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- AstroHackWeek/AstroHackWeek2017: Materials for the 2017 Astro Hack Week
Materials for the 2017 Astro Hack Week
- Astro Hack Week 2017 Code of Conduct
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RT @MichaelJMorell: Amazing article.
Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water
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RT @laurenduca: Just wait until you get to hell
- Kenya has banned plastic bags, with penalties of up to $38,000 or four years in jail — Quartz
- Fascism, American Style – The New York Times
- Trump Rolls Back Obama-Era Flood Standards For Infrastructure Projects : The Two-Way : NPR
- Texas flood disaster: Harvey has unloaded 9 trillion gallons of water – The Washington Post
- Twitter
RT @nycjim: In other news, when Trump was running for president, his company was pursuing deal in Moscow for Trump Tower. Big:…
- Emmylou Harris moved to tears by First Aid Kit at Polar Music Prize – YouTube
- Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president – The Washington Post
- Jim Roberts on Twitter: "In other news, when Trump was running for president, his company was pursuing deal in Moscow for Trump Tower. Big: https://t.co/pRSHZiX8qM https://t.co/788WUHDi8V"
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RT @JoyAnnReid: Trump is nothing if not consistent. He believes in a brutal police state for black and brown people, and cuddles fo…
- Preventing climate change and adapting to it are not morally equivalent | Grist
- Help For Houston
- Help For Houston
- Maybe Trump is a kind of cry for help from the Earth, a human flare | Frankie Boyle | Opinion | The Guardian
- ryan cooper on Twitter: "remembering this old John Holbo review of David Frum https://t.co/sVvZMxkyAI https://t.co/5qvaqsC6BG"
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RT @Mike_Hixenbaugh: Pro tip: Don’t touch the floating fire ant colonies. They will ruin your day. #Harvey
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RT @OmarVillafranca: Fire ants form a protective island as they float out the #Houston flood
- Supporting those affected by Hurricane Harvey
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RT @sarahkendzior: In 2012, Trump used Sandy as a pretext to harass Obama. Thread is filled with people begging him to donate to hurri…
- Four cups of coffee a day could slash chance of early death
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RT @TheAtlantic: "We are living through a battle for the soul of this nation." @JoeBiden writes on Charlottesville and its aftermath…
- Houston TranStar Cameras
- How to Not Give a Shit With Author Samantha Irby
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RT @christinawilkie: This tweet, and the page it links to, both fail to mention that the author of the op-ed is paid to run Arpaio’s leg…
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August 25th, 2017 — pinboard
- tensorflow – Where to perform tf.string_split() operation – Stack Overflow
- Marketo picks Google Cloud to migrate from on-prem data centers | TechCrunch
- The New York Times shows how to fail miserably while covering Africa – The Washington Post
- Judge orders tech company to release Web user data from anti-Trump website – The Washington Post
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past – The New York Times
- "Hi this is the Ushahidi Facebook Messenger Chatbot" — Meeting people where they already are – Ushahidi
- Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in ‘biggest attack’ in 50 years | Environment | The Guardian
RT @guardianeco: Brazil abolishes huge Amazon reserve in ‘biggest attack’ in 50 years
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RT @tveitdal: Climate change has thawed Arctic enough for Russian tanker to sail through Arctic without icebreaker for 1st time…
- The U.S. Spy Hub in the Heart of Australia
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RT @caityweaver: "I’m sorry, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now. Why? Oh…because she’s dead."
- Golan Levin on Twitter: "Uli Westphal’s study of elephants as imagined by medieval illustrators: top-notch visual research https://t.co/9VxOSrIxog"
- Craig Venter: DNA is going digital – Axios
- The Hill on Twitter: "National Institutes of Health removes references to climate change from website https://t.co/vxopWSVycJ https://t.co/xMpxdMTtvC"
- 31 Senators Ask Trump Administration To Not Strip Nursing Home Residents, Families Of Their Legal Rights – Consumerist
- Gary Cohn urges Trump team to do more to condemn neo-Nazis
- Ex-Neo Nazis Explain What’s Driving the Alt-Right – VICE
- Bed bug infestation bites Fort Knox, evacuating 3,000 workers as – WDRB 41 Louisville News
- ‘It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis – The New York Times
- New Purple Pig-Nose Frog Found in Remote Mountains
- Turd Reich: San Francisco dog owners lay minefield of poo for rightwing rally | World news | The Guardian
- pourmecoffee on Twitter: "As a leading connoisseur of "Natural Blue" live versions, the strings popping in this one are really nice https://t.co/yiTuaTOLsI"
- Julie Byrne – Melting Grid – 6/26/2017 – Paste Studios, New York, NY – YouTube
- Google Cloud Platform Blog: Titan in depth: Security in plaintext
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RT @NWSEastern: 30-second imagery of rapidly intensifying Hurricane #Harvey from GOES-16.
