Entries from September 2016 ↓

• BigQuery: introducing powerful new enterprise data warehousing features | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
• Goodbye World: We’ve Passed the Carbon Tipping Point For Good | Motherboard
• Blackberry – Spindrift
• The Bibbs All Natural Sparkling Beverage product line
• GoTenna Mesh keeps people connected even when they’re miles apart and off-grid | TechCrunch
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
  RT @kubernetesio: The global phenomenon #PokemonGO runs on Google Container Engine, powered by #Kubernetes
• Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race – The New York Times

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• Google Cloud Machine Learning: now open to all with new professional services and education programs | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
• This Week GQ Published a Sexist Climbing Piece, and Outdoor Research Stepped in With The Perfect Response | The Dyrt
• Cuban crocodiles pose conservation conundrum : Nature News & Comment
• Offshore wind is finally — finally! — coming to the U.S. Here’s what you need to know. | Grist
• Split Over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair – NYTimes.com
• Infrastructure as the Backbone of African Growth – YouTube
• Das Keyboard Prime 13 Cherry MX Review | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @filler: Ah, finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
• Twitter
  RT @MaddowBlog: Exclusive! Sneak peek at @KurtEichenwald’s new Newsweek piece coming tomorrow.
  #Maddow
• Andrew Rader on Twitter: "Onekotan island (Kurils) from space – an island supporting a smaller island within its crater lake. https://t.co/ZjPYeD1ru1"
• Why Women in Tech Might Consider Just Using Their Initials Online – The Experts – WSJ
• Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms | Genome Biology | Full Text
• â–¶ Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E-flat Major II – Saint Saens by Francesc Campoy Flores
• Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight | New Scientist
• Wells Fargo to Claw Back $41 Million of Chief’s Pay Over Scandal – NYTimes.com
• Cucumber Cooler Recipe :: Minimalist Baker
• 10 simple, easy gin cocktails for summer parties
• Dawson County High School | Staff
• Twitter
  RT @theferocity: I keep re-reading this paragraph in which Gopnik connects birthers to stop and frisk to American life itself:

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• Why the mediocre male’s days may be numbered | Jessica Valenti | Opinion | The Guardian
• Untitled (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=487654380)
  RT @jjvincent: when asked in a poll, 4% of americans said they’d been decapitated
• Twitter
  RT @jjvincent: when asked in a poll, 4% of americans said they’d been decapitated
• Election, Tracy Flick, and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign
• Video – Bullet Journaling – JetPens.com
• Black Women Are Leaning In And Getting Nowhere | Huffington Post
• Fintech jobs increase by 1,400% in SA
• Salutin’ Putin: inside a Russian troll house | World news | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @NumbersMuncher: And that, my friends, is why the media created the Donald Trump monster as they now seek to deflect blame for their…
• Google’s Go language ventures into machine learning | InfoWorld
• Yale study suggests racial bias among preschool teachers – The Washington Post
  RT @kavbojka: "Yale study suggests racial bias among preschool teachers"
  More science to prove what black people already knew
• Twitter
  RT @PD_Smith: The city under the ice – Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
• Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project | World news | The Guardian
  RT @PD_Smith: The city under the ice – Greenland’s receding icecap to expose top-secret US nuclear project
• 30 Years of "Doonesbury" on Donald Trump: Cartoonist Garry Trudeau on the GOP’s "Natural Born Toon" | Democracy Now!
• In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue – The New York Times
• Trump’s a Businessman. Where’s His Business Backing? – The New York Times
• New York City accelerates emissions efforts in face of daunting sea level rise | US news | The Guardian
• The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently | Climate Central
• The Four Donald Trumps You Meet on Earth – The Atlantic
• Distributed consensus and the implications of NVM on database management systems | the morning paper
• Want to Be a Lot Happier? Science Says Do Any 1 of These 9 Things | Inc.com
• TensorFlow for Mobile Poets « Pete Warden’s blog
• Kubernetes 1.4: One DevOps tool to rule all the containers | ZDNet
• JR Reserve Blend® | Peet’s Coffee & Tea
• The Problem with Trump Isn’t His Debating Skills – The New Yorker
  RT @alexrossmusic: Sharp observation by @adamgopnik: "birtherism" is Trump’s attempt to stop and frisk President Obama
• How Hillary Clinton Became a Vessel for America’s Fury – Rolling Stone
• Palantir charged with discriminating against Asians
• Does Donald Trump Pay Taxes? Here’s What We Know – The New York Times
• New Debate Strategy for Donald Trump: Practice, Practice, Practice – NYTimes.com

