Entries from January 2019 ↓

• DeepLearning Images Revision M19. TensorFlow 2.0 experimental.
• Opinion | I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine. – The New York Times
• Reading Fiction Really Will Make You Nicer and More Empathetic, New Study Says | Inc.com
• Overlooked No More: Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian Poet Who Broke Barriers of Sex and Society – The New York Times
• NRA Heavyweight Wanted Access to Putin: Leaked Email
• “Housing first” approach works for homeless, study says – The Washington Post
• US, China lead race for artificial intelligence patents: UN | USA News | Al Jazeera
• Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps – The Verge
• Outfit Inspiration: 11 Stylish Women on Their Everyday Fashion Uniforms – Glamour
• These Patients Had Sickle-Cell Disease. Experimental Therapies Might Have Cured Them. – The New York Times
• She’s Not ‘The One’: The Antidote To Sexism In The Race Toward The Presidency | HuffPost
• Forget Marie Kondo’s ruthless rules: here’s a gentler way to declutter your home, one step at a time
• New Planned Parenthood President: No Politics in the Exam Room. | Adolescent Medicine | JAMA | JAMA Network
• ageron/tf2_course: Notebooks for my "Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras" course
  Notebooks for my "Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras" course
• Amazon.com: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet eBook: Claire L. Evans: Books
• (2) From Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Next ’18) – YouTube

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• Gone in a Generation: How climate change is disrupting American lives – Washington Post
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Market Sentiment From Photos by Khaled Obaid, Kuntara Pukthuanthong :: SSRN
  tl;dr: A trading model based on photos in @TheEconomist outperforms the market by 2.6% on an annual basis. /cc @tomstandage

  A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Market Sentiment From Photos https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3297930
  This paper proposes a new market-level investor sentiment index (Photo Sentiment) constructed from photos in the financial press. We apply a machine learning technique to classify a large sample of photos in The Economist based on perceived sentiment. Photo Sentiment is measured as the average probability the photos have negative sentiment minus the average probability the photos have positive sentiment. Between 1997 and 2017, Photo Sentiment is found to predict short-term return reversal, trading volume and market volatility, and explains flows between equity and money market funds. A trading strategy based on Photo Sentiment outperforms the market index by 2.6% on an annual basis while assuming less risk.

• Twitter
  RT @mommymadonna: I told my kid to shovel the snow. I checked my video cam to make sure he was doing it. This is what I see.…
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  RT @nkjemisin: ::rubs eyes:: It produces oxygen. For the planet. My God.
• Psilocybin combined with psychological support might correct pessimism biases in depression
• Twitter
  RT @AlsBoy: For a second I thought “wait where are this man’s ankles”
• Joshua Trees Destroyed in National Park During Shutdown May Take Centuries to Regrow – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @bmopitts: Just like @histoftech keeps telling us…
• 1969 & 70 – Bell Labs
  1969 & 70 – Bell Labs
  I spent a couple of years as Operations Manager at a Bell Labs data center in Oakland, CA developing what was the a state of the art database search system. One day I brought a camera to work and this was the result.
• Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying. – The New York Times
• Liquid I.V.™’s Healthy Hydration – Fueling Life’s Adventures
• Amazon open-sources Neo-AI, a framework for optimizing AI models | VentureBeat
• Neuroimaging study sheds new light on how a dose of THC changes the brain
• Spoonbill

  Spoonbill lets you see profile changes from the people you follow on Twitter.

