – Scientific American
• Neural net photography tweaks go mobile with Prisma on iOS
• Premier Docker and Kubernetes Bootcamp: free pre-registration, Mountain View, CA, August 9-10, 2016
• Brexit: The Morning After – NYTimes.com
• How ‘Brexit’ Will Affect the Global Economy, Now and Later – The New York Times
• Twitter
  haha/sigh
• Cartoons at Random

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• Travelers Could Gain Antibiotic Resistant Genes In Just Two Days | Popular Science
• Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present | Books | The Guardian
• Thorsten Heller on Twitter: "Building + training your 1. #TensorFlow graph from the ground up. https://t.co/0YH9I987w2 #MachineLearning #Google #DeepLearning #AI #Python"
• Princess Leia brainwaves may help you learn in your sleep | New Scientist
• Long visits to nature linked to improved mental health, study finds
• Climate Central on Twitter: "It’s been 13 months in a row of record heat https://t.co/CiSOu4q9Rm That’s never happened in 137 years of records https://t.co/yOOHyWlkUu"
• Boston Dynamics shows new quadruped robots, including one with a head / Boing Boing
• Why Do We Inherit Mitochondrial DNA Only From Our Mothers? – The New York Times
• Alzheimer’s closer to a Vaccine with new Slovakian Phase II Trial
• #prideforeveryone | Join the virtual Pride parade
  RT @sundarpichai: Everyone has a right to freedom & equality. Proud of Google’s support for the LGBTQ community #prideforeveryone 
• Go kit – A toolkit for microservices
• Unveiling the Hidden Layers of Deep Learning – Scientific American Blog Network
• Welcome to Wild For Life | Wild For Life
• Google’s Webpass Buy Points the Way to a Speedier Internet for Everyone | WIRED
• How the Computer Beat the Go Player – Scientific American
• Genetic Sequencing Gets Boost From A New Proofreading Enzyme | Popular Science
• Synthetic evolutionary origin of a proofreading reverse transcriptase | Science
• Jupyter Notebook Viewer

  DeepDreaming with TensorFlow

• Brexit: the morning after the night before… | Andrew Petersen | LinkedIn
• AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer – Andreessen Horowitz
• Twitter
  Yikes.

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• Alasdair Allan on Twitter: ""What happens next in the event of a vote to leave is [therefore] a matter of politics not law," https://t.co/dnr3jduiac"
• Can the United Kingdom government legally disregard a vote for Brexit? | David Allen Green
• Five legal points about the Leave victory – Jack of Kent blog
• Global Coral Bleaching Continues For a Record Third Year | Climate Central
  RT @ClimateCentral: Coral reefs are in for a unheard of third year of bleaching in every ocean basin
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateCentral: Coral reefs are in for a unheard of third year of bleaching in every ocean basin
• Twitter
  RT @BethanyRobison: America, this is our Ghost of Christmas Future giving us one last chance
• Docker Swarm on Google Cloud Platform — Google Cloud Platform — Community — Medium
  RT @SandeepDinesh: Hot from #DockerCon. Launch a 1.12 @DockerSwarm Cluster on @googlecloud in under 15 minutes!

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• Machine Learning Trends and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
• ScienceDaily on Twitter: "Birds Use Economic Principles With Tool Use https://t.co/M82UWluX8L https://t.co/S19Fua5C1c"
• NY Review of Books on Twitter: "Are we sleepwalking into nuclear war? A former US defense secretary says the danger is “growing greater every year” https://t.co/0CQcRN0EPF"
• Artificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem – Bloomberg
• Hints for computer system design
• The New Norm : Invisibilia : NPR
• Javascript developers, be warned about this crazy JIT bug in V8!
• My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation | Mother Jones
• Amazon Echo and Alexa really matter — Medium
• JetPens Black Gel Pen Sampler – JetPens.com
• Pilot Vanishing Point Decimo Fountain Pens – JetPens.com
• Everyday Carry – JetPens.com
• Everyday Carry – JetPens.com
• Why LaCroix sparkling water is suddenly everywhere – Vox
• Marc Cohen on Twitter: "I/O 2016 may be over, but the codelabs live on! https://t.co/AN3tQlm8ex https://t.co/4QRo6nN4Y5"
• Food is getting so expensive in India that it now wants to farm in Africa and Myanmar — Quartz
• On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
• How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company — Backchannel
• Putting a Spotlight on Diversity in Tech Burnout by The Editor | Model View Culture
• Fast Forward Labs on Twitter: "Our June newsletter is about what’s new in recommender systems. https://t.co/76oj4rHEea https://t.co/yvQMhtTD0E"
• Make work simple with new Dropbox productivity tools | | Dropbox Blog
• Google on Twitter: "Solar Impulse is attempting the first solar-powered transatlantic flight. See its journey → https://t.co/t6SYSzwR2o https://t.co/JgN2uhi22H"
• Storage for Photographers (Part 2) — PaulStamatiou.com
• 6 Black Women Who Are Leading Africa’s Digital Revolution
• Your Desire to Get Things Done Can Undermine Your Effectiveness
• Filling the BigQuery paddling pool from the Kinesis Hosepipe | Shine Technologies
• Research Blog: Bringing Precision to the AI Safety Discussion
• Chris Olah on Twitter: "I’m really excited to have co-authored this paper "Concrete Problems in AI Safety" — https://t.co/v5puocaFTv"
• [1606.06565] Concrete Problems in AI Safety

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• One Year as a Developer Advocate | Compound Theory
• left coast chocolate chip cookies | Well-Traveled Wife
• GitHub – ELLIOTTCABLE/pin-cushion: Simple, maintained CLI interface to the Pinboard.in API.
  A simple command-line Pinboard.in client:
• Click, done. — Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack Blog
• Twitter
  RT @petewarden: Read the whole thread. Very painful and a great example of why diversity matters in a very concrete way.
• Kubernetes Cluster Federation Sneak Peak – YouTube
• Twitter
  RT @theOFFICIALmilf: Tips on how to respond to panhandling.
• Twitter
  RT @igorvolsky: Every senator who voted AGAINST background checks & how much they got form @NRA (Heitkamp not pictured, got $0)
• It’s An Honor To Continue Being Valued Over Countless Human Lives
• Gabrielle Giffords: Orlando and Jo Cox’s death show the horrors of gun violence – The Washington Post

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• Machine Learning Yearning
  andrew ng
• Sam 北島-Kimbrel on Twitter: "Holy shit, that dissent gets even better. Read the whole thing, it’s short. Cites DuBois, Baldwin, and Coates. https://t.co/feeBT2Paiy"
• You Won’t Be Able to Sue The Next Gawker — Medium
• Hello, TensorFlow! – O’Reilly Media
• Being A Female Leader Is A Competitive Differentiator, Says This Tech Pioneer
• Pete Warden on Twitter: ""Hello TensorFlow" – https://t.co/38N3pw755s – A very helpful introduction to the basic workings of #TensorFlow by @planarrowspace"
• Increasing our Investment in Machine Learning | Twitter Blogs
• Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation – The New York Times

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