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• YouTube Go Is an App Made for the Next Billion Users | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @ClaraJeffery: Groan. Only women are "over prepared." Men get to be "masterful" and "commanding."
• BOMBERS-WOMAN | ZARA United States
• Twitter
  @enneff a white rhino family, including a baby. There were hotlines for reporting poachers in the parks.
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: Just posting these together so future gender studies professors don’t have to go looking for separate tweets.
• Twitter
  RT @ShaunKing: Police in Danville, Virginia are putting the hoods of their cars up when they pull people over to block the dash ca…
• Donald Trump has some Latinos so unnerved, they’re turning to the supernatural for help – LA Times
• Elephant poachers are even deadlier than we knew – The Washington Post
• Kubernetes: Kubernetes 1.4: Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
• The cat man of Aleppo – BBC News
• Through the Looking Glass | bhikkhu cintita dinsmore, buddhist writings
• Amazon.com: Transcend 480GB JetDrive 720 SATAIII 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit for MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display, Late 2012 – Early 2013 (TS480GJDM720): Computers & Accessories
• Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press » Pressthink
  RT @paulkrugman: Dear journalists (and other people too): Read this now now now

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• The secret life of a startup employee: it’s like being a firefighter led by an arsonist | Anonymous | Opinion | The Guardian

  If you’re lucky, new ventures can be fun, and do great things. But most are rudderless, stuffed with clueless children – and founded by capricious narcissists

• Can Crispr-Cas9 Boost Intelligence? – Scientific American Blog Network
• GitHub – miekg/dns: DNS library in Go

  Alternative (more granular) approach to a DNS library

• The Glass Frog Doesn’t Care if You Can See Its Guts | WIRED
• Ziya🤘🏻 on Twitter: "In Tikrit, there’s a monument of the shoe that Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi hurled at George W Bush during a press conference. https://t.co/xftNSod8z0"
• France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels | World news | The Guardian
• Of course machine learning can help you sort cucumbers
• Aron Strandberg on Twitter: "The world’s most populous countries, 1950-2060. Watch #India overtake #China, and #Nigeria passing USA to become #3 https://t.co/ZqlBG7yYHj"
• Twitter
  RT @Jamie_Woodward_: 14,000 years ago this elegant reindeer was expertly carved into a small piece of Dordogne limestone. You can see it…
• Where Ice Once Crushed Ships, Open Water Beckons – The New York Times
• High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history | Books | The Guardian
• Google | Project Shield | Free DDoS protection
  Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.
• Twitter
  RT @DavidUberti: The Los Angeles Times calls out Trump’s "lies" on A1.
• Watch Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Star Trek Memories’ | Mental Floss
• Why voters pick Bugs Bunny over Daffy Duck.
• Am I Introverted, or Just Rude? – NYTimes.com
• Vala Afshar on Twitter: "Hydraulic Press vs. Sticky Notes https://t.co/rgCkyE0Z5Z"
• Rating Chili Peppers On A Scale Of 1 To Oh Dear God I’m On Fire | FiveThirtyEight
• Vala Afshar on Twitter: "Filming a burger commercial with a robotic arm 🍔 (realtime process is 1 second long) —@machinepix https://t.co/y1JLfRwPwf"
• Twitter
  RT @TheRoot: Tommie Smith and John Carlos will join the U.S. Olympic team for a visit to the White House:
• Tommie Smith and John Carlos to Join U.S. Olympic team at the White House
  RT @TheRoot: Tommie Smith and John Carlos will join the U.S. Olympic team for a visit to the White House:
• What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet — Quartz
• David Aronchick on Twitter: "Whoa – price of NEW solar is now CHEAPER than the cost of fuel burned in a nat gas plant to make electricity. https://t.co/GHicJURzvR"
• New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected | Ramez Naam
• Zach Heltzel on Twitter: "I would say I hope I look like Bruce Springsteen when I’m 67 but I don’t even come close to looking like him now. https://t.co/6sttrSMqBQ"
• Jollof Rice (Ghana Style) | My African Food Map
• Twitter
  RT @chriswithpants: How to fill out security questions.
• Am I Introverted, or Just Rude? – The New York Times
• Slave tourism: African-Americans travel to Ghana to see an ugly past — Latitude News

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• Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on the box – Cycling Weekly
• Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in October – The Verge
• Show And Tell: Google Open Sources Its Image Captioning AI In TensorFlow
• iOS 10 Update Problem Fails, Requires iTunes to Fix Bricked iPhone & iPad | OSXDaily
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateCentral: This is what Glacier National Park looks like in the dying days of ice
• National Parks | Climate Central Special Report
  RT @ClimateCentral: This is what Glacier National Park looks like in the dying days of ice
• 36 Hours in Edinburgh – The New York Times
• MacBook Pro 2016 Ready For An October Launch; With Skylake, OLED, Apple Pencil, Touch ID But No To Headphone Jack : News : Parent Herald
• GitHub – wolffg/tf-tutorial: Short tutorial for TensorFlow, designed to be presented in-person

