Entries from March 2018 ↓

• Twitter
  RT @fchollet: TensorFlow.js: train and use deep learning models directly in the browser, in JavaScript. Includes the full Keras A…
• For the Love of ‘George and Martha’ – The New York Times
• Research Blog: Using Machine Learning to Discover Neural Network Optimizers
• Next Week’s Playlist
• How to Ask a Busy Executive for Anything – Brian Fitzpatrick – Medium
• What It’s Like to Watch Isle of Dogs As a Japanese Speaker
• Review: Glenda Jackson Gets Her Queen Lear Moment in ‘Three Tall Women’ – The New York Times
• tensorflow/dev_summit_2018_demo.ipynb at master · tensorflow/tensorflow · GitHub
• Firebase Dynamic Links | Deep link potential users to the right place inside your app  |  Firebase
• Twitter
  RT @asiersanznieto: Me han galardonado con el el Premio del Público en la 29ª Biennale Internazionale dell´Umorismo nell´Arte con este…
• Who Does She Think She Is?
• The #MeToo Movement and Its Impact on Women’s Writing | WritersDigest.com

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• Dev Summit  |  TensorFlow
• google/nucleus: Python and C++ code for reading and writing genomics data.
  Python and C++ code for reading and writing genomics data.
• nucleus/overview.md at master · google/nucleus
• Enlightenment Here | Commonweal Magazine
• Opinion | The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I’m Not Going to Keep Watching. – The New York Times
• The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Scandal, According To My Mom | HuffPost
• Edgar Wright Interviews Steven Spielberg About Duel, Feature | Movies – Empire
• Writing During Your Daily Commute: The Story of Fiona Mozley’s ‘Elmet’ – The Millions
• Johan van Hulst, Dutch schoolteacher who saved hundreds of Jewish children during Holocaust, dies at 107 – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @sarahkendzior: I’m very tired, but I’ll just say for now: people need to stop the proposed census manipulation or we have no shot…
• Analyzing NCAA Basketball with GCP – Medium

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• Health tech startup 98point6 raises $19.5M to connect patients with doctors in new ‘virtual clinic’ – GeekWire
• Maruman Mnemosyne N180A Imagination Notebook – A4 – 5 mm Graph – JetPens.com
• Fountain Pen Friendly Paper – JetPens.com
• Colorverse Fountain Pen Ink Bottles – JetPens.com
• The Americans – Vulture
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• tf-estimator-tutorials/02.0 – CNN with CIFAR-10 tfrecords dataset.ipynb at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/tf-estimator-tutorials · GitHub
• ‘The Americans’ Season 6 Review
• Fandom’s Great Divide | The New Yorker
• A Report of Vandalism, a Police Shooting and a Rage Rekindled – The New York Times
• TAIR – About Arabidopsis
• Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits
• Trump’s Lawyer Raised Prospect of Pardons for Flynn and Manafort as Special Counsel Closed In – The New York Times
• Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the allure of race science – Vox
• hamelsmu/ktext: Utilities for preprocessing text for deep learning with Keras
  Utilities for preprocessing text for deep learning with Keras
• Greenland is melting faster than at any time in the last 450 years (at least) – The Washington Post
• Greenland is melting faster than at any time in the last 450 years (at least) – The Washington Post
• how-white-american-terrorists-are-radicalized
• The Year of the Jumpsuit
• How DevRel fits the business – Dev Prod – Medium
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• tensorflow/agents: Efficient Batched Reinforcement Learning in TensorFlow
  Efficient Batched Reinforcement Learning in TensorFlow
  This project provides optimized infrastructure for reinforcement learning. It extends the OpenAI gym interface to multiple parallel environments and allows agents to be implemented in TensorFlow and perform batched computation. As a starting point, we provide BatchPPO, an optimized implementation of Proximal Policy Optimization.
• A Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder – The New York Times
• What We Can Learn From Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
• [1803.08035] Zero-shot Recognition via Semantic Embeddings and Knowledge Graphs
  We consider the problem of zero-shot recognition: learning a visual classifier for a category with zero training examples, just using the word embedding of the category and its relationship to other categories, which visual data are provided. The key to dealing with the unfamiliar or novel category is to transfer knowledge obtained from familiar classes to describe the unfamiliar class. In this paper, we build upon the recently introduced Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) and propose an approach that uses both semantic embeddings and the categorical relationships to predict the classifiers. Given a learned knowledge graph (KG), our approach takes as input semantic embeddings for each node (representing visual category). After a series of graph convolutions, we predict the visual classifier for each category. During training, the visual classifiers for a few categories are given to learn the GCN parameters. At test time, these filters are used to predict the visual classifiers of unseen categories. We show that our approach is robust to noise in the KG. More importantly, our approach provides significant improvement in performance compared to the current state-of-the-art results (from 2 ~ 3% on some metrics to whopping 20% on a few).
• "Never apologize, never explain!" Pictures of Marianne Faithfull – Flashbak
• The Male Glance | VQR Online
• Sean Penn The Novelist Must Be Stopped
• Google loses Android battle and could owe Oracle billions of dollars – Mar. 27, 2018
• Supplementary material for Faces, people and the brain: The 45th Sir Frederic Bartlett Lecture
• How DevRel fits the business – Dev Prod – Medium
• Charles Proxy now available on iOS – Karl von Randow

