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October 31st, 2020 — Uncategorized
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October 29th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air | Society | EL PAÍS in English
RT @AstroKatie: This article has some fantastic illustrations of the major risks for coronavirus transmission.
Makes clear why I hesitate to even briefly enter any closed spaces with other people, always pay attention to ventilation, & stay out if everyone isn’t masked.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)
RT @maddow: "Trailing in the polls, Trump’s campaign is pursuing a strategy to effectively suppress the vote in Pennsylvania, moving to limit the counting of absentee votes, to limit when ballots can be accepted, and intimidating Pennsylvanians trying to vote early."
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html?referringSource=articleShare)
RT @EricLiptonNYT: Trump’s campaign in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania is pursuing multi pronged strategy: suppress mail-in votes, stop counting of absentee votes before Election Day and intimidating Pennsylvanians trying to vote early @NYTnickc @dannyhakim
- Aerosol transmission of Covid-19: A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air | Society | EL PAÍS in English
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RT @PADems: 🚨 BREAKING: Please share this information widely with voters in BUTLER COUNTY. 🚨
Please call 1-833-PA-VOTES for additional support.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/climate/trump-election-climate-noaa.html?smid=tw-share)
RT @JaneLubchenco: Sad, sad day for @NOAA, the U.S. and the world: As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science @LFFriedman @nytimes #ClimateChange
- Untitled (https://votesaveamerica.com/)
RT @jonfavs: Friendly reminder: the Supreme Court can’t invalidate your late-arriving ballot if you drop it off in person before Election Day!
to find out where your nearest location is
- This Is the Coronavirus Election – The Atlantic
RT @edyong209: 🚨I wrote about the upcoming election, and what the stakes are in terms of the pandemic.
The piece is short, and its gist is simple: Next week, Americans will choose whether to try and bring COVID-19 under control.
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RT @lizthegrey: It’s not just Senators doing this, the US DoD also is going after its critics inside Silicon Valley, using its existing contracts as leverage to get individual engineers, by name, fired for their political speech.
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RT @AaronRHanlon: Solid and astonishing roundup in the @nytimes morning briefing of the many GOP efforts underway explicitly to make it harder for people to vote in this election. Not the GOP campaigning for its issues and candidates, but trying to stop people from voting altogether.
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RT @soledadobrien: Come on, guys. A win for voters.
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RT @JamesGleick: Burning everything on the way out.
- I Know Where I'm Going!, (1945) – Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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RT @jacobsoboroff: This is the way Miles Taylor talked about family separation LAST WEEK ("It’s horrible. But…") when news broke parents of 545 separated kids still cannot be located. He later deleted the tweet.
- NXIVM sex cult leader to serve 120 years, and how he conned thousands
- Untitled (https://www.change.org/p/university-of-pennsylvania-penn-administration-make-classes-optional-on-election-day?redirect=false)
RT @ASlavitt: Action: @Penn in Philadelphia has 40,000 employees and has not closed operations or given employees Election Day off.
4000 votes makes the difference. This is 40,000 people. Sign the petition to get that to change. RT if willing.
- A Timeline of the Nxivm Sex Cult Case – The New York Times
- A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials
RT @SchoofsFeed: Google execs misled their own employees when they said a former Trump official — now revealed as Anonymous — who joined the company was “not involved in the family separation policy,” emails obtained under FOIA reveal.
@RMac18 @JasonLeopold @BuzzFeedNEws
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/10/28/trump-tongass-national-forest-alaska/
RT @brady_dennis: BREAKING: Trump is exempting Alaska’s entire Tongass National Forest from the roadless rule, making more than 9.3 million acres eligible for logging and other development. It is one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of his presidency. By @eilperin
- Escaping NXIVM | CBC News
- ‘Seduced’ Will Make You Pissed Off At How ‘The Vow’ Underplayed Keith Raniere’s Menace | Decider
- More than The Vow, Seduced offers a damning look at the NXIVM cult
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RT @GreatDismal: Straight up evil.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/us/politics/women-voters-biden-pennsylvania.html)
RT @joshchafetz: How do you write a story accompanied by this photo and not mention that sign?
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RT @joshchafetz: How do you write a story accompanied by this photo and not mention that sign?
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RT @AppleNews: Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it. (via @Nikki_Lew and @avivash for @MarshallProj)
- Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it.
