Entries from July 2018 ↓

• Interactive 1811 Plan
• Immigrant Parents Face a Dilemma: Will Making an Asylum Claim Make it Harder to Reunite with Their Kids? | The New Yorker
• St. Louis Uber driver has put video of hundreds of passengers online. Most have no idea. | Metro | stltoday.com
• She Gave Millions to Artists Without Credit. Until Now. – The New York Times
• S1 E6: Roxane Gay | Breaking Big | Programs | PBS SoCal
• Busy Bees Use Flower Petals For Nest Wallpaper : NPR
• Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
• Revealed: The People Behind an Anti-Breitbart Twitter Account – The New York Times
• A Different Kind Of Day on Vimeo
• Twitter
  RT @YaleGramDiv: YGDP’s very own Katie Martin has just published a wonderful piece in Slate on linguistic prejudice. This is such an…
• Linguistic prejudice in Sorry to Bother You is a real-world problem.
• Twitter
  RT @pourmecoffee: Insanely detailed and gorgeous new images from @CassiniSaturn of Saturn’s moon Titan
• Space Images | Seeing Titan with Infrared Eyes
  RT @pourmecoffee: Insanely detailed and gorgeous new images from @CassiniSaturn of Saturn’s moon Titan
• Petition · John Walrath: Allow Virginia inmates to play role-playing games · Change.org
• Michiko Kakutani on Her New Book, The Death of Truth
• Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network | OpnSec
• Google launches a DRM-free audiobook store: finally, a writer- and listener-friendly Audible alternative! / Boing Boing
• Researchers Tricked AI Into Doing Free Computations It Wasn’t Trained to Do – Motherboard
• Twitter
  RT @AP_Images: #OTD in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reac…
• Twitter
  RT @markrittman: At first glance this is just amazing: the new @GCPDataML #bigquery console UI comes with an (beta) ‘Explore in Data…

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• Fruit fly species can learn each other’s dialects: Communal living improves interspecies communication between fruit flies — ScienceDaily
• Newly discovered armored dinosaur from Utah reveals intriguing family history: Spikey southwestern species evolved from Asian ancestors — ScienceDaily
• Opinion | Trump Is Being Manipulated by Putin. What Should We Do? – The New York Times
• Paul Kedrosky on Twitter: "tl;dr: A new daily flight from Silicon Valley to an international city leads to $23 million of additional venture capital raised by startups in the region. The Impact of Non-stop Flights to Silicon Valley on Raising Venture Cap
• Baby Snake Fossil Found Trapped in Amber Offers Clues on Evolution – The New York Times
• The scent of coffee appears to boost performance in math: Smelling a coffee-like scent, which has no caffeine in it, creates an expectation for students that they will perform better on tests — ScienceDaily
• Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to spark fires | Cosmos
• Start an Expedition | Open Explorer
• Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome – The New York Times
• Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia – The Washington Post
• frank on Twitter: "Good afternoon to this video of Ramona Singer teaching us how to make her "perfect summer cocktail" which is just a vodka soda.… https://t.co/ozLGsP0XBZ"
• Opinion | Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About ‘Trump Country’ – The New York Times
• Terms of Service Violation
  RT @GeorgeMonbiot: This is what we were warned about. But it was not supposed to happen so soon.
  #climatebreakdown
• Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions
• When a Tech Reporter Doesn’t Use Much Tech – The New York Times
• Europe’s Blistering Heatwave Is Ruining This Year’s Harvest – Bloomberg
• The Strange and Curious Case of the Deadly Superbug Yeast | WIRED
• The Health 202: There’s a Medicaid ‘subsidy cliff’ health-care officials are worried about – The Washington Post
• The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
• Provider: Google Cloud – Terraform by HashiCorp
  Google Cloud Provider
• tf.contrib.eager.defun  |  TensorFlow
  Compiles a Python function into a callable TensorFlow graph.
• How One Year of Microdosing Helped My Career, Relationships, and Happiness

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• In India, Summer Heat May Soon Be Literally Unbearable – The New York Times
• Dr. Death | by Lisa Appignanesi | The New York Review of Books
• What Robert Mueller Knows—and 9 Areas He’ll Pursue Next | WIRED
• U.S. Officials ‘at a Fucking Loss’ Over Latest Russia Sell Out
• From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered – The New York Times
• Zuckerberg clarifies: ‘I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.’ – Recode
• CEOs: Are you asking yourself the hard questions? – Project Include – Medium
• Google Cloud AI Huddle: an open, collaborative, and developer-first AI forum driven by Google AI expertise | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud

