Entries from March 2021 ↓

• 🛰️ See A Satellite Tonight 🛰️
  🛰️ Find out how to see satellites in the night sky, no telescope required.

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• Baking with maltesers, marmite and Cloud AI | Google Cloud Blog
  Sara
• This AI Can Generate Convincing Text—and Anyone Can Use It
  The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3, the well-known language program from OpenAI.
• (400) https://twitter.com/tunguz/status/1376614536099209217
  RT @gusthema: This is an interesting development.

  A team managed to create a GPT3-ish model (smaller than the original) and then open sourced it.

  This has multiple impacts:
  – On openAI’s business model 💸💸
  – On text generation open for all 😱
  – the new dataset used (the pile) 👍🏽

• Mystics and CLOWNS | Vanity Fair | April 2021
  The Capitol riot brimmed with fascist symbols—sound and fury signifying everything
• This AI Can Generate Convincing Text—and Anyone Can Use It | WIRED
• OpenAI’s text-generating system GPT-3 is now spewing out 4.5 billion words a day – The Verge
• Announcing the Deno Company | Deno Blog

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• Would the Pandemic Stop Paul Theroux From Traveling?
  No. Of course not.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/fniephaus/status/1375783167945236480/photo/1
  RT @fniephaus: Excited to see that one of my ideas for @GoogleColab has made it into prod! The new status bar lets you see exactly what the kernel is doing at run-time. A little green arrow shows the current line of code. Should also work when collaborating with others on the same notebook!
• (400) https://twitter.com/HaroldSnepsts1/status/1375827969667633155/photo/1
  RT @HaroldSnepsts1: Ripple effects in the space/time continuum, the simulation’s buffer is full
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/27/georgia-voter-suppression-bill-michelle-au/
  RT @AuforGA: My Op-Ed in the @washingtonpost today.

  “This discussion lasted hours, a passionate chorus taking a last stand to defend foundational democratic principles. But what struck me the most was the Republicans’ silence."

• (400) https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1375346678518194177/video/1
  RT @buitengebieden_: Bear taking a bath in someone’s backyard jacuzzi..
• How to recognize bird sounds. – The Planet
  🐦

  This is how you can easily recognize bird sounds. 😊

  #birds #nature #wildlife #animals

  ➡️

• (400) https://twitter.com/NatGeo/status/1375511642864189440
  RT @SheldrickTrust: Reclassification recognises the devasting impact poaching and habitat loss is having on forest & savanna elephants. It must now bring greater investment in anti-poaching & protections of habitats too.

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• Untitled (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/both-african-elephant-species-are-now-endangered-one-critically?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20210325animals-elephantsendangered::rid=&sf244271816=1)
  RT @NatGeo: The two main African elephant species are endangered and critically endangered, according to their first-ever evaluation by IUCN
• Good Grief Festival | 27-28 March 2021
• Amazon’s PR Flacks Are Starting to Sweat
  With Bernie Sanders on his way to Bessemer, Alabama to support warehouse workers voting on a union, and the company facing increasingly negative press over working conditions that include drivers being forced to urinate in bottles, Amazon’s PR operation is getting defensive.
• Both African elephant species are now endangered, one critically
• Overview of MLOps
  Building a machine learning model is great, but to provide real business value, it must be made useful and maintained to remain useful over time. Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), overviewed here, is a rapidly growing space that encompasses everything required to deploy a machine learning model into production, and is…
• How Jane Fonda Became the Most Radical Woman in Hollywood. Again.
• The Essential Larry McMurtry
  The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter explored the myths and legacies of the West in his work.
• Adam Serwer 🍝 on Twitter
  Our actual border crisis is that America keeps trying to solve its immigration problems with brute force, which does not work, fueling demands for more brute force. The result is a sprawling, cruel system that generates profits but no solutions. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/which-border-crisis/618420/
• (400) https://twitter.com/UrbanFoxxxx/status/1375031261308289036/photo/1
  RT @UrbanFoxxxx: Since the Suez Canal is in the news atm, a reminder of this 1860s plan for a colossal statue to be erected at its entryway. Eventually there was no money left and the plan was scrapped. The designer was Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi — he recycled his design as the Statue of Liberty
• Untitled (https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-wrong-filibuster-fact-racist-n1262117)
  RT @KeishaBlain: Please check out my latest piece. @MSNBCDaily @MSNBC

  “Even a brief examination of U.S. #history reveals that it is impossible to separate the filibuster from the history of #racism and white supremacy.”

