Entries from September 2018 ↓

• Out of my mind: Sarah Perry on writing under the influence of drugs | Books | The Guardian
• I’m With Her: ‘We’re about camaraderie, not Hillary’ | Music | The Guardian
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  RT @twoscooters: Remember how a decade ago was only 2008?
• There’s a 40 percent chance you’ll get away with murder in America – Vox
• Google and Privatized Authoritarianism – Reason.com
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  RT @PhilGroce: If you’re mad and feeling powerless but can spare some cash, this weekend the literal best thing you can do is make…
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  RT @pwnallthethings: Facebook’s technical description of how hackers were able to fraudulently create access-tokens for FB accounts that…
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  RT @Upstreamism: The White House has forbidden the FBI to investigate Julie Swetnick’s claims against Kavanaugh, and provided a list…
• (2) empathy – YouTube
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  RT @MrDanZak: “I interviewed a blackout expert for my book, and he told me something I’ve never forgotten: ‘When men are in a bla…
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  RT @SimonMaloy: this is fucking wild

  the Trump administration is arguing that climate change is both real and will be catastroph…

• Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 – The Washington Post
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  RT @johncarlosbaez: Fog in a Martian canyon on a chilly morning! This is a high-res image of Valles Marineris: a huge canyon on Mars,…
• Opinion | Kavanaugh and the Blackout Theory – The New York Times
• “Flights,” a Novel That Never Settles Down | The New Yorker
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  "Hope can be lethal when you are fighting an autocracy. Hope is inextricable from time… the longer they stay in, th…
• Opinion | A Wise Man Leaves Facebook – The New York Times
• Opinion | A Wise Man Leaves Facebook – The New York Times
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  RT @Sifill_LDF: I had to get up and walk around the room after reading this passage.
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  RT @BulletinAtomic: A posthumous honor for the man who saved the world:

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• The resistance to Donald Trump is not what you think – The Globe and Mail
• Flashback: Yesterday We Again Witnessed an Attempted Rape » DeepStateRadioNetwork
• A posthumous honor for the man who saved the world – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• The Impunity of Brett Kavanaugh’s Binge Drinking – The Atlantic

  “Stumblingly drunk.” “Aggressively drunk.” “Belligerently drunk.”

  One of the questions lurking in all the Kavanaugh chaos is who, in America, is afforded the luxury of lost control:

  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/the-impunity-of-brett-kavanaughs-binge-drinking/571435/ https://twitter.com/megangarber/status/1046054595921874944/photo/1

• At Times, Kavanaugh’s Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point – The New York Times
• California Coronary – Popula
• Since the Kavanaugh hearing, calls to King County sexual-assault hotline have tripled | The Seattle Times
• Brett Kavanaugh Barely Had to Try at Supreme Court Hearing
• Brett Kavanaugh’s Prep-School Swagger
• Kavanaugh ranted like a partisan when he needed to sound like a judge
• Christine Blasey Ford and the fear of flying – The Washington Post

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• Microsoft/LightGBM: A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks. It is under the umbrella of the DMTK
  A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks. It is under the umbrella of the DMTK(http://github.com/microsoft/dmtk) project of Microsoft.
• The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by Sixteen Candles – Vox
• Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100 – The Washington Post

  Last month, deep in a 500-page environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: On its current course, the planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees by the end of this century.

  A rise of 7 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 4 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels would be catastrophic, according to scientists. Many coral reefs would dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Parts of Manhattan and Miami would be underwater without costly coastal defenses. Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.

  But the administration did not offer this dire forecast as part of an argument to combat climate change. Just the opposite: The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.

