Entries from December 2017 ↓

• Interview With Jess King (PA-16)
• Twitter
  RT @kcarruthers: Um. I’ve warned before that privacy is becoming a luxury good.
• Deep AutoRegressive Networks
• Deep Generative Models tutorial
  UAI 2017 Australia
• Deep Reinforcement Learning – VideoLectures.NET
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017: Schedule

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• 8 Predictions About Tech in 2018 – The Atlantic
• The Best TV Shows of 2017 – The New York Times
• Making Peace with Personal Branding · fast.ai
• The Most-read WIRED Security Stories of 2017 | WIRED
• Do Women Want to be Oppressed? – Scientific American Blog Network
• Saving the last perfect place in California | The Nature Conservancy – California
• Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person

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• Global Wind Atlas
• How to wrap your Cat for Christmas 101 – YouTube
• Why does the man behind ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Sherlock’ still have a job? | The Daily Dot
• Notes from Jess King’s visit to Bay Area Tech Solidarity
• Tech Solidarity

  You can read interviews with seven of the eight candidates on the Great Slate on the Tech Solidarity resources page (I’ll post Jess King’s tomorrow). They are full of interest! https://techsolidarity.org/resources.html

• The case for technology investments in the environment
• It’s a Really Big Deal That ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Wars’ Centered Their New Stories Around Women
• "Star Wars" Has Created A Villain Too Real For Its Own Fantasy Universe
• ActBlue — Elect Jess King for Congress
• jess king Lancaster PA Mennonite at DuckDuckGo
• Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death – The New York Times
• Is it time to restore Pluto’s planetary status? | Astronomy.com
• 2017 was actually a pretty great year for the climate | Grist
• Jason on Twitter: "There is a miracle drug named Sovaldi that can cure Hepatitis C. It requires 12 weeks of treatment and the cost of Sovaldi for 12 weeks come… https://t.co/5xTRa2Im5F"
• Mourning Ben Barres, The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Neuroscience
• Swearing helps us battle pain — no matter what language we curse in
• Twitter
  RT @jaketapper: The fundraising superiority of @gop over @dnc this year is not to be dismissed and it’s kind of astounding how Demo…
• Twitter
  RT @AoDespair: Never gave $1 to a candidate. Living as I do in a state of relative political sanity, I’ve indulged my greater beli…

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• Interview With Greg Edwards (PA-15)

  I’ve put up an interview I did recently with Greg Edwards, running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 15th district—an extraordinary voice for human dignity, and the one non-white candidate on the Great Slate: https://techsolidarity.org/resources/greg_edwards_interview.html

• It Starts Today – Subscribe to a Better Congress
• Home | FEC
  Federal election commission
• Sam Ramji Talks Developer Experience for Google Cloud – The New Stack
• My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017
• Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly – Scientific American
• Twitter
  RT @Jamie_Woodward_: Against all the odds, this tiny mammoth survived the ice age. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with simple fl…
• Sympathy for the Devil | by Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books
• Kubernetes: Introducing Kubeflow – A Composable, Portable, Scalable ML Stack Built for Kubernetes
• ksonnet: Simplify working with Kubernetes configurations
• Can you think yourself into a different person? | Mosaic
• "Hot dogs or not" at Scale with Kubernetes // Speaker Deck
• Courses and scenarios authored by Kubeflow | Katacoda
• Twitter
  This is a great talk. I did feel strangely compelled to pause it about 5 mins in and go make myself a latte.
• GitHub – alexjc/neural-doodle: Turn your two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks, generate seamless textures from photos, transfer style from one image to another, perform example-based upscaling, but wait… there’s more! (An impleme
• Hard and Soft Skills in Tech – Yonatan Zunger – Medium

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• Can a Government Official Block You on Twitter? | American Civil Liberties Union
• Collision course: Uber’s terrible 2017 | Technology | The Guardian
• How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care – The New York Times
• Globe on an Ostrich Egg is World’s Oldest Depiction of the New World | Ancient Origins
• Globe on an Ostrich Egg is World’s Oldest Depiction of the New World | Ancient Origins
• Charity Navigator – Rating for Direct Relief
• 10 of the Best Charities Everyone’s Heard Of : Charity Navigator
• The Millennia of #MeToo in Mary Beard’s “Women & Power” | The New Yorker
• Limor Fried: building electronic dreams | E&ampT Magazine
• Twitter
  RT @jimray: The work @Pinboard is doing with The Great Slate is incredible. Pitch in a few bucks before the end of the year if…
• The Best Tech Books of 2017 (Part I) | WIRED
• 2018 Election United States House – Iowa – District 04 | FEC
• Keynote David Silver NIPS 2017 Deep Reinforcement Learning Symposium AlphaZero – YouTube
• Blog | HumanProgress.org