• “I’m Afraid to Open Twitter”: Next-Level Harassment of Female Journalists Is Putting News Outlets to the Test
  Newsrooms that once preached “don’t feed the trolls” are being forced to grapple with a daily deluge of smears. “Even the most open-minded media organizations are still run by men who don’t fundamentally understand the misogynistic nature of these attacks,” says one reporter.
• (400) https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1375466874650165253/photo/1
  RT @wapodavenport: Great satellite image of the stuck container ship in the Suez canal from this morning. Image: @Maxar
• Misogyny Fuels Violence Against Women. Should It Be a Hate Crime?
  Experts say the everyday harassment women have learned to put up with —€” the catcalling and lewd gestures —€” connects directly with more serious abuses.
• (400) https://twitter.com/k_g_andersen/status/1375292808278372358
  RT @DrZoeHyde: By failing to adequately suppress transmission, and by failing to ensure the developing world gets fair access to vaccines, we are scoring serious own goals in our fight against COVID-19.
• First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
  RT @UnlikelyWorlds: The case of the plant pest and the stolen gene.
• First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified
  Discovery that a whitefly uses a stolen plant gene to elude its host’s defences may offer a route to new pest-control strategies.

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• Opinion | I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement
  The harrowing injustice I suffered as a boy should never happen to another child in this country.
• Washington state looks to legalize microkitchens
• (400) https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1375097780478177287/photo/1
  RT @rabihalameddine: Don’t be strangled by the most muscular ruffian in the metropolis.
• A tarnished silver screen – How a racist film helped the Klu Klux Klan grow for generations | Graphic detail | The Economist
  RT @gelliottmorris: #NEW A study of movie theater showings of the racist film Birth of a Nation shows that lynchings rose 5x in the places it was shown, while KKK activity shot up for generations after. Our piece on @ProfDesmondAng’s paper. A long legacy of violent hate.
• LEGO IDEAS – Women of Computing
• HAD :: Questions I’ve Asked My Boyfriend While Writing
• (400) https://twitter.com/allontheline/status/1374739881176535041
  RT @BarackObama: Let’s be clear: This is a deliberate attempt to undermine our democracy by making it harder to vote. That’s why passing the For the People Act is so important, and why every one of us needs to keep up the fight. Our future depends on it.
• Walter Isaacson’s New Book Celebrates Three Notable Women
  “The Code Breaker” is about a world-changing scientist and dedicated to two legends of the publishing industry.

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• No convincing evidence outgroups are denied uniquely human characteristics: Distinguishing intergroup preference from trait-based dehumanization – ScienceDirect
• Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid — Bloomberg Businessweek
  The antiviral drug molnupiravir, still in clinical trials, would give doctors an important new treatment and a weapon against coronaviruses and future pandemics
• 'News of the World' Unsuccessfully Tries to Redeem the Western at Its Most Harmful
  The white supremacist fantasy to civilize the West is exactly the idea that shapes the film’s narrative itself.
• "Thou Shalt Not": A 1940 Photo Satirically Mocks Every Vice & Sin Censored by the Hays Movie Censorship Code | Open Culture
• 🚨 The mess at Medium
  14 current and former staffers on what went wrong
• (400) https://twitter.com/pilla_talk/status/1374732473347760134
  RT @mPinoe: Standing firmly with my Trans family, don’t even try it. 🏳️‍⚧️
• (400) https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/1374503951312199682/photo/1
  RT @JRehling: Ted Cruz calls gun regulation :ridiculous theater."

  Here are the top 10 receipients of NRA/gun money in the 2018 election cycle, the last time Ted was up for reelection.

  Ridiculous theater is Ted Cruz pretending like the NRA didn’t buy him like a possession for $309,021.

• Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia – Scientific American Blog Network
• (400) https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1374587927536230405
  RT @brookejarvis: And here I worried for nothing

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• Coleridge Initiative – Show US the Data | Kaggle
  RT @benhamner: New NLP @kaggle competition! Identify datasets mentioned in the main text of scientific publications.

  Important problem: data forms core of scientific discovery, yet there’s not the same robust culture around publishing and citing data as around articles

• (400) https://twitter.com/senatorrounds/status/1374118128272150538
  RT @KevinMKruse: The Dakota territory was cut in half and admitted as two states, as part of a larger scheme by Republicans to add six new states over a nine month period in 1889-1890 and thereby pack the Senate with Republicans … like you.
• (400) https://twitter.com/debjshaw/status/1374145689790390275/photo/1
  RT @debjshaw: Found this when I took my beach walk. LOL
• A full statement of the trial and acquittal of Aaron Burr, esq. : containing, all the proceedings and debates that took place before the federal court at Frankfort, Kentucky, November 25, 1806 : Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836, defendant : Free Download, Borrow, a
  RT @textfiles: When you’re using a $100,000 (in today’s dollars) IOU from Aaron Burr as a bookmark in a book about Burr’s trial.

  is the book.

• (400) https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1374460695769612293
  RT @textfiles: When you’re using a $100,000 (in today’s dollars) IOU from Aaron Burr as a bookmark in a book about Burr’s trial.

  is the book.

• Introducing Databricks on Google Cloud – Now in Public Preview – The Databricks Blog
• (400) https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1374189790623629313
  RT @bayoubabineaux: boulder: white man
  orlando: white man
  parkland: white man
  las vegas: white man
  aurora, co: white man
  sandy hook: white man
  waffle house: white man
  san bernardino: white man
  midland/odessa: white man
  poway synagogue: white man
  sutherland springs: white man
  tols: white man
• (400) https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1374393964082589702/photo/1
  RT @HamelHusain: A conversation that makes me cringe as a DS the most:

  "Can you pull the usage numbers on this [half-baked] new product so I can decide whether or not to de-prioritize it?"

