Entries from April 2017 ↓
April 30th, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @vambenepe: Great article about how the New York Times Embraces New Technology, including Google Cloud & specifically BigQuery.…
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RT @brendankoerner: Been thinking about this old comic a lot.
- The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame – The New York Times
- Today’s Energy Jobs Are in Solar, Not Coal – The New York Times
- EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades – The Washington Post
EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades
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RT @ClimateCentral: Antarctic surface melt is more widespread than scientists thought
- Antarctic Surface Melt More Widespread Than Thought | Climate Central
RT @ClimateCentral: Antarctic surface melt is more widespread than scientists thought
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Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt
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RT @DavidJSuggett: Seychelles expedition 2017 was gut wrenching, >50% of corals wiped out from 2016 mass bleaching @djsmitc…
- Babe Paley: Muses, It Women | The Red List
- EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two decades – The Washington Post
- No Bones About It: Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt – NYTimes.com
Scientists Recover Ancient DNA From Cave Dirt
- Carrie Fisher and John Belushi on the set of THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980). – Album on Imgur
- Here are More than 400 Officials Trump has Quietly Deployed Across the Government | ProPublica
Happy #FOIAFriday! We just updated our Trump #beachhead db with 28 new names across 4 agencies. Now up to 491 names: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead https://twitter.com/A_L/status/857986724324155393/photo/1
- Thames garden bridge scrapped by Sadiq Khan | UK news | The Guardian
- President Trump: In my first 100 days, I kept my promise to Americans – The Washington Post
- Obama had a chance to really fight climate change. He blew it. – Vox
- Happy 100 Day Trumpiversary, Everyone. Here Are His First 100 Days in 100 Seconds. | Mother Jones
- Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement | The Nation
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RT @memotv: I trained a #GAN on art collections of 150 museums around the world, now this is what it thinks of me (full vid:…
- I trained a #GAN on the art collections of 150 museums around the world, and now this is what it thinks of me on Vimeo
- Jordan Eschler on Twitter: "@SaraJBenincasa Elliott Bay Books in Seattle Third Place Books in Seattle (bonus: bar in basement)"
- ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’s Voice-over Works So Well
- The Radical Feminist Aesthetic Of "The Handmaid’s Tale"
- Michiko Kakutani on Twitter: "Fm PBS: well-known Propaganda Techniques. Inc. name-calling, "of the people" rhetoric, playing on fears, "bad logic" https://t.co/cELxoyTGMN"
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RT @JJohnsonLaw: You’ve normalized him so much, @ABC, you think the story is Warren might be his opponent, not that he used a racial…
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RT @planetepics: Mushrooms blooming in the tree bark
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RT @DrRubidium: Perhaps the most worrying sign in the #Ikea display area
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RT @iammoshow: Hold on one second.. I gotta give my cat a bath again
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April 29th, 2017 — pinboard
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April 28th, 2017 — pinboard
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April 27th, 2017 — pinboard
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soooo cool- NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
- Gerrymandering Has a Solution After All—It’s Called Math | WIRED
- How to Build a Recurrent Neural Network in TensorFlow
- Protective ‘ProBack Cover’ iPad Pro case can carry and charge Apple Pencil | 9to5Mac
- Google engineer shows the spectacular extremes of nighttime mobile photography – The Verge
- Cassini: Mission to Saturn: NASA Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings
- All right, “color-blind” colleagues, we need to have a talk | Nonprofit With Balls
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RT @ASlavitt: NEW: AARP comes out hard against new Trumpcare bill. Read the last highlighted line.
- Untitled (http://action.aarp.org/site/DocServer/4.26.17_House_Letter_on_AHCA_Final.pdf)
RT @ASlavitt: NEW: AARP comes out hard against new Trumpcare bill. Read the last highlighted line.
- Michael Skolnik Taps His Social Network to Fight for Civil Rights – The New York Times
- Untitled (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/infrastructure-engineering-at-scale-tickets-33915286535)
RT @deesix: Super cool event by @quizlet, @imgur teams to talk about cloud at scale (including Cloud Spanner).
- Losing: A Memory of the Richest Kid at Boarding School
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RT @sokane1: Holy shit — under Trump, the Bureau of Land Management’s Flickr page is now just sharing photos of oil and coal
- Heineken | Worlds Apart | #OpenYourWorld – YouTube
- Diversity at Slack – Several People Are Typing — The Official Slack Blog
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RT @qmacro: Using @jmdobry ‘s Google Cloud Functions Emulator so much I’ve added a status indicator to my tmux bar 🙂
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RT @DynamicWebPaige: Please, please read this article.