RT @AppleNews: Most people in jail can vote. Many of them don’t know it. (via @Nikki_Lew and @avivash for @MarshallProj)
- Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself | The New Yorker
- Willie Nelson & Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O Cover "Under Pressure": Listen – Stereogum
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October 28th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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October 27th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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October 26th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- No, Mouthwash Will Not Save You From the Coronavirus – The New York Times
- Opinion | How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Conspiracy Theories – The New York Times
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RT @COVID19Tracking: Today, the U.S. set a new record for new cases averaged over a 7-day period: 68,954. The previous high was 66,844, set on July 23.
- Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs – The Salt Lake Tribune
RT @maddow: This is horrifying.
“Utah’s hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs”
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RT @pkedrosky: "49 percent of COVID cases among nursing home
residents are attributable to staff movement between facilities"
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RT @W7VOA: A fire was set inside an #Election2020 ballot dropbox outside Boston Public Library early Sunday morning, according to officials.
- Solar Is Cheapest Energy: Renewable Energy vs. Fossil Fuels Cost
RT @crampell: It’s Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
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RT @debcha: A year ago today.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/10/25/923bb382-16d5-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html
RT @maddow: "… an extraordinary admission Sunday from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the administration had effectively given up on trying to slow the virus’s spread."
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RT @RansomDracalis: You know what democracy looks like in Canada?
A card is sent to my house to tell me I’ve been automatically registered to vote, and that the poll is within walking distance. I forget to bring the card but can vote anyway. It takes 3 minutes.
You’re looking at voter suppression.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/books/best-agatha-christie-books-murder-mystery.html?0p19G=6214)
RT @TinaJordanNYT: Recently, on a night when I couldn’t sleep (seriously, who sleeps any more?), I picked up "Cat Among the Pigeons" again.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-party.html?smid=tw-share)
RT @michikokakutani: NYT Editorial Board: “RIP, GOP”:
Trump has accelerated his party’s demise “leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals”
- Mary Trump: Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle. Let them tell voters. – The Washington Post
- Opinion | The Republican Party After Trump – The New York Times
- The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google's Bug-Hunting Badass | WIRED
- There's No Turning Back on AI in the Military | WIRED
- Wellington water advocates are demanding Nestlé give back its wells – OBSERVER
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October 25th, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Doomsday prepping for less crazy folk
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RT @OliviaMesser: Sometimes when I interview COVID experts, they stick to the numbers and then the call ends with professional send-offs. Today, it’s been—much like it was in the beginning—infused with these humane asides like, "You should be prepared for how bad it’s going to get."
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RT @alexisgoldstein: Trump supporters in PA drove Jeeps and Semis (with Trump flags) around an early voting location, honking so loudly the officials couldn’t given instructions to the voters in line:
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RT @zaibatsu: Little known fact
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October 24th, 2020 — Uncategorized
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RT @DrLeanaWen: We’ve officially surpassed the previous high for total number of daily new #covid19 infections. Hospitalizations are up 40% in the last month. There are virus hotspots all over the country. This is NOT “rounding the corner”—unless it’s into a firestorm of viral spread.
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RT @Laura_R_Prieto: Why are 80% of those who lost jobs in Aug/Sept women? Because women still assume the individual responsibility for child care.
Tiny 🧵 1/3
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RT @drmistercody:
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RT @drmistercody:
- Detention Facilities For Immigrants Fast-Tracked For Deportation Were Rife With Problems
RT @Haleaziz: NEW: Two controversial border programs were rife with issues, including families forced to remain in custody longer than appropriate, girls stuck in the same detention space w/ unrelated men, & toilets that had limited privacy, per leaked draft IG report.
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RT @CharlesMBlow: Wow…
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RT @michikokakutani: Arendt (cont.)
once in office & confronting reality, the Leader often finds that
“propaganda and organization no longer suffice to assert that the impossible is possible, that the incredible is true, that an insane consistency rules the world…”
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RT @Amy_Siskind: Whatever happened to McConnell, happened recently. In photos on 10/15, his hands look normal. On 10/20 he tried to hide his hands in his pockets for most photos, and the photos that show his hands show bandages on both and deep bruising of some kind.
- Twitter
RT @Pinboard: On this date in 2016, @FiveThirtyEight gave Hillary Clinton an 86% chance of victory (compare to 87% for Biden now). The key lesson is that everything is highly correlated across states, and that anyone can predict the weather if they can change the forecast when the rain starts
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RT @BeschlossDC: About twenty thousand women marched for voting rights today 1915 on Fifth Avenue, New York: #AP
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RT @JeremyKonyndyk: “There won’t be any new national policy action” is undeniably true (til January, at least), and is also the scariest part of this tweet.