• Deborah Eisenberg, Chronicler of American Insanity – The New York Times

  “‘People always talk about how horrible old age is, but I couldn’t disagree more,’ she said, the candlelight glimmering on her inclined face. ‘I find age is as intense as adolescence. You know you could hurtle off a cliff at any second.’” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/magazine/deborah-eisenberg-chronicler-of-american-insanity.html

• Opinion | Christine Blasey Ford’s Heartbreaking Desire to Please – The New York Times
• Michael Luo on Twitter: ".@dstfelix: "Thursday’s ordeal reifies that male indignation will be coddled, and the gospel of male success elevated. It reifies that there is no fair arena for women’s speech. Mechanisms of accountability will be made irrele
• The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment | The New Yorker

  Good god, @dstfelix is good: “What took place on Thursday confirms that male indignation will be coddled, and the gospel of male success elevated. It confirms that there is no fair arena for women’s speech.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-ford-kavanaugh-hearings-will-be-remembered-for-their-grotesque-display-of-patriarchal-resentment

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• ‘The Good Place’ Creator Mike Schur Breaks Down Season 2 – Rolling Stone

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• The algorithms that are currently fueling the deep learning revolution
• This Moment Isn’t (Just) About Sex
• Crypto and Cannabis Are the Perfect Post-Crisis Bubbles – Bloomberg
• Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border | The New Yorker
• Here’s proof that Russian-backed accounts pushed the Nike boycott | WIRED UK
• Mapped: How every part of the world has warmed – and could continue to warm | Carbon Brief
• Google Maps VP Jen Fitzpatrick on 20 years at Google
• A quick and easy way to set up an end-to-end IoT solution on Google Cloud Platform | Google Cloud Blog
• Introduction to Machine Learning for Coders: Launch · fast.ai
• American Prisons are not a Revolving Door: Most Released Offenders Never Return | USAPP
• Manta Rays’ Gill Rakers Filter Water Without Clogging – The Atlantic
• The Always-On Police Camera – The Atlantic
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  RT @laurenarankin: Check on the women in your life today, especially those you know are survivors, and even those who may not be. Havi…
• Meet Deb Haaland, Likely to Be the First Native Woman in Congress – Rolling Stone
• China’s Quest to Become a Quantum Superpower
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  RT @ProfCAnderson: @jelani9 brilliant, once again. Cosby, Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas: "This is the rhetoric of men whose definit…
• An Aging Bank Robber’s Last Heist | The New Yorker
• The Feigned Victimhood of Bill Cosby, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas | The New Yorker
• The Crisis of Election Security – The New York Times
• Opinion | Brett Kavanaugh and America’s ‘Himpathy’ Reckoning – The New York Times
• Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against Surveillance | WIRED
• The Incredible Story of How a Golf Magazine Helped Free an Inmate – Mother Jones
• It’s Google’s Turn in Washington’s Glare – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @davidmackau: 🚨 A fourth accusation 🚨

  "According to an anonymous complaint sent to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Kav…

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• trailofbits/algo: Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud
  Algo VPN is a set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN. It uses the most secure defaults available, works with common cloud providers, and does not require client software on most devices. See our release announcement for more information.

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• Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump | The New Yorker
• A Tiger Hunt in India – The Ringer
• Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind
• The man who beat Monsanto: ‘They have to pay for not being honest’ | Business | The Guardian
• Climate change: National parks at greater risk, study says – The Washington Post
• Startling Report Finds Evidence Democrats May Have Attempted To Influence 2016 Election
• What Spotify’s DNA-Test Playlist Gets Wrong About Genetic Ancestry – The Atlantic
• How to write to a single shard on Google Cloud Storage efficiently using Cloud Dataflow and Cloud…
• An Image Search Application that Uses the Cloud Vision API and Cloud AutoML Vision  |  Solutions  |  Google Cloud
• Ben and Jerry’s founders to back Democrat Jess King with new ice cream flavor
• Inside Donald Trump Jr’s College Days of Partying and Womanizing | PEOPLE.com