  This is really fun. It sets itself up as a VPN in order to intercept traffic, and can intercept SSL too if you install its certificate. Worth the $8.99 – lets you spy on apps without having to proxy through a laptop https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/978844829277917189

• Research Blog: Using Deep Learning to Facilitate Scientific Image Analysis
• DataCenterNews Asia – GTC18 – NVIDIA ready to go all out on inferencing
• Inspecting Algorithms for Bias – MIT Technology Review
• kubeflow/example-seldon: Example for end-to-end machine learning on Kubernetes using Kubeflow and Seldon Core
  Example for end-to-end machine learning on Kubernetes using Kubeflow and Seldon Core
• SeldonIO/seldon-core: Machine Learning Deployment for Kubernetes
  Seldon Core is an open source platform for deploying machine learning models on Kubernetes.
• Past Events | GDG Cloud Seattle (Seattle, WA) | Meetup

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• Kubernetes: Kubernetes 1.10: Stabilizing Storage, Security, and Networking
• Stanford DAWN Deep Learning Benchmark (DAWNBench) ·
• Rules of Machine Learning:  |  Google Developers
• Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  Why whales are big but not bigger: Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/20/1712629115 https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/978442421611544576/photo/1

• Ian Goodfellow on Twitter: "Thread on how to review papers about generic improvements to GANs"
  Thread on how to review papers about generic improvements to GANs
• Forget private school, it’s all in the genes | Comment | The Times

  ICYMI matt ridley on genes and education. Conveniently fails to mention that the strongest predictor of exam success is not a child’s genetic score, but family wealth. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forget-private-school-its-all-in-thegenes-hzxfj8nwd

• How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace
• Lights, Camera, Artificial Action: Start-Up Is Taking A.I. to the Movies – The New York Times
• 21 Good Beach Reads to Read on Spring Break 2018
• ICE Uses Facebook Data to Find and Track Suspects, Internal Emails Show

  New FOIA documents show how ICE uses backend Facebook data to track and arrest immigrants https://theintercept.com/2018/03/26/facebook-data-ice-immigration/

• Stop Shielding Gun Makers – The New York Times
• In google-cloud-ml, setup.py error during setting up PYTORCH – Stack Overflow
• The Stormy Daniels scandal is not gossip
• The Last Days of Facebook?
• Police treat killing of elderly woman in Paris as antisemitic attack | World news | The Guardian
• Pet Safety in Emergencies | Healthy Pets Healthy People | CDC

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• Basic Usage — jrnl 1.9.8 documentation
• ✨How to train a neural coreference model— Neuralcoref 2
• Apple confirms it now uses Google Cloud for iCloud services – The Verge
• Why It’s So Hard to Hear Negative Feedback – The New York Times
• In the Company of Givers and Takers
• Gun Laws and March For Our Lives – What Happens After Saturday’s March?
• Parts of Speech
• Mueller probe witness secretly backed UAE agenda in Congress
• What is Glitch? – Glitch – Medium
• GitHub – zonination/perceptions: Perceptions of Probability and Numbers
• Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns – The Washington Post
• The Plight of Working Women, as Seen by the Woman in the Corner Office – The New York Times