"Why Poverty is Like a Disease", via @NautilusMag :
- The Grim Biology of Being Poor
- Pivotal Cloud-Native Roadshow | Pivotal
RT @caseywest: Join @cws322 and me to go cloud-native with @pivotal and @googlecloud:
Fri: Atlanta
Mon: DC
Wed: Charlotte
Register:
- Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities | WIRED
- Google Open Source Blog: Saddle up and meet us in Texas for OSCON 2017
Google Open Source is headed to #OSCON where we’ll be talking about TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Go, gRPC, etc. Details:
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April 26th, 2017 — pinboard
- Brown Fountain Pen Ink Comparison – JetPens.com
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/us/milwaukee-inmate-died-after-being-deprived-of-water-for-7-days.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1)
RT @nytimes: Milwaukee inmate died after being deprived of water for 7 days
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‘performative wokeness’— this characterizes so much of the tech industry
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RT @BCAppelbaum: Just so we’re all clear, this is the Trump administration announcing a tax hike:
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RT @pjf: I finally understand why so many of my friends in #InfoSec have hedgehogs.
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RT @steve_vladeck: I’m late to this, but it’s completely insane that the WH Press Office is apparently lying to the media for sport:…
- Flynn probably broke the law by failing to disclose foreign payments, House Oversight leaders say – The Washington Post
Flynn probably broke the law by failing to disclose foreign payments, House Oversight leaders say
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RT @BraddJaffy: Left: Prime Minister’s office readout of Trudeau’s phone call with Trump
Right: White House readout of the very sa…
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RT @PFTompkins: Is there anything even 3/5 as bad?
- This Is What Makes My Head Spin. – PoliticsMeansPolitics.com
- WIRED Next List 2017: 20 Tech Visionaries Who Are Creating the Future of Business | WIRED
- Milwaukee Inmate Died After Being Deprived of Water for 7 Days – The New York Times
- The tale of the dictator’s daughter and her prince
RT @KarenAttiah: On Ivanka — "Adult children of authoritarians are useful in three ways." via @sarahkendzior
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RT @kept_simple: history doesn’t have to be so depressing
- Geography Revision on Twitter: "Aral Sea. Environmental catastrophe. Development > environment. ☹️4th largest, irrigation, cotton, white gold, salinisation, Amu Dary’a https://t.co/973JpTNns9"
- There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah | World news | The Guardian
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RT @erjohnso: Yes!
✅ RFC6455 (and no client side configuration necessary)
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- People | West Big Data Innovation Hub
- West Big Data Innovation Hub | Accelerating big data innovation through public-private partnerships #BDHubs #civictech #datascience
- 882: Significant – explain xkcd
- “Mindless Eating,” or how to send an entire life of research into question | Ars Technica
- Working with Github repository files using Google Apps Script: Examples in getting, writing and committing content – MASHe
- PyData Seattle 2017 Tickets, Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:00 AM | Eventbrite
- Pandoc – Installing pandoc
- Markdown Service Tools – BrettTerpstra.com
- Artificial womb helps premature lamb fetuses grow for 4 weeks | New Scientist
- Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress, racism – San Francisco Chronicle
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: Going multi-cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda
By Sowmya Kannan, Technical Curriculum Developer, Google Cloud Platform
A multi-cloud strategy can help organizations leverage strengths of different cloud providers and spread critical workloads. For example, maybe you have an existing application on AWS but want to use Google’s powerful APIs for Vision, Cloud Video Intelligence and Data Loss Prevention, or its big data and machine learning capabilities to analyze and derive insights from your data.
One pattern (among many) to integrate workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is to use Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda. The pattern has the following architecture.
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April 24th, 2017 — pinboard
- Google Cloud Boss Diane Greene Wants To Be Ahead Of Amazon By 2022
In a wide-ranging conversation touching upon security, artificial intelligence and open source technology, Google’s top cloud boss reasserted her confidence that Google can catch Amazon as the cloud leader.
"I think we have a pretty good shot at being #1 in five years," senior vice president Diane Greene said. "I actually think we have a huge advantage in our data centers, in our infrastructure, availability, security and how we automate things. We just haven’t packaged it up perfectly yet."
