pinboard September 25, 2020

• Covid Doctors Find a Turning Point in Life-Threatening Cases – Bloomberg
• Twitter
  RT @volewriter: This makes me very sad. Probably the majority of men have no idea how women’s lives are circumscribed by fear of male violence.
• Biden Endorsed By Nearly 500 National Security Experts : NPR
  RT @michikokakutani: Nearly 500 national security experts – both civilians and former senior uniformed officers — have endorsed Joe Biden for president, saying the "current president" is not up to "the enormous responsibilities of his office."
• (500) https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/outside-agency-to-conduct-criminal-investigation-after-seattle-police-officer-rolled-bike-over-protesters-head/
  RT @pgcornwell: Update: The Seattle police officer who wheeled his bike over a protester’s head while the protester was on the ground has been placed on administrative leave.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/sunday-review/when-spies-hack-journalism.html)
  RT @ScottShaneNYT: Boy, is this true. I wrestled with this two years ago without finding an easy solution. But smart to be ready to 1) discuss before rushing to publish and 2) if publishing, explain everything possible about the apparent source and motives.
• Twitter
  RT @ScottShaneNYT: Boy, is this true. I wrestled with this two years ago without finding an easy solution. But smart to be ready to 1) discuss before rushing to publish and 2) if publishing, explain everything possible about the apparent source and motives.
• Twitter
  RT @anildash: There is no reforming this.
• Twitter
  RT @mattiekahn: I just want to say that @BillieJeanKing is the first person I’ve ever interviewed who—midway through our conversation—asked me if I had negotiated for my salary and whether I felt I was being paid fairly for my work
• Twitter
  RT @garv7yar: As if anyone LIKES going to the dentist, especially now, here’s the entrance to my dentists office.
• The Democratic Party Needs Thugs
• Twitter
  RT @eriqgardner: Bill Murray receives a legal demand from the Doobie Brothers. And it’s everything you’d want it to be…
• Trump Declines To Promise Peaceful Transfer Of Power : NPR
  RT @nprpolitics: President Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the 2020 election, saying "Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation."
• Facebook leaks show Mark Zuckerberg defending his decisions to angry employees
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: The employees are liberal. The user base is right wing. The management thinks it can be neutral. The metrics remain strong. This description of Facebook in the summer and fall of 2020 is of a company ready to profit from civic ruin. By @CaseyNewton
• What happens to the clothes, shoes and linens I give? Learn more from King County's EcoConsumer website – King County
• Twitter
  RT @JoeMillerJr: In case you were wondering how much excess capacity Germany has… this pop-up at Nuremberg station offers FREE tests for passers-by.

  Took me 5 mins as I waited for my train. Place was pretty much empty.

• Twitter
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• Hot Take

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• 2020 NLP Survey Report – Gradient Flow
• One Simple Chart: primary applications of AI in Financial Services – Gradient Flow
• Twitter
  RT @CPhillipsPoet: “Wave of sorrow,/Do not drown me now…” #BlackLivesMatter #BreonnaTaylor #DefundThePolice
• Twitter
  RT @MIT_CSAIL: The world’s largest AI organization just launched a new $1m award aimed at elevating AI to the level of a Nobel.

  The first winner: MIT professor Regina Barzilay, who uses machine learning to diagnose cancer and develop antibiotics.

  #ML #AI

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