  Looking forward to @joannelipman’s new book. Along with @emilychangtv’s Brotopia, they pull back the curtain on systemic manipulation & bone-deep bias. The result: a weird combination of relief & anger. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/books/review/joanne-lipman-thats-what-she-said-women-at-work.html

• Almost Half of the Businesses in Ghana Are Owned By Women – Black Enterprise
• Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR | New Scientist
• jrnl- The Command Line Journal
• 4 command line note-taking applications for Linux | Opensource.com
• Start a blog in 30 minutes with Hugo, a static site generator written in Go | Opensource.com
• What the Stormy Daniels Interview Demands of Congress – The Atlantic
• Does Bollywood have a woman problem? | Arts & Culture | Al Jazeera
• Threatened blue carbon ecosystems store carbon 40 times faster than forests – Science News – ABC News
• Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices – The Verge
• Merriam-Webster on Twitter: "’Cleave’: to split ‘Cleave’: to adhere firmly ‘Clip’: to attach ‘Clip’: to cut off ‘Oversight’: watchful care ‘Oversight’: error of omission Talkin’ Janus words: https://t.co/sDmkcHEoOq"
• Massimo on Twitter: "A tussle for supremacy between left and right halves of your brain is why yellow dots disappear, staring at the green one https://t.co/TF13x8zKZH… https://t.co/HHAgS7TrXy"
• Stormy Daniels’ 60 Minutes interview showed us the story isn’t about sex. It’s about power. – Vox
• Susan Schorn on Twitter: "Instantly iconic: A young boy reacts to a gun-wielding counterprotester at the Austin #MarchForOurLives. Photo Credit: John Bullington… https://t.co/EAjfvEI8eG"
• 27 Stunning Illustrations by Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian nights, 1907 | Kenga Rex
• Domain Awareness System – Wikipedia
• Search for Jobs

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• 57 Things We Learned from Rian Johnson’s ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Commentary
• The Myth Of Traveling Light
• Climate change could wipe out more than half of African birds, mammals by 2100: biodiversity report – The Hindu
• DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE LONGLIST 2018 – The Desmond Elliott Prize
• Drillers snap up federal leases near Utah’s wilderness monuments | Reuters

  The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday auctioned off more than 51,000 acres (21,000 hectares) in southeastern Utah for oil and gas development, a sign of strong industry demand in a region conservationists have vowed to protect.
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-utah-energy/drillers-snap-up-federal-leases-near-utahs-wilderness-monuments-idUSKBN1GW1AL

• emma-gonzalez-is-responsible-for-the-loudest-silence-in-the-history-of-us-social-protest
• cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer
• Considerable Embarrassment | Laptop Bags by Crumpler
• Stormy Daniels, Trump’s Unlikely Foe, Is ‘Not Someone to Be Underestimated’ – The New York Times
• Patrick McKenzie on Twitter: "Also hate to be Marxist before my morning coffee but the "You should be *passionate* about this stuff" memeplex is designed to decrease your wages. "I want missionaries not mercenaries" is a cynical negotiating strategy; they
• The United States Can No Longer Continue To Dismiss Its Enemies’ Fears
• Seven years at Docker
• Pinboard on Twitter: "If you’re barred from donating to Federal candidates because you’re not a US citizen/green card holder, or because you’re a Federal contractor, I can’t think of a better place to donate than Beyond The Choir, the group behind LSU and
• Emma González on Why This Generation Needs Gun Control | Teen Vogue