• Entering the Modern Era of Gene Therapy | Annual Review of Medicine
• The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica | The New Yorker
• As Winter Sets In, Tiny Shrews Shrink Their Skulls and Brains – The New York Times
• Yes — a Fyre Festival LARP on Detroit’s Belle Isle is being planned | The Scene
• BuzzFeed Top Traffic Came From Quizzes Made by Teen for Free
• Lions (Panthera leo) specialising on a marine diet in the Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia | Namibian Journal of Environment
• King County Passes Temporary Ban on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure – Slog – The Stranger
• Death and disappearance: Inside the world of privatised war — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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• Study shows how LSD interferes with brain’s signalling | Science | The Guardian
• GitHub – dgageot/demoit: Live coding demos without Context Switching
  Live coding demos without Context Switching
  (from David)
• Fixing the Flawed Approach to Diversity
  In addition to underestimating the problem, leaders tend to see it in the wrong place. We break the obstacles to diversity down into four areas: recruiting, retention, advancement, and leadership commitment. Many leaders believe that the recruiting phase presents the biggest obstacles—particularly for women and racial and ethnic minorities. It is not, however, that simple. Hiring people from diverse groups is easier than successfully addressing the deep-rooted cultural and organizational issues that those groups face in their day-to-day work experience.

  And, in fact, members of diverse groups do see things differently. Because they have first-hand experience of the daily biases that keep them from staying at an organization and rising through the ranks, they see more obstacles across the entire employee life cycle: recruiting, retention, advancement, and the commitment of leaders.

  It’s easy, therefore, to see how companies can spend money on diversity initiatives that don’t generate results. The senior leaders—primarily older men—who make decisions about how much to invest in diversity and which initiatives to fund lack a clear understanding of how big the problems are or where those problems lie.

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• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory – Kindle edition by David Graeber. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
• Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? – The New York Times
• Opinion | She Wanted to Drive, So Saudi Arabia’s Ruler Imprisoned and Tortured Her – The New York Times
• All of Michigan is an ICE ‘border zone’ — here are the rights all immigrants should know | News Hits
• The Stars My Destination
• Twins get some ‘mystifying’ results when they put 5 DNA ancestry kits to the test | CBC News
• Twitter
  RT @JupiterBits: A bit of #Jupiter (@NASAJuno / @NASAJPL-@Caltech / @SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill)
• Opinion | She Wanted to Drive, So Saudi Arabia’s Ruler Imprisoned and Tortured Her – The New York Times
• Wakanda for Oscar? – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @mattblaze: What stuck with me was not so much the horrors of the camps (which she surely softened for my young ears), but of l…
• Greenland’s Melting Ice Nears a ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @MohanadElshieky: This morning, ICE agents got on my Greyhound bus that was headed from Spokane to Portland. They walked around befor…
• We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it | New Scientist
• Refrigerator Dill Pickles Recipe – Allrecipes.com
• Kubernetes, the Google-created open source cloud software, explained – Business Insider
• Twitter
  RT @Wendywoo_g: Erm. Nope. I have not seen your eggs
• Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-kills-2-wounds-2-near-penn-state-fatally-shooting-n962646)
  RT @NBCNightlyNews: Gunman kills three, wounds one near Penn State before fatally shooting himself.

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• All 5 of the Sebring shooter’s victims were women, police chief says – VICE News
• Natasha Lyonne Has a New Life. It’s Just That She Keeps Dying. – The New York Times

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• What Is a Book Critic’s Responsibility When a Work Is Rediscovered? – The New York Times
• Senator Warren Unveils Proposal to Tax Wealth of Ultra-Rich Americans | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
• Thomas Piketty on Twitter: "Elizabeth Warren’s weatlh tax proposal is an historical move. The US led the world toward progressive taxation and the compression of global inequality during the first half of the 20th century. Warren’s proposal will have a
• Shannon Stirone on Twitter: "The story is up! Last month I went to Hawaii with Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin to search for Planet Nine. This is the story of what happened at the telescope, and the challenges that come with discovery. https://t.co/UKIk
• The Secret World of Amazon’s Power Reviewers – The New York Times
• ‘The Other Two’ Is a Winning Portrait of a Gen-Z World – The Atlantic
• Matthew Hedges: The UAE Held Me as a Spy. The West Is Complicit. – The Atlantic
• Google Voice VoIP Calls Will Be Live For Everyone by Next Week – Slashdot