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• AutoGraph converts Python into TensorFlow graphs – TensorFlow – Medium
  We’d like to tell you about a new TensorFlow feature called “AutoGraph”. AutoGraph converts Python code, including control flow, print() and other Python-native features, into pure TensorFlow graph code.
• Briar on Twitter: "There are some fundamental problems that we keep running up against while working on Briar. We wrote them down and maybe you have ideas for solving one of these: https://t.co/vwykzzDU1Y"
• Lyme disease vaccine: the frustrating reason there isn’t one for humans – Vox
• How Google’s Safe Browsing Helped Build a More Secure Web | WIRED
• Google Fined $5.1 Billion by E.U. in Android Antitrust Ruling – The New York Times
• If Kavanaugh is confirmed, you can kiss the right to vote goodbye – ThinkProgress
• Europe hits Google with record $5 billion antitrust fine over bundling of its apps on Android smartphones, tablets – The Washington Post
• Immigrant Kids Describe ‘Nightmare’ Conditions In Detention Centers – Talking Points Memo
• A Stabbing On Samish Island: The Radicalization Of Lane Davis
• How Sacha Baron Cohen fooled the nation’s leaders – POLITICO
• Google Escapes Microsoft Levels of Antitrust Pain – Bloomberg
• Oops! Federal Officials Divulged Secret Info About Native American Artifacts – Mother Jones
• Margrethe Vestager on Twitter: "Fine of €4,34 bn to @Google for 3 types of illegal restrictions on the use of Android. In this way it has cemented the dominance of its search engine. Denying rivals a chance to innovate and compete on the merits. It’s
• Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States – Motherboard
• ‘She was like a novelty’: How alleged Russian agent Maria Butina gained access to elite conservative circles – The Washington Post
• Trump is a sad, embarrassing wreck of a man – The Washington Post
• How American Racism Influenced Hitler | The New Yorker
• How Climate Change in Bangladesh Impacts Women and Girls | Teen Vogue
• Simon Kuestenmacher on Twitter: "Beautiful animated #map shows precipitation (rain) across the continuous US. Gorgeous natural wave pattern. Source: https://t.co/jYsPcomuOz… https://t.co/gKn0TmTkVD"
• NSA and Cyber Command to coordinate actions to counter Russian election interference in 2018 amid absence of White House guidance – The Washington Post
• NASA – Mars Curiosity Entry/Decent and Landing "7 Minutes of Terror!" Full Story! (HD) – YouTube
• Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You —… — ProPublica
• Rep. Rohrabacher: Indictment of NRA-linked Russian is ‘stupid’ – POLITICO
• Parker Posey Still Loves Generation X – The New York Times
• The Barriers That Keep Blacks and Latinos From Voting – The Atlantic
• ‘Like losing family’: time may be running out for New Zealand’s most sacred tree | World news | The Guardian
• Robin Williams’s Best Role
• Demand Congress pass the Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018 right now! – Action Network
• The Healing Buzz of “Drunk History” | The New Yorker

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• ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism | Society | The Guardian
• Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2018 Book Preview – The Millions
• Bobby Wilson, Arizona Senate candidate, says he killed his mother
• Trump Sheds All Notions of How a President Should Conduct Himself Abroad – The New York Times
• The Anthony Bourdain Interview
• An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem
• Twitter
  RT @ScottMStedman: Now that WaPo is suggesting it, I can confirm that Paul Erickson is US Person 1 in the Butina indictment.
• Twitter
  RT @krassenstein: BREAKING: A Senior German official just told CNN that Germany, for the first time since WWII ended, requires a stra…
• Twitter
  RT @emilynussbaum: tfw the most *benign* explanation for your president’s traitorous behavior is cognitive decline combined with clini…
• Gore (the Gore-Tex Company) Thinks It Holds the Key to On-Skin Wearables – IEEE Spectrum
• Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia – The Washington Post
• Gender Inclusive Tech Events: A hands on how-to guide
• PerrySetGo/Gender-Inclusive-Events-Guide: A open source hands-on how-to guide for creating more diverse and gender inclusive (tech) events.
  A open source hands-on how-to guide for creating more diverse and gender inclusive (tech) events.
• Google AI Blog: Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude
  The field of connectomics aims to comprehensively map the structure of the neuronal networks that are found in the nervous system, in order to better understand how the brain works. This process requires imaging brain tissue in 3D at nanometer resolution (typically using electron microscopy), and then analyzing the resulting image data to trace the brain’s neurites and identify individual synaptic connections. Due to the high resolution of the imaging, even a cubic millimeter of brain tissue can generate over 1,000 terabytes of data! When combined with the fact that the structures in these images can be extraordinarily subtle and complex, the primary bottleneck in brain mapping has been automating the interpretation of these data, rather than acquisition of the data itself.

  Today, in collaboration with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, we published “High-Precision Automated Reconstruction of Neurons with Flood-Filling Networks” in Nature Methods, which shows how a new type of recurrent neural network can improve the accuracy of automated interpretation of connectomics data by an order of magnitude over previous deep learning techniques. An open-access version of this work is also available from biorXiv (2017).

• google/neuroglancer: WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data
  WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data
• google/ffn: Flood-Filling Networks for instance segmentation in 3d volumes.
  Flood-Filling Networks for instance segmentation in 3d volumes.

  Flood-Filling Networks (FFNs) are a class of neural networks designed for instance segmentation of complex and large shapes, particularly in volume EM datasets of brain tissue.

