Entries from October 2016 ↓

• Twitter
  RT @GlennF: The vast majority of what most people believe they know about her is false.
• The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist – The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateReality: New data from @NASA shows that yet again, the planet had a record-warm month
• Untitled (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/september-exclamation-point-string-hot-months?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=CLPledge)
  RT @ClimateReality: New data from @NASA shows that yet again, the planet had a record-warm month
• How the ‘Big Sort’ Is Driving Political Polarization – CityLab

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• Twitter
  RT @Khanoisseur: Wow this is literally how fascism takes root
• Roxane Gay Lists 13 Rules for Female Friendships | Women’s eNews
• What’s Interesting? | Linda Stone

  A young woman was quite burned out after many years in a job to which she had given her heart and soul. A colleague described the work as, “Throwing toothpicks at dragons.”

  I began to mentor her as she stepped into her transition out of the job and into, she knew not what. She could hardly imagine what she wanted to do next.

  I gave her an assignment:

  Every day, text me about something you notice or learn that is interesting to you. Write as much as you like.

• Finding our Twitter voice
  Slack
• A First Class Journey From London To Sydney On British Airways & Qantas In 1958… — God Save the Points
• Time Lapse: Thousands of Books Get Reshelved Before the Rose Main Reading Room Reopens – YouTube
• Twitter
  RT @stuartpstevens: This didn’t happen before Trump. Not in public.
• Surreal photos of crashing waves caught in motion on Lake Erie – The Washington Post
• Russia’s October Surprise | Foreign Affairs
• James Salter’s Last Book – The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @CoralReefFish: For #SeaSlugDay I will repost this photo of a shrimp riding a sea slug by Yury Ivanov!
• Bonnie Raitt "I Can’t Make You Love Me" Oral History – Stereogum
• Google: Our Assistant Will Trigger the Next Era of AI
• Hillary Clinton might not win — Quartz
  RT @michikokakutani: British polling experts who didn’t see Brexit coming on why the US should be prepared for a similar upset. via @qz
• Twitter
  RT @BritishMedieval: Spare a thought for volunteers working tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone…
• Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop Keyboard & Mouse | Microsoft Accessories
• Game 4 Pitching Match Up Drill Down – baseballongcp – Medium
  RT @notthateric: Harry Doyle speaks: Game 4 Pitching Match Up Drill Down @googecloud #pressure #worldseries
• Shop protective base case for iPhone 7 Plus – Free Shipping | mophie
• Zadie Smith: dance lessons for writers | Books | The Guardian
• Untitled (http://www.techbetter.com/walmart-will-manage-200-distribution-centers-oneops-jenkins-nexus-kubernetes/)
  RT @kubernetesio: #OpenSource for the win! How Walmart uses #Kubernetes to help manage their incredible distribution centers
• New Discovery: Bizaare Millipede Has 414 Legs, 4 Poisonous Penises : News : Nature World News
• Auto-Graphique Eyeliner – surratt beauty | Sephora
• Why Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Beauty Campaign Matters
• Confusion Over Voter ID Spreads As Early Voting Continues – Houston Public Media
  RT @Taniel: Complaints piling up about Texas poll workers giving misleading information to voters.
• Twitter
  RT @Taniel: Complaints piling up about Texas poll workers giving misleading information to voters.
• Academia, Love Me Back – TIFFANY MARTÍNEZ