  Short tutorial for TensorFlow, designed to be presented in-person

  Wolff Dobson

• My Vote – The New Yorker
• The Story of AllMusic, the Internet’s Largest, Most Influential Music Database | Motherboard
• Jailed When Her Boyfriend Killed Her Son, She Is At Last Free – BuzzFeed News
  RT @KateNocera: Good journalism is important. @alexcampbell brought light to this outrageous injustice and this is the result.
• After Reporting Abuse, Many Twitter Users Hear Silence Or Worse – BuzzFeed News
• Are tougher rules needed to save the elephant? – Al Jazeera English
• Machine learning with Google machine learning APIs – Puppy or Muffin?
• Bret McGowen on Twitter: "Is it a puppy? A muffin? A sheepdog? A mop? Check out my deck on @googlecloud #MachineLearning APIs from #DevFestDC https://t.co/j8jop1fTwX https://t.co/Tn5RGGLh8F"
• How to Build Life-Changing Habits Through Tiny Changes
• Twitter
  RT @pourmecoffee: I think the Telegraph weekend headline writer is having relationship problems.
• How Nurses and Cheap Morphine Made Uganda a Model for Palliative Care – Women & Girls Hub
• Time-lapse animation of the night sky using an amazingly sensitive camera.
• 5 Common Hot Tub Issues and Solutions
• Hot tub tripping breaker | ehottubsandpools
• Pando: Reid Hoffman’s stand against Trump exposes the cowardice and hypocrisy of other tech moguls
• Untitled (https://pando.com/2016/09/21/reid-hoffmans-stand-against-trump-highlights-cowardice-and-hypocrisy-other-tech-moguls/314ca8195bde107b0562a57f7bb2abcc65fc08e7/)
  RT @dangillmor: "Reid Hoffman’s stand against Trump exposes the cowardice and hypocrisy of other tech moguls"

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• Karl Dietrich Bracher, German Historian of Nazi Era, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com
• An Eater’s Guide to Seattle – Eater Seattle
• Daily chart: The rise of drug resistance | The Economist
• (500) https://humanutility.github.io/larry-detroit
  RT @tiffani: Sign up for The @HumanUtility’s monthly giving program and you will help people like Larry all year ’round!
• Bruce Springsteen on Trump: ‘The republic is under siege by a moron, basically’ – POLITICO
• So, What Can I Do?
• Ch 10: Recurrent/Recursive Nets – YouTube
• Ch 10: Recurrent/Recursive Nets – YouTube
• Feeding the Beast: Black Labor, Public Executions, and the Criminal Justice Economy – Medium
• Kaggle on Twitter: "Learn TensorFlow from scratch through this great lab-style tutorial including our Leaf Classification challenge https://t.co/6HwR1HrxKp"
• Brad Fitzpatrick on Twitter: "@kelseyhightower did you ever see my https://t.co/6NyCptJSJC ? Same thing for VMs I guess?"
• spanner-osdi2012.pdf
  Spanner paper
• Research Blog: Show and Tell: image captioning open sourced in TensorFlow
• Twitter
  RT @marginoferror: Every study finds this! It was never even in doubt!

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• Emails From A CEO Who’s Making The Presentation Himself This Time – Slackjaw – Medium
• GitHub – kubernetes-incubator/ocid: Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
  ocid – OCI-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
• Immigration Does More Good Than Harm to Economy, Study Finds – WSJ
• Using BigQuery to Analyze PHP on GitHub | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
• Google open sources image captioning model in TensorFlow | TechCrunch
• models/im2txt at master · tensorflow/models · GitHub

  A TensorFlow implementation of the image-to-text model described in the paper:

  “Show and Tell: Lessons learned from the 2015 MSCOCO Image Captioning Challenge.”

  Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, Dumitru Erhan.

  IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence (2016).

  Full text available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06647

• 9 New Books We Recommend This Week – The New York Times
• Mr. Trump’s Stupid Excuses on Taxes – The New York Times
• Ig Nobel win for Alpine ‘goat man’ – BBC News
• Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem | WIRED
• Paul Bloom on Twitter: "Apparently, reading literary fiction doesn’t actually improve your theory of mind. https://t.co/1u7lGXiIox"
• Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication.

  Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication.