- Hunter Valley woman Wendy Bowman, 83, awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
- PsyArXiv Preprints | The role of the structural connectome in literacy and numeracy development in children
- Transplanted gut microbes may protect babies from infection | Cosmos
- The ice stupas of Ladakh: solving water crisis in the high desert of Himalaya | Environment | The Guardian
- Charcoal latte, beetroot latte, lavender latte and five other latte trends
- Learning These 9 Tough Skills Will Immediately Improve Your Entire Life
- Start Up: the sadness of Facebook, why US retail is collapsing, ignoring robots.txt, and more | The Overspill: when there’s more that I want to say
- Tanzanian Tribe of Straight Women Who Marry Each Other – Kurya Tribe
- #Skada Series 3 – Crime, Implicit Bias, And The New Underclass
- Google Says Machine Learning Chips Make AI Faster and More Efficient
- 107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud | Ars Technica
- ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ isn’t just timely, it’s essential viewing for our fractured culture – The Washington Post
- "The Trump White House has turned into a kind of playground for the press." – PressThink
- ‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence – The New York Times
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RT @ReignOfApril: Blink twice if y’all were forced into letting him speak.
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Shut down on April 28.
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RT @ftcreature: just your friendly neighborhood snoot
- 15 Good Dark Comedies to Watch on Netflix in April 2017
- CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna shares her outlook for the groundbreaking gene-editing tool | April 24, 2017 Issue – Vol. 95 Issue 17 | Chemical & Engineering News
- SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory
RT @pourmecoffee: The Sun: not messing around
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RT @pourmecoffee: The Sun: not messing around
- The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today | The Nation
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How cool.
(I think we women CS PhDs could use a sword… but I digress)
- Denying climate change as the seas around them rise – CNN.com
well, climate change doesn’t care how many fishermen deny it…
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well, climate change doesn’t care how many fishermen deny it…
- Tom Cox | Mixcloud
- Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA’s Would-Be Cat Spy – The Atlantic
- ′Climate change allows terrorists to thrive′ | DW Environment | DW.COM | 20.04.2017
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April 23rd, 2017 — pinboard
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April 22nd, 2017 — pinboard
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April 21st, 2017 — pinboard
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April 20th, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @JamesFallows: This is simply nuts.
I wouldn’t go to any country that asked this of me (not even China did)
What traveler will cho…
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RT @EdJoyce: March (& 2017 so far) 2nd warmest on record for Earth. March average global temp 1.89°F above average…
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RT @StefanKertesz: Portugal’s 95% reduction in drug related HIV infection sounds good to me h/t @CatchTheBaby
- Untitled (http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/04/18/524380027/in-portugal-drug-use-is-treated-as-a-medical-issue-not-a-crime)
RT @StefanKertesz: Portugal’s 95% reduction in drug related HIV infection sounds good to me h/t @CatchTheBaby
- How I Feel As a Native Woman When Trump Idolizes Andrew Jackson | Teen Vogue
- Exxon Seeks U.S. Waiver to Resume Russia Oil Venture – WSJ
- Antarctic Scientists Go Chasing Waterfalls – The Atlantic
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RT @saletan: I’ll never forget this image of a serial sexual predator sitting there, in the White House, doing a Super Bowl inte…
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RT @EdJoyce: "They were trying to grow but were dissolving at the same time" Warming waters, ocean acidification & sea life…
- Mr. Trump Plays by His Own Rules (or No Rules) – The New York Times
- Why Was Bill O’Reilly Really Fired? – The Atlantic
RT @fordm: Good reminder from @megangarber of the views O’Reilly used his massive platform to advance
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RT @fordm: Good reminder from @megangarber of the views O’Reilly used his massive platform to advance
- ‘Purple Rain’ Deluxe Edition tracklist revealed – including never-before-heard recordings | Local Current Blog | The Current from Minnesota Public Radio
- The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black – Features – The Stranger
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RT @nitashatiku: "Musk got rolled by Trump. He has gotten absolutely nothing.”
- Untitled (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/this-man-is-spending-millions-to-break-elon-musk-s-trump-ties)
RT @nitashatiku: "Musk got rolled by Trump. He has gotten absolutely nothing.”
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Signal fundraiser
- Imgur Post – Imgur
Amazon Echo or African Grey parrot: pick one https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/66cfwe/attaboy_larry/
- Attaboy, Larry – funny
Amazon Echo or African Grey parrot: pick one https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/66cfwe/attaboy_larry/
- Since a properly executed barrel roll can be a 1-G maneuver, it’s technically po… | Hacker News
- Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance
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This movie looks scarier than I remember.
- Google Plans Ad-Blocking Feature in Popular Chrome Browser – WSJ
- This Bulletproof College Apparel Will Be Useful in States That Let Students Carry Guns – Adweek
- Facebook has a plan to let you type with your brain
- Why Fox News finally dropped Bill O’Reilly – Vox
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RT @patdennis: hello, i have traveled far, who do i talk to about your climate policies
- We just got a huge sign that the US intelligence community believes the Trump dossier is legitimate
We just got a huge sign that the US intelligence community believes the Trump dossier is legitimate
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RT @brianbeutler: Had forgotten about this, with all the stuff happening.
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