pinboard November 25, 2017

• Setting up upspinserver · Upspin
• ‘I thought I’d put in a protest vote’: the people who regret voting leave | Politics | The Guardian
• Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy – Salon.com

  Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy
  Yale historian and author of the new book “On Tyranny” says we may have one year left to save American democracy

• The Crisis by M John Harrison | From You Should Come with Me Now
• Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves – The New York Times
• Environment Secretary confirms sentience of animals will continue to be recognised and protections strengthened when we leave the EU – GOV.UK
• Twitter
  RT @kylegriffin1: An all-volunteer group of activists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of voter signatures for…
• Best books of 2017 – part one | Books | The Guardian
• Galapagos finches caught in act of becoming new species – BBC News
• A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres – The New York Times
• Margaret E. Atwood on Twitter: "Hidden Gem in #Vancouver: Amici Mei, 1114 Denman, lovely small Italian restaurant."
• Ask Andrew W.K.: How to Cope With the Death of a Friend | Village Voice
• Film Expression: Feed the Kitty (1952)
• Adorable Lynx Family Caught On Video Revisiting Alaska Man’s Porch – The Dodo
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Hollywood, Sports and Learning From a Culture of Ingrained Sexism (Guest Column) | Hollywood Reporter
• US Census: The US may abandon a key global advantage—honest data about itself — Quartz
• Here’s How Far the World Is From Meeting Its Climate Goals – The New York Times
• How dinosaur scales became bird feathers – BBC News
• How to Switch from iPhone’s iMessage to Android Texting | WIRED
• The religious right’s scary, judgmental old men – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @ruthbenghiat: Yet another sign that the GOP is an subversive institution that needs monitoring like other global forces against…
• Twitter
  RT @audubonsociety: Congress has snuck Arctic Refuge oil drilling into the tax reform process. Take action against this back door effor…
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• 100 Notable Books of 2017 – The New York Times
• BlinkNow
• Stop Congress from Opening the Arctic Refuge to Oil Drilling
• Twitter
  RT @lak_gcp: Clear evidence that women are judged more harshly than men for the same mistake and rewarded less for the same acco…
• ActBlue — The Great Slate
  RT @Pinboard: Thumb your nose at Black Friday by donating to the Tech Solidarity “Great Slate” of 5 rural Congressional campaigns!
• [1506.00553] Bootstrap Bias Corrections for Ensemble Methods
  This paper examines the use of a residual bootstrap for bias correction in machine learning regression methods. Accounting for bias is an important obstacle in recent efforts to develop statistical inference for machine learning methods. We demonstrate empirically that the proposed bootstrap bias correction can lead to substantial improvements in both bias and predictive accuracy. In the context of ensembles of trees, we show that this correction can be approximated at only double the cost of training the original ensemble without introducing additional variance. Our method is shown to improve test-set accuracy over random forests by up to 70\% on example problems from the UCI repository.

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