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• Cruise and Hanks: from golden boys to wasted talents | Film | The Guardian
• Duck Island Ale House
• Yelp: Seattle’s best bars by neighborhood – seattlepi.com
• Pressure for Cody Allen — Nothing New – baseballongcp – Medium
• Secret Management with Vault – ChairNerd
• CRISPR Identifies Potential Gene Targets to Hobble HIV Infection – Scientific American
• Re-evaluating the link between neuropsychiatric disorders and dysregulated adult neurogenesis : Nature Medicine : Nature Research
• I Don’t Know What to Do With Good White People
• GitHub – chain/chain: Chain Core Developer Edition
  Blockchain
• Next Job for Obama? Silicon Valley Is Hiring – NYTimes.com
• Eagles Nest Outfitters Inc. DoubleNest Hammock
• Andrew O’Hagan reviews ‘Powerhouse’ by James Andrew Miller · LRB 6 October 2016
• Twitter
  RT @eveewing: Hamlet is about a rich, Danish prince whose father is a ghost. But here’s why it relates to everyone.
• You are less anonymous on the web than you think — much less. | School of Engineering
• Twitter
  RT @ClerkofOxford: The Old English word for library, ‘boc-hord’ (‘book-hoard’), in a Latin-English glossary (BL Harley 3376, f.5)…
• How the government lost its case against the Oregon occupiers – LA Times
• Twitter
  RT @KarenStaughton: Just walked past a slug with a cigarette in its mouth in Walthamstow.
• jwz: They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo
• Tesla bans customers from using self-driving tech to work for Uber, Lyft – Business Insider
• Watch alan’s Vine "#toto #africa #dancingdog #robot"
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: What’s new with Google Cloud Resource Manager, and other IAM news
• Tino Tereshko on Twitter: "Go read this paper now – how Sungard FIS built their trade data framework with Google Bigtable, Dataflow,& BigQuery https://t.co/EFPMvpOxuu"
• Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on the Future of Communication – WSJ
• GitHub – kelseyhightower/vault-controller: Automate the creation of unique Vault tokens for Kubernetes Pods using init containers.
• Whitehead Institute – News – 2016 – Susan Lindquist, accomplished and beloved scientist, has died at age 67
• Twitter
  RT @MsEntropy: "This is our land" is an excuse that only works for one of these groups.

  Two guesses. First one doesn’t count.…

• AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element AI, a Deep-Learning Incubator | WIRED
• A 6-year-old girl and a male fetus were killed in a car crash. The compensation for the fetus was much higher. – Washington Post
• Tim Harford — Article — There’s magic in mess: Why you should embrace a disorderly desk

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• TensorFlow Workshop Seattle | Home
  josh’s workshop
• Neural Networks and Image Compression
  Because neural networks can accept a vast array of input at once, and process it quickly, they are useful in image compression.
• Finding A Way Home Through ‘The Door Of No Return’ : Code Switch : NPR
• Twitter
  RT @andychilton: These three tweets are my current, and my future, in tech – I can feel it. For me at least, @kelseyhightower is rig…
• Twitter
  RT @MaxCRoser: The shared origin of ‘beef’, ‘cow’ and ‘butter’.
  (source: )
• (500) https://de.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/59pj4r/the_shared_origin_of_beef_cow_and_butter_oc/
  RT @MaxCRoser: The shared origin of ‘beef’, ‘cow’ and ‘butter’.
  (source: )
• Twitter
  RT @saladinahmed: meanwhile…
• AI predicts outcome of human rights cases – BBC News
• Create a BigQuery table with Ruby – YouTube
  RT @the_thagomizer: Got a Minute? Learn how to create BigQuery tables with Ruby.
  #CloudMinute
• Twitter
  RT @arctictony: When you forget to send in your bio and the conference just prints what you put on LinkedIn when bored
• The Best Bluetooth On- or Over-Ear Headphones | The Wirecutter
• Twitter
  RT @vicnastea: Looking to run @spinnakerio on @googlecloud? Get yourself educated!
• Running Spinnaker on Compute Engine  |  Solutions
   |  Google Cloud Platform
  RT @vicnastea: Looking to run @spinnakerio on @googlecloud? Get yourself educated!
• History isn’t a ‘useless’ major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of – LA Times
• That’s It For Bauer — Could Have Been Much Worse – baseballongcp – Medium
  RT @notthateric: Game 2 – Harry Doyle Speaks — “That’s It For Bauer — Could Have Been Much Worse”