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RT @doctorwhy: This is what censorship looks like.
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RT @JesseRodriguez: 25 years ago today, Miami’s Metro Zoo moved the flamingos into the restroom. Hurricane Andrew would come ashore the…
- Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate – ProPublica
- Trump’s Arizona Speech Shows the Danger of Supporting the President
- Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? – Atlas Obscura
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August 24th, 2017 — pinboard
- Things We Read This Week – Times Open
- Continuous Deployment to Google Cloud Platform with Drone
- Twitter
RT @lak_gcp: price or performance? you can now choose.
- Military Transgender Ban to Begin Within 6 Months, Memo Says – NYTimes.com
- Trump Takes Aim at the Press, With a Flamethrower – The New York Times
- A Prehistoric Toothless Dolphin That Ate by Vacuuming Up Squid – The Atlantic
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RT @NYTScience: Scientists are finding that bioluminescence is so common in the oceans that it is one of Earth’s dominant traits…
- The Deep Seas Are Alive With Light – The New York Times
- Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars – The Atlantic
RT @100ZEROES: This is the most info out of @Waymo that I think has ever been shared publicly. Wow.
- Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars – The Atlantic
- Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing – The New York Times
RT @stoweboyd: Worldwide permafrost is thought to contain ~2X as much carbon as is currently in the atmosphere And it’s melting
- Thoughts after taking the Deeplearning.ai courses – Towards Data Science – Medium
- U.N. Panel Condemns Trump’s Response to Charlottesville Violence – The New York Times
- The President of Blank Sucking Nullity | The Baffler
- White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban – WSJ
- Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale | Metamarkets
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RT @CassiniSaturn: Five years ago this week we captured this view of Saturn and the rings. Details:
- Cassini: The Grand Finale: Dwarfed by Saturn
RT @CassiniSaturn: Five years ago this week we captured this view of Saturn and the rings. Details:
- NYTimes/marvin: A go-kit HTTP server for the App Engine Standard Environment
Marvin is a go-kit server for Google App Engine
Marvin + GAE -> let’s get it oooonnnn!
:insert adorable Marvin Gaye inspired gopher here:
Marvin provides common tools and structure for services being built on Google App Engine by leaning heavily on the go-kit/kit/transport/http package. The service interface here is very similar to the service interface in NYT’s gizmo/server/kit package so teams can build very similar looking software but use vasty different styles of infrastructure.
Marvin has been built to work with Go 1.8, currently in open beta on App Engine Standard. Use it by setting api_version: go1.8 in your app.yaml.
- Moving The New York Times Games Platform to Google App Engine
RT @iRomin: 3-person team running @nytimes Crossword site, running costs slashed to half, powered by AppEngine + Go and more.
- [1708.05866] A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep reinforcement learning is poised to revolutionise the field of AI and represents a step towards building autonomous systems with a higher level understanding of the visual world. Currently, deep learning is enabling reinforcement learning to scale to problems that were previously intractable, such as learning to play video games directly from pixels. Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are also applied to robotics, allowing control policies for robots to be learned directly from camera inputs in the real world. In this survey, we begin with an introduction to the general field of reinforcement learning, then progress to the main streams of value-based and policy-based methods. Our survey will cover central algorithms in deep reinforcement learning, including the deep Q-network, trust region policy optimisation, and asynchronous advantage actor-critic. In parallel, we highlight the unique advantages of deep neural networks, focusing on visual understanding via reinforcement learning. To conclude, we describe several current areas of research within the field.
- colinraffel.com : My Year at Brain
- Dreamscapes go to Google-NYC – Google Photos
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