  Losses loom larger than gains, and there were many losses in 2017, many reasons for fear or despair. But Marian Tupy lists 82 gains for the year in science, some of which have huge implications:
  http://humanprogress.org/blog/the-worlds-getting-better-all-the-time https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/945611883251453953/photo/1

• Review of the year: the female groundbreakers of 2017 | The Independent

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• Neuroplasticity | The MIT Press
• Laughing parrots, backflipping robots and saviour viruses: science stories of 2017 | Science | The Guardian
• The Modern Jazz Quartet – England´s Carol – YouTube
• 8 New Year’s Resolutions For Radical Resistance – The DiDi Delgado – Medium
• Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims by Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails
• Google shares developer preview of TensorFlow Lite | TechCrunch
• Play by Play: Moving the NYT Games Platform to GCP With Zero Downtime
• Considerations for Sensitive Data within Machine Learning Datasets  |  Solutions  |  Google Cloud Platform

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• Twitter
  RT @elisewho: History says, don’t hope
  On this side of the grave.
  But then, once in a lifetime
  The longed-for tidal wave
  Of justi…
• Harriet Tubman: Former slave who risked all to save others – BBC News
• Researchers Warn of a Spreading Fungus Deadly to Snakes – The New York Times
• For the Refugees – Non-profit organisation helping Snowden’s Guardian Angels
• Twitter
  RT @marsrader: Our home in the vastness of space, glimpsed in whole by human eyes for the first time on Christmas Eve 1968, as Apo…
• Julian Marshall on Twitter: "@UWGCIL here’s the blog site for the Study Abroad course. (nothing posted yet… blogging starts after the course begins).… https://t.co/UeLEZNJHR2"
• Unless Congress Acts, Nearly 2 Million Children Could Lose Health Coverage in January – The New York Times

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• Grizzly bears expected to return to the Bitterroots, eventually | Local | missoulian.com
• If This Is America – The New York Times
• Want to really understand how bitcoin works? Here’s a gentle primer | Ars Technica
• Five Women Are Accusing A Top Left-Leaning Media Executive Of Sexually Harassing Them
• Lost Cat in Seattle, WA 98109
• IBM, Google, Microsoft, and 33 more partner to ensure Kubernetes workload portability | VentureBeat
• Simulating a real-world system in Go – Sameer Ajmani at dotGo 2017
• Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda – The New York Times
  RT @dandrezner: It sure seems like Donald Trump is super-racist.
• Twitter
  RT @dandrezner: It sure seems like Donald Trump is super-racist.
• Twitter
  RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Groping, unwanted kisses, propositions for sex: At Vice, a hard-partying, boundary-pushing culture c…
• As Google AI researcher accused of harassment, female data scientists speak of ‘broken system’ | Technology | The Guardian
  RT @mark_riedl: Ugh. Not only sexual harassment but using funding to buy silence
• As Google AI researcher accused of harassment, female data scientists speak of ‘broken system’ | Technology | The Guardian
  RT @carlzimmer: As Google AI researcher accused of harassment, female data scientists speak of ‘broken system’
• [Film] | CamperForce, by Jessica Bruder and Brett Story | Harper’s Magazine
  After losing their savings in the stock market crash of 2008, seniors Barb and Chuck find seasonal employment at Amazon fulfillment centers.
• 12 things you didn’t know about Local Hero – The Scotsman

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• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: The hurricane in Puerto Rico has become a man-made disaster, with a death toll threatening to eclipse Katrina’s. by…
• Hurricane Maria’s Aftermath in Puerto Rico

  The hurricane in Puerto Rico has become a man-made disaster, with a death toll threatening to eclipse Katrina’s. by @Schwartzesque http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/hurricane-maria-man-made-disaster.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s3&utm_campaign=sharebutton-t via @intelligencer