• Michiko Kakutani on Twitter: "Night kayaking. Quebec, Canada. via @NatGeoPhotos https://t.co/e5anXe8y8P"
• 10 Giant Translated Novels that Make a Mockery of “Subway Reading” | Literary Hub
• Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic
• Google Cloud Platform Product Management Director Greg DeMichillie heads back to Adobe | 9to5Google
• How to build a robot that “sees” with $100 and TensorFlow – O’Reilly Media
• GitHub – GoogleCloudPlatform/training-data-analyst: Labs and demos for courses in the Data Analyst track of GCP Training (http://cloud.google.com/training).
  Labs and demos for courses in the Data Analyst track of GCP Training
• training-data-analyst/ghcn_on_bq.ipynb at blog_20160825 · GoogleCloudPlatform/training-data-analyst · GitHub
  Datalab notebook to accompany blogpost on GHCN data.
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Global Historical Daily Weather Data now available in BigQuery
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Using BigQuery and Firebase Analytics to understand your mobile app
• Five Reasons I Ditched my Giant DSLR for a Compact Mirrorless Camera – SmugMug News
  Fuji X-T10

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• Hillary Clinton: My Plan for Helping America’s Poor – The New York Times
• Yet another analysis of Github data with Google BigQuery – Medium
• Dark Sky’s Pretty Weather App Is Now a Pretty Weather Site | WIRED
  https://darksky.net/
• Announcing the dA Platform, our distribution of Apache® Flink® – data Artisans
• Kubernetes: High performance network policies in Kubernetes clusters
• Experience Google’s machine learning on your own images, voice and text | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
• Cats crossed continents to be close to us, says gene study – The Verge
• Fertility Research: Experimental Editing Of Human Embryos’ DNA Moves Ahead : Shots – Health News : NPR
• crispr : NPR
• Steve Fuller on how Silicon Valley gets the future wrong: "To have strong innovation, you need a strong state" — Quartz
• The Sunlight Foundation and a Crisis in Open Government – The Atlantic
• Back in black: iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus mega review
• Twitter
  RT @ajplus: This Oakland school band kneeled down while playing the national anthem to protest police brutality.

  A salute to C…

• Twitter
  haha (at least the title is not ‘The Karamazov Bros’)
• Moon Speck Captured in Stunning View of Saturn’s Rings
• Bill Thies — MacArthur Foundation
• Subhash Khot — MacArthur Foundation
• Class of 2016 – MacArthur Foundation
• Thai Combination Fried Rice Recipe – NYT Cooking
• The Sex Life of a ’70s ‘It’ Girl — The Cut
• Modern Technology Unlocks Secrets of a Damaged Biblical Scroll – The New York Times
• Brangelina Is Dead; Long Live Angelina – BuzzFeed News
• Leonard Cohen’s New Biblical Dirge Is Among His Best Songs Ever – The Daily Beast
• African American history museum tour, exhibit map – Washington Post
• The Ultimate Sports Bra – Shefit
• Thorsten Heller on Twitter: "#Amazon goes #opensource with #machinelearning tech #DSSTNE, competing with #Google’s #TensorFlow https://t.co/WowAC4phbv #AI #bigdata"
• Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds | New Scientist
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: Immune Engineering
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016: DNA App Store

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• macOS Sierra is now available to download | TechCrunch
• Twitter
  RT @goddamnedfrank: CNN is now normalizing fascism, openly questioning the rule of law and the civil rights protections enshrined in th…
• How to implement your first password-less login system
• Monzo – Building a Modern Bank Backend
• Surfing on a turtle’s tail makes swinging crabs monogamous | New Scientist
• The Free-Time Paradox in America – The Atlantic
• Kelsey Hightower on Twitter: "Prometheus makes it super easy to monitor Kubernetes and build tools around custom metrics. https://t.co/T5LDDsVoWe https://t.co/doW1ogfZD1"
• Prometheus and Kubernetes up and running
• thockin on Twitter: "I’ve meant to write this for a while. An illustrated guide to #Kubernetes networking. It’s not as pretty as I hoped. https://t.co/FLCIMB3Ai9"
• Prometheus and Kubernetes – Google Slides
• Adam MacBeth on Twitter: "🤔 "Basically, you’ll get (two times) your investment for a top line team and an engineering team in Seattle than you can in the Bay Area" https://t.co/s0fbBCtJPX"
• Tab Snooze
• PRINTER PHONE: 📠 on Twitter: "@pomeranian99 you might also be into tabsnooze: https://t.co/S0B2kpyuCt"
• Oren Etzioni on Twitter: "If you ask the people who really know, you’ll find that few believe AI is a threat to humanity. https://t.co/IIwsZmLC9u"
• tabsleeper – lightweight tab management by glsignal and heisenburger
• Clive Thompson on Twitter: "Very cool browser extension: https://t.co/k7UddND26A — turns all your open tabs into a list. (via @SuePGardner)"
• Google’s New Vacation App Was 280 Years in the Making | WIRED
• Ξrik Brynjolfsson on Twitter: ".@etzioni did a survey of 80 fellows of the AAAI about when we’d see "Superintelligence. #AI https://t.co/7qaQ8CnZ29 https://t.co/aiGdOHEDgZ"
• 24 Dishes That Taste Better on the Second (or Third) Day – Recipes from NYT Cooking
• How to live well | The Economist
• Prometheus – Monitoring system & time series database

  Power your metrics and alerting with a leading
  open-source monitoring solution.

• Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems – The Washington Post

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