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RT @textfiles: Did you know the Internet Archive is watching every second of television news, tracking word clouds, and producing reports? Now you do.
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RT @bibliogrrl: Jesus fucking CHRIST
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RT @moodvintage: Anton Chekhov photographed by his brother Alexander in 1891.
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RT @annehelen: I really recommend following this account. Every post is deeply sad, but it’s a sadness that matters — and will help steel your resolve in continuing to make hard, lonely decisions
- Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting – WSJ
RT @ProfessorShaw: Such an outrageous move by Facebook, even in a climate where our threshhold for outrage is getting to be pretty high
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RT @marginoferror: Thread. Voter registration is a strategy to stop people from voting.
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RT @LibyaLiberty: *stares*
- Why Won't My Friend Text Me Back?
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October 23rd, 2020 — Uncategorized
- Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-campaign-pizzagate-hunter-biden-n1244331)
RT @BrandyZadrozny: Inside the campaign to ‘Pizzagate’ Hunter Biden.
New from @oneunderscore__ and me.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-order-federal-civil-service/2020/10/22/c73783f0-1481-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html?tid=ss_tw
RT @anneapplebaum: Nothing said at the debate matters more than this: If Trump politicizes the civil service, American government is finished. Someone’s unqualified second cousin will be making important decisions about water quality or food safety instead of a scientist.
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RT @timoreilly: And those closed locations are not evenly distributed…
- [2010.08895] Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations
The classical development of neural networks has primarily focused on learning mappings between finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Recently, this has been generalized to neural operators that learn mappings between function spaces. For partial differential equations (PDEs), neural operators directly learn the mapping from any functional parametric dependence to the solution. Thus, they learn an entire family of PDEs, in contrast to classical methods which solve one instance of the equation. In this work, we formulate a new neural operator by parameterizing the integral kernel directly in Fourier space, allowing for an expressive and efficient architecture. We perform experiments on Burgers’ equation, Darcy flow, and the Navier-Stokes equation (including the turbulent regime). Our Fourier neural operator shows state-of-the-art performance compared to existing neural network methodologies and it is up to three orders of magnitude faster compared to traditional PDE solvers.
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RT @DickKingSmith: An innocent pumpkin couple look on in horror, mouths agape and transfixed, as their only son is devoured in front of them.
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RT @DarwinBondGraha: Current situation with the fire in Oakland on the 580 shoulder at 35th Ave. High winds are making it very hard for firefighters to put out. Lots of homes nearby.
- Untitled (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/22/why-optimism-bias-could-be-unhelpful-in-a-pandemic-say-psychologists.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar)
RT @_karengilchrist: "Optimism bias" could be putting ourselves and others at risk, experts say
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RT @downsanddirty: Best leggings review I’ve ever seen
- Why optimism bias could be unhelpful in a pandemic, say psychologists
- UCSF-led researchers dig deep into coronavirus structure, identify drugs that could diminish COVID effects – SFChronicle.com
- ‘Ham on Rye’ Review: Coming of Age, With Existential Unease – The New York Times
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html)
RT @robertjdenault: BREAKING: Trump Tax Records show a secretly held bank account in China. The account did not show up on Trump’s public financial disclosures, where he must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names.
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RT @glennkirschner2: This was unconstitutional. McConnell rewrote Article II, Section 2’s advice & consent clause, thereby waiving the Senate’s opportunity to advise/consent. Garland should have joined the Supreme Court, forcing McConnell to sue/prove he has the authority to rewrite the Constitution.
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesbits)
RT @nytimestech: Law enforcement agencies have used facial recognition to identify criminals. But now activists are turning the process around and developing tools that can unmask officers in cases of misconduct.
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RT @kweinmeister: The parameters you choose for your ML model make a difference. This blog post shows how to include searching for those parameters in your ML pipeline.
- Machine Learning Design Patterns [Book]
RT @lak_gcp: DMs indicate folks are starting to receive the book! Tag me, @SRobTweets if you (a) post selfie with the book? (b) write a review of the book. Be the first!!! Also, you can buy directly from @OReillyMedia and it’s a bit less expensive than Amazon.
- Rules of Machine Learning: | ML Universal Guides | Google Developers
- Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record | World news | The Guardian
- Google AI Tech Will Be Used for Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows
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RT @jbouie: people really don’t appreciate what a radical revision of the structure of government mcconnell’s “confirmation only when the same party controls the presidency and the senate” rule is!
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October 22nd, 2020 — Uncategorized
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