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• The Best Stand Up on Netflix — Every New 2018 Comedy Special, Ranked | IndieWire | Page 3
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• Aashna Shroff, “Bridging the Gender Gap in Technology in Developing Countries” – YouTube
• Fundraiser for CITTA Inc. by Citta Central : Cultural Festival: Girls Education
• Prerna Girls School
• 15 Years of Collecting Rhino Semen Is Finally Paying Off – Mother Jones
• China and Vulnerability Research – the grugq – Medium
• Arvind Narayanan on Twitter: "Tech buzzwords explained: AI—regression Big data—data Blockchain—database Algorithm—automated decision-making Cloud—Internet Crypto—cryptocurrency Dark web—Onion service Data science—statistics done by nonstat
• Devorah Heitner Remembers the Simon’s Rock Shooting – The Atlantic
• On Retirement – Studio D – Medium
• Bletchley Park | What’s on — Hut 11A: The Bombe Breakthrough
• Nathalie Cabrol Searches the Earth for the Secrets of Life on Mars – The New York Times
• The Last Days of Reality

  Finally got around to reading @mpesce’s excellent (and extremely relevant) essay The Last Days of Reality. About machine-learning, Facebook, ‘technologically supported hallucination’, augmented reality and more https://meanjin.com.au/essays/the-last-days-of-reality/

• GitHub – batzner/indrnn: TensorFlow implementation of Independently Recurrent Neural Networks
• Bitcoin Is Ridiculous. Blockchain Is Dangerous: Paul Ford – Bloomberg
• Whistleblowers: John Bolton super PAC used compromised Facebook data – CNNPolitics
• At Mars, Jeff Bezos Hosted Roboticists, Astronauts, Other Brainiacs and Me – The New York Times
• Scott Kerr on Twitter: "“Automation: Friend, not Foe” informational pamphlet published by Good Reading Rack Service, 1955… "
• Pinboard on Twitter: "I’ll be sending out another Great Slate update later today for people who want to nerd out in more detail about how the campaigns are doing. You can sign up for this 1-2 email/week list here: https://t.co/GMKpJDQFHi"
• Earthquake early warning system gets big funding boost in new budget
• How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer | Open Culture
• Leaked: Cambridge Analytica’s blueprint for Trump victory | UK news | The Guardian
• Inside Broadway’s Secret Laboratory: ‘Hamilton,’ ‘Frozen,’ and So Much More – The New York Times

  This is absolutely *STELLAR* work from @MichaelPaulson and the NYT video team (including @maeryan) taking you behind the scenes for Broadway rehearsals, including @FrozenBroadway and @HamiltonMusical. Urge you to watch: http://nyti.ms/2FVBduO

• Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan
• Curiosities Archives – Undark

  Undark is a free, nonprofit digital magazine exploring the intersection of science & everyday life.

  Our board members include Mary Roach, Carl Zimmer, and Rebecca Skloot. Our publisher is Pulitzer-winning science writer Deborah Blum.

  Take a look around: https://undark.org/tag/curiosities/ https://twitter.com/undarkmag/status/974270403295117312/photo/1

• The Latest Cambridge Analytica Exposé Raises More Questions About the Firm’s Role in the Trump Campaign | The New Yorker
• Car companies hire climate science denier to do hit job on clean cars – ThinkProgress
• Stephen Works Out With Ruth Bader Ginsburg – YouTube

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• Puncturing the pipeline: Do technology companies alienate women in recruiting sessions? – Alison T Wynn, Shelley J Correll, 2018
• Big Picture: Google Visualization Research
• Death of a Pig – The Atlantic
• ‘Steve’: the mystery purple aurora that rivals the northern lights | Science | The Guardian

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• All of a Sudden, Voting Rights Are Expanding Across the Country – Mother Jones

  Proud to say that Washington state is leading the pushback against national efforts to curtail the right to vote https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/all-of-a-sudden-voting-rights-are-expanding-across-the-country/

• FEMA Strips Mention of ‘Climate Change’ From Its Strategic Plan – Bloomberg
• Paris Review – Elizabeth Bishop, The Art of Poetry No. 27
• The 100 Best Movies on Netflix
• Mars’ Oceans Formed Early, Possibly Aided By Massive Volcanic Eruptions – SpaceRef
• Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica | News | The Guardian
• Oklahoma Republicans are tearing themselves apart as they confront the economic wreckage of their policies / Boing Boing
• Twitter
  RT @baratunde: This @nytimes piece is a gut punch. It includes a data visualization that shows the invisible hand of systemic raci…

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