Entries from October 2019 ↓

• (31) Simplifying Model Management with MLflow – Matei Zaharia (Databricks) Corey Zumar (Databricks) – YouTube
  Last summer, Databricks launched MLflow, an open source platform to manage the machine learning lifecycle, including experiment tracking, reproducible runs and model packaging. MLflow has grown quickly since then, with over 120 contributors from dozens of companies, including major contributions from R Studio and Microsoft. It has also gained new capabilities such as automatic logging from TensorFlow and Keras, Kubernetes integrations, and a high-level Java API. In this talk, we’ll cover some of the new features that have come to MLflow, and then focus on a major upcoming feature: model management with the MLflow Model Registry. Many organizations face challenges tracking which models are available in the organization and which ones are in production. The MLflow Model Registry provides a centralized database to keep track of these models, share and describe new model versions, and deploy the latest version of a model through APIs. We’ll demonstrate how these features can simplify common ML lifecycle tasks
• The Surprising Origins and Meaning of the Phrase "You Guys" | Time
• You need a lot of luck, not just positivity, when cancer strikes | Deborah Orr | Opinion | The Guardian
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  RT @JessieNYC: If you’re interested at all in race & tech, read this whole thread. 🔥
• Award-winning columnist Deborah Orr dies aged 57 | Media | The Guardian
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  RT @Asher_Wolf: Trying to get salaried work as a journalist
• HUD officials knowingly failed ‘to comply with the law,’ stalled Puerto Rico hurricane relief funds
• Red Flags All Over for Senate Republicans
• Open Source Firmware | October 2019 | Communications of the ACM

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  RT @BBCEarth: Remember the time David Attenborough said ‘boo’ to a sloth?

  Happy #InternationalSlothDay!

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/technology/amazon-seattle-council-election.html)
  "Amazon Muscles In on Seattle Election"
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  RT @HumanoidHistory: The view from Apollo 7 on this day in 1968.
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  RT @mulegirl: This is a reverse Spotlight.
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  RT @foe_us: Huge win! Beekeepers in Canada are seeing bee populations recover as neonic pesticides are restricted!

  The US must…

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  RT @tjalamont: Eddie is one of our desert tortoises. If you don’t push the door shut all the way, he will open it and come in. Edd…
• AP Investigation: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption
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  RT @Cirincione: For months, @nytimes put stories of Hillary Clinton’s email on its front pages. The final investigative report clea…
• State Dept. Inquiry Into Clinton Emails Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information – The New York Times
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  RT @chadloder: Levchin continued, telling a story about how, in PayPal’s early days, an excellent engineering candidate was reject…

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  RT @sarahmei: So many awful things here:
  1. Peter Thiel taught a class at Stanford 🤮
  2. He brought in this guy to tell his stu…
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  RT @gregsramblings: The Google Cloud free tier has expanded a bit since I last looked. Check it out — …
• Pinboard on Twitter: "I’m going to leave off here because I’m too discouraged. I’ll repeat what I say every month to Googlers: you can shut this down, the same way employees at Microsoft did. The list of all PAC donors is in the filing. Reach out and tell
• Marxists’ Apartment A Microcosm Of Why Marxism Doesn’t Work
• 27 Maya ritual sites discovered on online map by eagle-eyed archaeologist
• There is no such thing as a good Trump voter.
• Commentary: White people should all read ‘My Time Among the Whites’ – Chicago Tribune
• Global Deforestation Is Rising. Here Are Three Lessons For Companies.
• The Cure for Toxic Positivity – Forge
• The Millions Top Ten: September 2019 – The Millions
• Donate To The Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Fund – Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Foundation Bahamas
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  RT @LettersOfNote: On this day in 1956, The Museum of Modern Art rejected Andy Warhol and told him to come and pick up his drawing.
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  RT @hotdogsladies: I, for one, am enthused to hear the president’s past cabinet and staff members obliquely express a coy critique of…
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  RT @AmberBenson: “He frequently conflates Facebook with the Internet, even though a closed, commercial system is in many ways exactl…
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  RT @paulkrugman: What a sad and terrifying article; it rings true given my limited association with the very rich. Our society has b…
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  RT @CassSunstein: A very powerful statement from Admiral William McRaven. (I was privileged to serve with him on the Defense Innovati…