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• ‘We Didn’t Get Ph.D.s Just to Sit Around’: Civil Servants’ Good Will Erodes – The New York Times
• Update on Volume Snapshot Alpha for Kubernetes – Kubernetes
• Amazon Is Pushing Facial Technology That a Study Says Could Be Biased – The New York Times
• Black women entrepreneurs’ start-ups are changing Silicon Valley
• Nancy Wang Yuen on Twitter: "This sparks joy. Rita Moreno singing ‘It’s you I like’ on Mr. Rogers in 1975. Watch to the end. https://t.co/Ks8OAXkMkF"
• Diana Athill was the sharpest of wits and finest of friends | Damian Barr | Books | The Guardian
• ‘F is for Family’ intro – YouTube
• We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it | New Scientist
• A day in shutdown life: Free mac and cheese, clean closets, empty bank accounts – The Washington Post
• ‘This is pretty humiliating’: Food banks fill in for paychecks as government shutdown drags on – The Washington Post
• Google led a multimillion-dollar tech industry lobbying blitz in 2018, records show – The Washington Post
• Open offices cause your coworkers to judge you more harshly

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• Twitter
  RT @GCPcloud: Set up two-way communication between the cloud & your device with help from this step-by-step tutorial by…
• Programming Fonts – Test Drive
• Elizabeth McCracken: By the Book – The New York Times
• Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists – PEN America
• Cloud IoT step-by-step: Cloud to device communication
• Twitter
  RT @EricaJoy: What fucks with me about this is the compounding damage done to these folks’ careers & earning potential.

  Even if…

• ‘Tipping point’ risk for Arctic hotspot – BBC News
• Twitter
  RT @BjerknesBCCR: The Barents Sea may be at a tipping point, changing from #Arctic climate to an Atlantuc climate as the water gets w…
• How to Stop Rogue Gene-Editing of Human Embryos? – The New York Times
• Fundraiser for Sisters Inside Inc by Debbie Kilroy : FreeThePeople
• Twitter
  RT @SenDuckworth: When I was bleeding to death in my Black Hawk helicopter on that dusty field in Iraq, I didn’t care if the American…
• Plants can smell, now researchers know how: First steps to understanding biochemistry of how plants detect odors — ScienceDaily
• Twitter
  RT @kevinmgill: The supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101 (Abell 2029). Processed using data from Hubble –
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  RT @kevinmgill: The supergiant elliptical galaxy IC 1101 (Abell 2029). Processed using data from Hubble –
• Who will speak at Data Day Texas 2019? | Data Day Texas
• Sabarimala temple: Indian women form ‘620km human chain’ for equality – BBC News
• Twitter
  RT @holdenkarau: Austin Area Open Source Friends, I’m doing a workshop next Friday to improve people’s OSS review skills. If you’re…
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: Joint statement from the air traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants unions.

  “In our risk averse indust…

• No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime – The Atlantic
• Twitter
  RT @ekp: Fact: A set of Oracle lawyers, managers, execs, people ops, and HR business partners created, maintained, and reinf…
• Feds Also Say That Oracle Underpaid Women and Minorities | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @benhammersley: Los Angeles’ health authority just issued an alert about infections from backalley stem-cell injections.…
• ‘Green Book’ and ‘Miss Daisy’ Fuel a Racial Fantasy. Mookie Knew Better. – The New York Times
• Chart Shows Coming Death of Small-Government Conservatism
• Twitter
  RT @schemaly: 40% of American women under 30, 2x the proportion of men their age, say they’d leave America if they could. How Gen…

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• How Gender Became Our National Battlegrounds

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• The Benefits of Eating Fake Meat Go Beyond Sustainability | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @simondonner: Australia has to keep adding colours to its temperature maps. Pretty soon it’ll just be a flame emoji.
• Twitter
  RT @tomgauld: Your house is overloaded with books. What do you do?
  (my cartoon for yesterday’s @guardianreview)
• Twitter
  RT @kashanacauley: The hottest new crime is called not wanting people to die.

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