  For more details, see the related publications:

  https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00421
  https://doi.org/10.1101/200675
  This is not an official Google product.

• aText – Typing accelerator – Text macro utility for Mac
  aText Typing Accelerator
  aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define

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• gsuitedevs/md2googleslides: Generate Google Slides from markdown
  Generate Google Slides from markdown
• Seedbank: Browse all seeds
• Seedbank
• Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

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• Simple Global roaming calling update FAQs | T-Mobile Support
• Xenographics – Weird but (sometimes) useful charts
• Opinion | Seriously, Juice Is Not Healthy – The New York Times
• We Belong Together — Donate via AB Charities
• Universal health care would save $17 trillion
• 12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation – The New York Times
• Elon Musk revealed as one of the largest donors for a House Republican PAC | Salon.com

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• Sleeping with the Enemy | The New Yorker
• At Uber, New Questions Arise About Executive Behavior – The New York Times
• Cannot erase SD card with Disk Utility (El Capitan) – Ask Different
  sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat
• Why You Should Read the Latest Mueller Indictment Yourself | The New Yorker
• ‘Data is a fingerprint’: why you aren’t as anonymous as you think online | World news | The Guardian
• Facebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn’t banned

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• 4,500 Tech Workers, 1 Mission: Get Democrats Elected – The New York Times
• Guy who says God sends natural disasters to punish gays has his home destroyed in a natural disaster – DeadState
• This enzyme eats plastic waste | World Economic Forum
• Kyle Griffin on Twitter: "This was published today in The Scotsman, Scotland’s national newspaper. Strong language. https://t.co/dPIQpgqoVn… "
• Lessn // ShaunInman.com
• Twitter
  RT @tomi_adeyemi: 4 officers just showed up on my doorstep.

  they showed their badges and asked to speak to someone inside my house.…

• Elon Musk Pledges to Pay for Clean Water to Homes in Flint, Michigan – Bloomberg
• Twitter
  RT @AEDerocher: 2018 June sea ice extent continues the decline at 4.1% per decade. @NSIDC_ArcticIce It’s habitat loss for…
• Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood | Hollywood Reporter
• Twitter
  getting close to “inbox zero”
• Seedbank — discover machine learning examples – TensorFlow – Medium
  Discovering and getting started with Machine Learning can be daunting. Perhaps you have a vague project idea and are looking for a place to start and adapt from. Or you’re looking for inspiration and want to get a sense of what’s possible.

  Today we’re launching Seedbank, a place to discover interactive machine learning examples which you can run from your browser, no set-up required. Each example is a little seed to inspire you that you can edit, extend, and grow into your own projects and ideas, from data analysis problems to art projects.

• Twitter
  "Drinking Up to Eight Cups of Coffee a Day Could Help You Live Longer"
• Twitter
  RT @EdJoyce: Exceptional drought persists in Four Corners region; Moderate & severe drought persists over southern #California (…
• Twitter
  RT @Taniel: Important news in Alabama: Gov. Ivey is ending the practice of allowing county sheriffs to personally pocket (!) fu…
• Twitter
  RT @thinkprogress: Chicago-area cop who ignored woman’s pleas for protection from drunk racist resigns

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• Chicago cop who ignored pleas for protection from drunk racist resigns – ThinkProgress
• Real Earnings Summary
• United States Drought Monitor > Current Map > State Drought Monitor
• How to Really Find Your Passion – The Atlantic
• How Much Coffee Is Good for You? Scientists Believe Drink Could Cut Risk of Death Even in Large Amounts
• Drinking Up to Eight Cups of Coffee a Day Could Help You Live Longer | Mental Floss
• Ed Joyce on Twitter: "Exceptional drought persists in Four Corners region; Moderate & severe drought persists over southern #California (severe or extreme drought covers all of Imperial County). Extreme drought covers 73% of #Arizona. #USdrought covers 30
• Alabama Moves to Limit Sheriffs From Pocketing Jail Food Money – The New York Times
• ‘Mi Amor!’: Tearful Scenes as Immigrant Reunions Begin in New York – The New York Times
• “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind | The New Yorker

  Gay people, trans people, little people: we’re all born in helpless diaspora, and reconstituting the dandelion is the dilemma of our lives.

• Google Online Security Blog: Mitigating Spectre with Site Isolation in Chrome
• Ptolemaic-Era Black Granite Sarcophagus Discovered in Alexandria | Smart News | Smithsonian
• The Human Utility – Detroit water bill assistance
• An Arkansas man complained about police abuse. Then town officials ruined his life. – The Washington Post
• Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online
• Meet Horovod: Uber’s Open Source Distributed Deep Learning Framework
  allred
• training-data-analyst/serving_embed.ipynb at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/training-data-analyst
  Serving embeddings
  This notebook illustrates how to:

  – Create a custom embedding as part of a regression/classification model
  – Representing categorical variables in different ways
  – Math with feature columns
  – Serve out the embedding, as well as the original model’s predictions

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