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• Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century | Siva Vaidhyanathan | Opinion | The Guardian
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  RT @frippet: Excellent look at how climate change might affect people in the US and Australia, based on California’s recent powe…
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  RT @jonathanrosy: Busy news day (aren’t they all) but man did this story get buried today @RonanFarrow
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  RT @KevinCate: For the first time in a decade, a Florida Senate committee scheduled a meeting to discuss the impact of climate cha…
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  RT @HeidiStevens13: When I saw Oprah interview Michelle Obama, Oprah asked how Michelle got over feeling intimidated sitting at big tab…
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  RT @JFrankensteiner: I want a book where Val Kilmer tells micro stories that may or may not be true about celebrity encounters.
• I’ve seen California’s future, and it’s dark | The Outline
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  RT @JoyAnnReid: You really can’t overstate how unprecedented and abnormal this is. No American president has ever awarded such a co…
• George Conway: Trump Is Unfit for Office – The Atlantic
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  RT @litmar: big yikes
• After long silence, FL GOP leaders talk ‘sea level rise’ | Miami Herald
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-environment/climate-change-qatar-air-conditioning-outdoors/
  “Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors”
• “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” Is One Of The Best Sitcoms You Can Stream Right Now
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  RT @nytimes: In Opinion

  Timothy Snyder writes: Hitler and the Nazis found a simple slogan they repeated again and again to disc…

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  RT @SenatorRomney: Iran’s power position has significantly increased with Turkey wiping out our friends, the Kurds, in Syria. Because…
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  RT @ScottJCollette: Never forget that Mel Brooks hired David Lynch to direct THE ELEPHANT MAN and David Cronenberg to direct THE FLY, t…
• Can ultrasound be used to fight Alzheimer’s? | PBS NewsHour

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• Qatar, facing unbearable heat, has begun to air-condition the outdoors – Washington Post
• [GCP] Node Auto provisioner pool is missing VM service account and oauth scopes · Issue #4259 · kubeflow/kubeflow
• It’s Time to Push Tech Forward, and Rebuild What It Broke | WIRED
• Opinion | How Hitler Pioneered ‘Fake News’ – The New York Times
• Transitioning from postdoc researcher to gig-economy scientist
• “There Is Definite Hanky-Panky Going On”: The Fantastically Profitable Mystery of the Trump Chaos Trades
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  RT @EricBoehlert: this is what happens when a newsroom is afraid of its own shadow
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  RT @sadydoyle: Got to fix that Overlook elevator kids
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  RT @stephaniedk96: Who gave Louise Gluck the right
  (from the poem ‘October’)
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  RT @doctorow: Samuel Delany’s 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?
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• Charles Finch on How He Writes Charles Lenox Mysteries
• Where Agatha Christie Dreamed Up Murder | Travel | Smithsonian
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  RT @JayInslee: “There is no middle road on the climate crisis. We will either address the problem meaningfully and in accordance w…
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  RT @azbrodsky: Never speak ill of the dead, like Harold Bloom, who told my American lit seminar that we should feel free to report…
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  RT @dem8z: May we eventually get to the point when we won’t feel compelled to mention that an innocent black person, slaughter…
• Samuel Delany’s 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male? / Boing Boing
• The Stars My Destination — kaninchenzero: gwillow: samueldelany: Samuel…
• Mindfulness Isn’t Much Harder than Mindlessness
• Elizabeth Warren faced sexism and shed a husband teaching law at University of Houston – The Washington Post
• GitHub – google/jax: Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
  JAX is Autograd and XLA, brought together for high-performance machine learning research.

  With its updated version of Autograd, JAX can automatically differentiate native Python and NumPy functions. It can differentiate through loops, branches, recursion, and closures, and it can take derivatives of derivatives of derivatives. It supports reverse-mode differentiation (a.k.a. backpropagation) via grad as well as forward-mode differentiation, and the two can be composed arbitrarily to any order.

  What’s new is that JAX uses XLA to compile and run your NumPy programs on GPUs and TPUs. Compilation happens under the hood by default, with library calls getting just-in-time compiled and executed. But JAX also lets you just-in-time compile your own Python functions into XLA-optimized kernels using a one-function API, jit. Compilation and automatic differentiation can be composed arbitrarily, so you can express sophisticated algorithms and get maximal performance without leaving Python.

