pinboard December 29, 2016

• How to Fix iOS 10’s Biggest Annoyances
• Yes you should understand backprop – Andrej Karpathy – Medium
• Practical Deep Learning For Coders—18 hours of lessons for free
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• Remembering Carrie Fisher, the writer · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
• Elkhart’s Economic Recovery – The Atlantic
• The Obama Administration’s Final Warning on the Middle East Peace Process – The New Yorker
• Giacomo declared overall winner of Sydney to Hobart race | Sport | The Guardian
• Winter is coming: prospects for the American press under Trump – PressThink

  Must-read: “Winter is coming.” @Jayrosen_nyu on obstacles to accurate news coverage in the Trump era. http://pressthink.org/2016/12/winter-coming-prospects-american-press-trump/

• A Bigger Problem Than ISIS? – The New Yorker

  A failing dam threatens millions of Iraqis.

• The US could be vastly different a year from now. Here’s how | Opinion | The Guardian
• C3TV – Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

  Absolutely astounding Karsten Nohl talk on the massive insecurity of traveler flight info: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego Stunning & scary.

• Twitter
  RT @ditzkoff: "The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly whats going on"
• Damn, We Wish We’d Written These 11 Stories | FiveThirtyEight
• 11 Essays From Around The World You Needed To Read In 2016 – BuzzFeed News
• Bacteria, Methane, and Other Dangers Within Siberia’s Melting Permafrost | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @wunderkamercast: Princess Leia’s Iconic Buns Were Inspired By These Revolutionary-Era Mexican Women #StyleAsResistance…
• Google Cloud Dataflow Templates  |  Cloud Dataflow Documentation  |  Google Cloud Platform
• [Reviews] | In The Shade, by Jennifer Szalai | Harper’s Magazine
• Twitter
  "…I think hope can be damaging when dealing with populists."
• I watched a populist leader rise in my country. That’s why I’m genuinely worried for America. – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @paulwaldman1: 52% of Republicans think Obama was born in Kenya, & 49% of them believe HRC staffer emails contain code words for p…
• No More Heroes
• 8 Therapists on Postelection Anxiety — Science of Us
• Twitter
  RT @JamesGleick: The key sentence may be this:
  “There is no healthy way of interacting with someone with this affiction.”
• Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors Of Psychiatry Ask President Obama To Conduct ‘A Full Medical And Neuropsychiatric Evaluation’ | The Huffington Post
• You’ve Been Warned
• Profiling Go Programs – The Go Blog
• Africa’s Ancient Trees, Surrounded by a Blanket of Stars | WIRED

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