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• Unifying Stream Processing and Interactive Queries in Apache Kafka
• Despite Business Mess, Twitter Is At Its Most Vital – BuzzFeed News
• Domestic violence emerges as primary driver of homelessness in New York City | Crain’s New York Business
  RT @RosaGoldensohn: Domestic violence surpassed eviction this year to become #1 driver of homelessness in NYC
• Wildlife numbers more than halve since 1970s in mass extinction | New Scientist
  RT @somebadideas: Massive new survey: we’re on the way to wiping out 67% of wildlife species by the year 2020.
• World wildlife ‘falls by 58% in 40 years’ – BBC News
  RT @davidcoethica: Two-thirds of animals ‘to vanish by 2020′ -
• TensorFlow for mobile poets – O’Reilly Media
• Magenta
• Research Blog: Supercharging Style Transfer
• Twitter
  RT @MachinePix: Legendary pilot Bob Hoover pours a glass of iced tea while barrel rolling an airplane.
• Patient Zero in HIV crisis was misidentified, study says
  RT @Max_Fisher: Amazing: Our history of how HIV reached the US has been wrong for 20 years because of a typo
• Twitter
  RT @Max_Fisher: Amazing: Our history of how HIV reached the US has been wrong for 20 years because of a typo
• Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories : Nature News & Comment
• The Evolution of Massive Scale Data Processing: Strata + Hadoop World NYC 2016 – YouTube
  Tyler
• World Series 2016: How Google’s Data Team Is Providing Analysis
  RT @thetinot: How @googlecloud (and @cloude) is pitching analytics, machine learning, and big data to baseball fans via @gigabarb
• Twitter
  RT @DanielKrook: Not sure I like this green. How about a nice cornflower blue?
• Twitter
  RT @ShannonSpeaking: This is the serif vs sans serif #WorldSeries

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• White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many workers | Reuters
• Women in Iceland protest country’s 14 percent pay gap by leaving work 14 percent early – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW
• Graceful shutdown with Node.js and Kubernetes | @RisingStack
• Statement by Former Vice President Al Gore in Support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe — Al Gore
• [1606.04474] Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent
• Protecting the “Bro-Club”: Sacrificing Women, Keeping the Bullies at Tech Companies by Anonymous Author | Model View Culture
• [1609.02907] Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks
• Stat.ML Papers on Twitter: "Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks. (arXiv:1609.02907v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED) https://t.co/YAu3RbNPDK"
• Women in computing to decline to 22% by 2025, study warns
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Treat Google Cloud Storage like a file system with our new PowerShell provider
• Google Jamboard Is a Huge 4K Screen You Can Scribble On | WIRED
• Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America – NYTimes.com
• Google’s self-driving car design boss speaks on her strategy | The Verge
• Do Elephants Have Souls? – The New Atlantis
• Twitter
  so true
• The 2nd and 3rd presidential debates through tweets – Medium
  RT @SRobTweets: I used @googlecloud to find the the top 10 emojis this election season
  😂
  👏
  🙄
  👍
  😭
  🔥
  💩
  😡
  👇
  💀
• Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team. – All Things Distributed

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• Google Cloudbuilding with Joe Beda | Software Engineering Daily
• The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter for more than $30 million – Recode
• Twitter
  RT @JulianCastro: Fellow Texas Democrats–

  Texas is now a battleground ("toss up") state.

  Begin to believe. And get out to vote!

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• The Meta-Politics of “Westworld” – The New Yorker
• The World’s Poorest Most at Risk From Drought, Conflict | Climate Central
• Strength In Numbers – Blue Men of The Sahara (Live on ACL 1990) – YouTube
• CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: Who won final presidential debate, Clinton or Trump? – CBS News
  RT @DaviSusan: Staggering data point in new CBS poll: 72% of Florida Rs believe Trump would win in November were it not for fraud.
• Tech Diversity Problems: Kara Swisher at Harvard Tech 22 | DC Inno
• The Cure For Being A Woman – YouTube
• Paul Kirby on Twitter: "This is brilliant. Watch Trump debate illegal Mexican immigration with Reagan & George HW Bush. HT @AdamParkhomenko https://t.co/QwAfdbBPt1"
• Classical superstar Ludovico Einaudi: I’m inspired by Eminem | Music | The Guardian
• tensorflow/example.proto at r0.11 · tensorflow/tensorflow
  // An Example is a mostly-normalized data format for storing data for
  // training and inference. It contains a key-value store (features); where
  // each key (string) maps to a Feature message (which is oneof packed BytesList,
  // FloatList, or Int64List). This flexible and compact format allows the
  // storage of large amounts of typed data, but requires that the data shape
  // and use be determined by the configuration files and parsers that are used to
  // read and write this format. That is, the Example is mostly *not* a
  // self-describing format.
• Automatically Run Unit Tests With entr
• Install entr on Mac OSX – Mac App Store
  Install entr on Mac OSX
• entr(1)
  Run arbitrary commands when files change

