- The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All — WIRED
By digging out signals hidden within the brain’s electrical chatter, scientists are getting new insights into sleep, aging, and more.
- (400) https://twitter.com/FranklyHart/status/1362795444083056641/video/1
RT @JennyJohnsonHi5: Happy Saturday! Here’s a bird playing peek-a-boo!
- Opinion | The Life and Death of a Woman-Hater
Rush Limbaugh made the G.O.P. the party of misogyny.
- “It’s Terrifying, It’s Almost Crippling": Texas Jails and Prisons Are Freezing Over
RT @msjpauly: Some interviews just stay with you for a long time. I think this one, with a mom whose husband has been freezing inside a Texas prison this week, will be one of them for me.
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RT @msjpauly: Some interviews just stay with you for a long time. I think this one, with a mom whose husband has been freezing inside a Texas prison this week, will be one of them for me.
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RT @Lucent508: Beautiful mature Great Blue Heron is at The Loch in Central Park now. 😍
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RT @abenanav: When asked about fears of automation in 1969, Arthur C. Clarke famously said that we shouldn’t worry about automation: "the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." I have never seen his answer quoted in full.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1363034891173027844/photo/1
RT @Noahpinion: An American story.
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- 'I can't keep doing this': gig workers say pay has fallen after California's Prop 22 | California | The Guardian
RT @adamconover: Prop 22’s ad blitz claimed that it would raise driver wages. Now that it passed, drivers report that wages and tips have fallen well below minimum wage (BEFORE expenses), and that Uber and others are denying them the health care benefits they promised.
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RT @mjg59: This is infuriating. This is not what security policies exist to protect against. Using them as an excuse to fire someone who believed they were doing the right thing just encourages people to view security as an adversary.
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RT @Reuters: ‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
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RT @Reuters: ‘Something we’ve never seen’ – Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing
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RT @RetroNewsNow: 📺DEBUT: ‘Columbo’ starring Peter Falk premiered as a TV movie 53 years ago, February 20, 1968, on NBC
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RT @_danilo: Preview the climate crisis if we don’t get proactive. Infrastructure fails in a cascade:
First we lose power, so no heat.
Then water systems can’t stay running, so they freeze and burst.
Without water, we don’t have the tools to fight fires when they erupt.
Things fall apart.
- New Orleans paramedics called to possible cardiac arrest, find life-sized Bernie Sanders figure | Entertainment/Life | nola.com
- Early Stopping in HuggingFace – Examples | huggingface – Weights & Biases
- (400) https://twitter.com/fi_lor/status/1363035873026138116/photo/1
RT @fi_lor: Daily Mail (5th December 2000)
- Acting NASA chief says 2024 Moon landing no longer a “realistic” target | Ars Technica
RT @DannySkarka: Before you blame Biden for cancelling Moon missions: "The 2024 lunar landing goal may no longer be a realistic target due to the last TWO YEARS of appropriations, which did not provide enough funding to make 2024 achievable,"
- (400) https://twitter.com/dmetaxak/status/1362856231212212224/photo/1
RT @dmetaxak: Google recently added a feature allowing users to search for "Black-owned businesses near you". They’re advertising it all over the place (see below).
I’ve also already started hearing from Black-owned businesses I follow that they’re seeing an influx of racist fake reviews…
- Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
RT @DavidLKeating: Excellent story by @ashleevance with spot on quote from @jeremyphoward. Some of the heroes of the pandemic are those with no formal training. Others busted silos. via @BW
- (400) https://twitter.com/mrpatto/status/1362844477157560320
RT @fchollet: Interesting analysis by @mhmazur. Human work is driven by clear goals and is informed by task-specific context. A model that is optimized for generating plausible-sounding text, ignoring goals and context, virtually never produces any useful answer (unless by random chance).
- (400) https://twitter.com/themeredith/status/1362804963382976518/photo/1
RT @themeredith: Boy have I got news for both of these people
- Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
- I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine
I wasn’t proud of it, and neither were my coworkers. But that’s life in today’s China. During livestreaming, each audio clip would be automatically transcribed, compared with a long list of sensitive words, dates, names, as well as NLP models. Algorithms would then analyze whether the content was risky enough to require individual monitoring.https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine
- A Second AI Researcher Says She Was Fired by Google | WIRED
RT @WIRED: For the second time in three months, Google has fired a prominent woman researcher on ethics in artificial intelligence. Following Timnit Gebru’s departure in December, Margaret Mitchell says she has been fired from the company’s AI lab, Google Brain
- Interview with Ryan Dahl, Node.js & Deno creator by Evrone
In an interview with Evrone, Ryan Dahl speaks about the main challenges in Deno, the future of JavaScript and TypeScript, and tells how he would have changed his approach to Node.js if he could travel back in time.
- Covid-19 Mutual Aid – Seattle: Community Report, January 2021 – COVID-19 Mutual Aid Seattle
- Fundraiser for M Mork by Rosario Lopez : COVID-19 Survival Fund for the People
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- COVID-19 projections for Washington state
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