  Dig a little deeper, and you’ll see that JAX is really an extensible system for composable function transformations. Both grad and jit are instances of such transformations. Another is vmap for automatic vectorization, with more to come.

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• RFC: TFX Generic Container Component Execution by hongye-sun · Pull Request #156 · tensorflow/community
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  RT @chris_power: Grace Paley and Donald Barthelme at Unterberg, NYC in 1971, shortly before embarking on their infamous killing spre…

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  RT @shannonrwatts: BREAKING: In a video shown at Trump’s resort to his supporters, Trump pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and…
• Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort – The New York Times
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  RT @sfchronicle: California will phase out its use of private prisons under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. It also makes Califo…
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  RT @EmojiMashupFace: 👩‍💻 Woman Technologist + 👿 Angry Face With Horns

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• Acing the DevRel Interview
  RT @the_thagomizer: In honor of 100 interviews at Google, my tips for Acing the DevRel Interview
• Discovery of Brain Protein Could Lead to New Chronic Pain Treatments
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  RT @business: Half of all coral reefs are dead because of climate change
• Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
  RT @business: Half of all coral reefs are dead because of climate change
• Fort Worth Police Kill Woman Standing Insider Her Own Home | Law & Crime
  RT @lawcrimenews: Fort Worth Police Shoot and Kill Black Woman Standing Inside Her Own Home:
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  RT @lawcrimenews: Fort Worth Police Shoot and Kill Black Woman Standing Inside Her Own Home:
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  RT @lizthegrey: Paid another $9 million to leave. OMG I can’t even
• Whitefriars Crypt – London, England – Atlas Obscura

  Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London’s medieval Whitefriars Monastery

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  RT @TheMediaTweets: Inside the offices of every single newspaper, Friday night: “I’ve got it! How about ‘Reality Czech’?”

  Inside the o…

• GitHub – GoogleCloudPlatform/devrel-services

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  RT @SteveStuWill: What a great invention!
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  RT @jmulich: In the span of a few months HK has been transformed into a police state. The shadow of authoritarianism has always…
• In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis | Silicon Valley | The Guardian
• How to Predict the Onset of Diabetes Using Feature Selection and Correlation Matrix
• Use Multitasking on your iPad – Apple Support
• Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill and a Chilling Cover-up at NBC
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  RT @Haleaziz: The jump is even more dramatic when look backing at the numbers on Sep. 25, when just over 400 family members were…
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  RT @Haleaziz: The number families in ICE detention jumped in just a matter of a week, according to statistics posted on the ICE w…
• Flesh-eating ulcer’s spread to new part of Australia worries infectious disease experts | Science | The Guardian
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/nyregion/homeless-murders-nyc-hakki-akdeniz.html)
  RT @nycsouthpaw: you gotta read this
• 9 Best Couches for Cat Owners – Cat-Resistant Furniture
• Bra Styles for Every Size & Shape | Wacoal
• Is the Anthropocene an Epoch After All? – The Atlantic
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  RT @ChrisGNBCBoston: Flying sea foam at Nantasket Beach! Life long resident of 71 years has never seen anything like this in his life.…

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  RT @NewYorker: There’s a long history of American politicians who have lied about their careers and their achievements. Elizabeth…
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  RT @ethanbrown72: At least a half-dozen women said they were raped and trafficked to male inmates at the jail in Jefferson Davis Pari…
• Learning a unified embedding for visual search at Pinterest – the morning paper
• Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers | Environment | The Guardian
  Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
• Elizabeth Warren Isn’t Inflating Her Résumé—If Anything, She’s Downplaying It | The New Yorker
• For Cancer Patients, The Remarkable Benefits Of Community – Scientific American
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  RT @scrueggs: Me, opening my eyes to see I have two minutes left before my alarm clock goes off:
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  RT @SarahLerner: There were 43 *new* claims of sexual misconduct against the president of the United States yesterday, and it feels…
• ‘A troubling choice’: authors criticise Peter Handke’s controversial Nobel win | Books | The Guardian
  RT @harikunzru: I’m not alone in questioning the award of the Nobel to Handke
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  RT @mmfa: News broke yesterday that *forty-three* new women came forward to describe assault and harassment by Trump. Accordi…
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  RT @pronounced_ing: I mean. Anyone who still insists that women didn’t get fired for being pregnant–after hearing people share how it…

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