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• Counter-terrorism arrest over North Greenwich Tube device – BBC News
• Detectives ‘believe lone wolf terrorist left crude bomb on Tube heading for Westminster | Daily Mail Online
• Robert Sapolsky: Sushi and Middle Age on Livestream
• Using machine-learning to auto-gen scary faces and hauntify buildings / Boing Boing
• Thriving – Not Just Surviving – with Chronic Pain
• Rise of the Reactionary – The New Yorker
• Best iPhone 7 Plus cases — so far! | iMore

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• Is += really worse than ”.join([ ... ]) for Python strings? · GitHub
• 4,000 year old children’s rattle beautifully crafted as bear cub’s head: and it still rattles!
• Tapping in to something new: Christopher Guest on why he values spontaneity over script | The Economist
• 15 Awesome things you probably didn’t know about Google BigQuery – Medium
• Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage — Krebs on Security
• Presidential Debate: What You Missed – NYTimes.com
• Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today’s Massive Internet Outage — Krebs on Security
• Khal Droghost on Twitter: "In a few years there’ll be enough computers in your home that getting hacked and being haunted will be functionally indistinguishable."
• Wind, solar almost half the cost of new coal generators in South Africa : Renew Economy
• Twitter
  RT @billmckibben: Less sea ice in the Arctic than ever measured on this date, if that’s the kind of thing that interests you.
• mirai at DuckDuckGo
• 15 Awesome things you probably didn’t know about Google BigQuery – Medium
• Hands on with Google Cloud Platform, TensorFlow & BigQuery — early thoughts – Medium
• GitHub – cbednarski/hostess: An idempotent command-line utility for managing your /etc/hosts file.
• Bob Collymore, Safaricom CEO, warns M-Pesa is a "clumsy" product that needs to diversify or risk dying — Quartz
• How Rats Got From Mongolia To New York City Subway Tunnels | Popular Science
• Tomato Soup Recipe – NYT Cooking
• Restore Hetch Hetchy on Twitter: "Someday all Americans will enjoy #HetchHetchy. Learn about our plan to #RestoreHetchHetchy: https://t.co/K81YYb2swy. https://t.co/peBafu5YBo"
• David Letterman (and His Beard) Shop at Target These Days – NYTimes.com
• Twitter
  RT @LizMartinezG: the fuck?
• Grace Hopper organizers struggle to practice the diversity they advocate | TechCrunch
• Greenland Is Melting – The New Yorker
  RT @nxthompson: The ice sheets of Greenland have started melting so fast that, at first, scientists didn’t believe the data.
• Level3 outage? Current problems and outages | Down Detector
• Twitter
  RT @dearsarah: If Thiel had disavowed his book, I’d have believed him. That he hasn’t-or had to-speaks volumes about inclusion.
• Plastic Is the Ocean’s New Junk Food – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
  RT @scicurious: yeesh. "By 2050, it’s likely that plastic in the oceans will outweigh all the oceans’ fish"
• ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? – The New York Times
• The Kremlin Eats GPS for Breakfast
• Christopher Mims on Twitter: "Buried lede: The actively managed funds that are killing it are run by quants. Algorithms defeat humans, again. https://t.co/kquqOA4w4L"
• ‘Nice Internet You’ve Got There… You Wouldn’t Want Something To Happen To It…’ | Techdirt
  RT @techdirt: ‘Nice Internet You’ve Got There… You Wouldn’t Want Something To Happen To It…’

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