• (400) https://twitter.com/chowleen/status/1374205913293320195/photo/1
  RT @chowleen: Resharing this poem by Teju Cole yet again, yet again, yet again.

  "I think of others, alive today, soon to die /
  (who knows when or whom, maybe you or me)"

  -@tejucole, "Live Update"
  #everynightapoem

• (400) https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1374393037619523597/photo/1
  RT @BarackObama: A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country. It’s time for leaders everywhere to listen to the American people when they say enough is enough.
• Davlan/xlm-roberta-large-masakhaner · Hugging Face
  RT @huggingface: @MasakhaneNLP keeps doing such amazing work and being an example of how to build NLP resources with and for your community (something we really appreciate at 🤗)

  We’ll be sure to add the dataset soon, meanwhile, you can try their fantastic model here:

• (400) https://twitter.com/MasakhaneNLP/status/1374300893936504832
  RT @huggingface: @MasakhaneNLP keeps doing such amazing work and being an example of how to build NLP resources with and for your community (something we really appreciate at 🤗)

  We’ll be sure to add the dataset soon, meanwhile, you can try their fantastic model here:

• (400) https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1374164252336951296
  RT @alienelf: This work is an ASTOUNDING collaboration led by @KreutzerJulia , involving participants from around the world from @MasakhaneNLP @huggingface @GoogleResearch and more! 🌍💪💕 1/n
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• Delete idle Compute Engine instances automatically
• White House prepares $3 trillion infrastructure bill with universal pre-k, climate measures – The Washington Post
• (400) https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1373994600822620161
  RT @brianklaas: Half a million people were unavailable for further comment
• In Praise of Scientists: Discovery, Ethics and Humanism in Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Code Breaker’ – Policy Magazine
• Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut every day this year — if you've been vaccinated – CBS News
  RT @petridishes: i thought the wait for vaccines was cruel but this is even cruller
• Who Is GigaChad: Meme, Digital Creation or Russian Model?
• Untitled (https://www.wonkette.com/q-a-with-ken-layne-on-his-book-dignity)
  RT @hhavrilesky: And here we have @KenLayne predicting the future accurately way back in 2011:
• (400) https://twitter.com/hhavrilesky/status/1374064418804264963/photo/1
  RT @hhavrilesky: And here we have @KenLayne predicting the future accurately way back in 2011:
• (400) https://twitter.com/lmlauramarsh/status/1373970371154739202
  RT @colindickey: This is such a good review
• First Covid, Then Psychosis: ‘The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Ever Experienced’
  Like a small number of Covid survivors with no previous mental illness, Ivan Agerton developed psychotic symptoms weeks after his coronavirus infection.

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• Report on COVID-related philanthropy credits MacKenzie Scott with powering 25% of U.S. giving – GeekWire
• My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley
• The Revolt Against the 30% Mafia. When did Big Tech gatekeepers from… | by Moe Tkacik | Mar, 2021 | Marker
• Video: ‘We’ve Lost the Line!’: Radio Traffic Reveals Police Under Siege at Capitol
• (400) https://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano/status/1373787472493170695/video/1
  RT @AnthonyQuintano: WOW! FPV drone footage at the volcanic eruption in Fagradalsfjall Iceland. Definitely watch to the end.
• (400) https://twitter.com/Andrew_Ward7/status/1373038432616910852/photo/1
  RT @Andrew_Ward7: My colleagues and I having endorsed each other’s skills on LinkedIn.
• The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse | WIRED
• To Really Understand Agatha Christie, You Need to Know About Poisons ‹ CrimeReads
• Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
  if you’re a boss, read this. if you’re a worker, read this. wow

  insightful. helpful. incredibly timely. @TheAtlantic⁩ ⁦@olgakhazan⁩ #burnout

• The Celebration Over, Deb Haaland Now Faces A Long To-Do List At Interior : NPR
  RT @NPR: "This moment is profound when we consider the fact that a former Secretary of the Interior once proclaimed his goal to, quote, civilize or exterminate us," Interior Sec. Deb Haaland said. "I’m a living testament to the failure of that horrific ideology."
• HEY
  Email at its best, new from Basecamp, coming soon.
• Svalbard globale frøhvelv: Slik satte Norge sitt omdømme pÃ¥ spill – og verdensarven i fare – Klima
  RT @KetanJ0: Fantastic explainer on why Norway’s seed vault has been compromised by warmer-than-expected temperatures (In Norwegian but translate does the job). The nearby coal plant (!!) supplying power to the seed vault is also flooding.
• (400) https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1373614515905048577/photo/1
  RT @KetanJ0: Fantastic explainer on why Norway’s seed vault has been compromised by warmer-than-expected temperatures (In Norwegian but translate does the job). The nearby coal plant (!!) supplying power to the seed vault is also flooding.
• SVALT Cooling Dock for Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and more

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