• Twitter
  RT @_writehanded_: 👍👍👌👇
• Twitter
  RT @DryBertini: “No, Mr. Claus. I expect you to die.”
• Twitter
  RT @cjane87: I’m working on a piece and this Stokely Carmichael quote is something I’ve been thinking on quite a bit.
• Twitter
  RT @GuyEndoreKaiser: Trump is doing a poll comparing Trump’s first year to Obama’s. See if you can spot the inconsistency.
• Under Eric Schmidt, Google evolved from "Don’t be evil" to "Be kind of evil."
• Jin-GleBell Myrrhanda on Twitter: "TOY DRIVE UPDATE: Just checked in, and we have blown past our goal of 20,000 Toys for the children of 🇵🇷! Your holiday spirit is UNSTOPPABLE… https://t.co/Sqatbeoqtz"
• That’s me in the picture: Bruce McCandless, 47, in the world’s first untethered space flight, February 1984 | Science | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @historyasif: Bruce McCandless 1937-2017
• EFF on Twitter: "They see you when you’re browsing, they know when you’re awake. Tired of these invisible trackers following you? Download Privacy Badger on… https://t.co/5pwIFt6vIk"
• 100% Renewable Energy Worldwide Isn’t Just Possible—It’s Also More Cost-Effective
• Twitter
  RT @carlinspace: Guillermo del Toro saw a UFO when he was younger and he hated the design
• The Year in Apocalypses | Hazlitt
• Mary Thengvall on Twitter: "I’m writing a book about the business value of #DevRel & want to include case studies from across the industry. I put together a survey:… https://t.co/qEggTm6Czm"
• roger avary on Twitter: "Honestly, I think my @ASUS C302C Chromebook is the best writing computer I’ve ever owned. What an exceptional system for collaborative & aff… https://t.co/VsQt8CNpFh"
• Snowden-Backed App ‘Haven’ Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @garybernhardt: The Deconstruct 2018 CFP is available only to first-time speakers, airs on the side of diversity in selection, come…
• Twitter
  "Being a woman in male spaces is a gradual, embedded process of disloyalty. When it makes you uncomfortable and sad…
• The Year in Collaboration | Hazlitt

  “All the art I love is essentially large-hearted, but maybe its heart is so large because it has eaten the hearts of others.” I found this essay powerful and unsettling.
  https://hazlitt.net/feature/year-collaboration

• Twitter
  RT @nkjemisin: Miserable, struggling people are easier to control.

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• MIT Tricks Google’s Vision AI into thinking a turtle is a gun – DIY Photography
• deepmind/narrativeqa
  This repository contains the NarrativeQA dataset. It includes the list of documents with Wikipedia summaries, links to full stories, and questions and answers.

  For a detailed description of this see the paper The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge. Please cite the paper if you use this corpus in your work.

• [1712.07040] The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge
  Many machine reading datasets only require extracting a short span/entity. To drive research on systems that can read and understand complex narratives, we introduce NarrativeQA: human questions & answers about entire books/plays/movies. Upcoming in TACL.

  Reading comprehension (RC)—in contrast to information retrieval—requires integrating information and reasoning about events, entities, and their relations across a full document. Question answering is conventionally used to assess RC ability, in both artificial agents and children learning to read. However, existing RC datasets and tasks are dominated by questions that can be solved by selecting answers using superficial information (e.g., local context similarity or global term frequency); they thus fail to test for the essential integrative aspect of RC. To encourage progress on deeper comprehension of language, we present a new dataset and set of tasks in which the reader must answer questions about stories by reading entire books or movie scripts. These tasks are designed so that successfully answering their questions requires understanding the underlying narrative rather than relying on shallow pattern matching or salience. We show that although humans solve the tasks easily, standard RC models struggle on the tasks presented here. We provide an analysis of the dataset and the challenges it presents.

• Machine Learning on OpenShift and Kubernetes – OpenShift Blog
• New York’s Greenwich Village in the ’60 – 45 Best Photos of Greenwich Village in the 1960s
• Neil Bickford on Twitter: "Incredible generative neural network research from NVIDIA, including video, pre-trained networks, and source code: https://t.co/R9Z2jO4CUX"
• Allegations of Racial Bias and Illegal Campaign Activity at a Conservative Nonprofit That Seeks to Transform College Campuses | The New Yorker
• Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country | US news | The Guardian
• The Guardians of the Great Barrier Reef – Foreign Policy
• Converse Urban Utility Uses Gore-Tex to Keep the Water Out | WIRED
• A Week’s Stay at Antarctica’s Only Luxury Campsite Costs as Much as a Car | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @NYTNational: “It’s inhuman to take a baby from its parents,” says the mother of a detained 1-year-old who has not seen his paren…
• Death Comes for Cardinal Law – The Atlantic
• As Artificial Intelligence Advances, Here Are Five Tough Projects for 2018 | WIRED
• Scanning Vulnerabilities in Docker images • Java Bien!
• Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater – The New York Times
• Kubernetes: Introducing Kubeflow – A Composable, Portable, Scalable ML Stack Built for Kubernetes
• The best international fiction of 2017 | CBC Books
• One million people have caught cholera in Yemen. You should be outraged. – The Washington Post
• How Long Does It Take a Southern White Democrat Elected by Black Voters to Shift to the Right? Less Than a Week.  – Rewire
• Down Girl by Kate Manne review – #MeToo and the logic of misogyny | Books | The Guardian
• Twins: A window into human nature | Nancy Segal | TEDxManhattanBeach – YouTube
• Emily Nussbaum: The Best TV Shows of 2017 | The New Yorker

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