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• “America is becoming more like Russia” says Russian-born novelist Gary Shteyngart | Salon.com
• Seattle-area women of color share how they navigate the workplace | The Seattle Times
• Literary awards season heats up with $50,000 Kirkus Prize finalists – Los Angeles Times
• BBC – Future – How to use seawater to grow food – in the desert
• Federal judge restores grizzly protections, canceling bear hunt
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• New PPP Poll: Jess King Makes PA-11 Single-Digit Race – Jess King for Congress
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• Stormwater management: How Dutch solutions could have mitigated Hurricane Florence damage – 60 Minutes – CBS News
• Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named – The New York Times
• [1705.05355] Probabilistic Matrix Factorization for Automated Machine Learning
  In order to achieve state-of-the-art performance, modern machine learning techniques require careful data pre-processing and hyperparameter tuning. Moreover, given the ever increasing number of machine learning models being developed, model selection is becoming increasingly important. Automating the selection and tuning of machine learning pipelines consisting of data pre-processing methods and machine learning models, has long been one of the goals of the machine learning community. In this paper, we tackle this meta-learning task by combining ideas from collaborative filtering and Bayesian optimization. Using probabilistic matrix factorization techniques and acquisition functions from Bayesian optimization, we exploit experiments performed in hundreds of different datasets to guide the exploration of the space of possible pipelines. In our experiments, we show that our approach quickly identifies high-performing pipelines across a wide range of datasets, significantly outperforming the current state-of-the-art.
• Microsoft unveils AI capability that automates AI development – The AI Blog
• kubeflow/kubebench: Repository for benchmarking
  The goal of Kubebench is to make it easy to run benchmark jobs on Kubeflow with various system and model settings. Kubebench enables benchmarks by leveraging Kubeflow’s capability of managing TFJobs, as well as Argo based workflows.
• chainer/chainer: A flexible framework of neural networks for deep learning
  Chainer is a Python-based deep learning framework aiming at flexibility. It provides automatic differentiation APIs based on the define-by-run approach (a.k.a. dynamic computational graphs) as well as object-oriented high-level APIs to build and train neural networks. It also supports CUDA/cuDNN using CuPy for high performance training and inference.
• Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Docs
  The skills required to advance your career and earn your spot at the top do not come easily. Now there’s a more rewarding approach to hands-on learning that helps you achieve your goals faster.
• Country-level social cost of carbon | Nature Climate Change

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• Google Cloud Seattle (Seattle, WA) | Meetup
• How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump | The New Yorker
• Twitter
  RT @natasharothwell: I feel like we’re all in a super shitty Escape Room with really obvious clues like, “vote” and “believe women” and…
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  RT @TheLondonLib: For #BannedBooksWeek, here’s our 1859 copy of #GeorgeEliot’s first novel, #Adam Bede, banned by the then hugely pop…
• Denisovan hybrid cave yields four more hominin bones
• Esquire Classic, Our 85-Year Archive of More Than 1,000 Issues, Has a New Look
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  RT @EricHolthaus: Just a friendly reminder:

  In the coming years, the Supreme Court will decide major rulings on climate change — th…

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  RT @ClinicEscort: Being a feminist in 2018 is a never-ending Groundhog’s Day nightmare of thinking "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH T…
• xkcd: Curve-Fitting
• Watch this bizarre, hilarious history of the whole world – Vox
• Deciding on AIOps? – Krish – Medium
• Stephanie Hurlburt on Twitter: "Found a new “relaxing music” livestream that doesn’t feel repetitive! Here: https://t.co/5lhcCSxHWc"
• 名曲J-POPメドレー – Relaxing Piano Music – 24/7 Live – 勉強用BGM, 作業用BGM, 結婚式BGM – YouTube
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  RT @ericuman: Remarkable stat I just heard on @onthemedia:

  Nearly nine in 10 House Republicans are white men, while 6 in 10 Hous…

• it’s arturo! 💫 on Twitter: "it’s bruce springsteen’s 69th birthday! as promised, to celebrate i am going to drop my sizeable bruce folder (at least some of it!!) full of pictures of 70s-90s bruce lookin hot. ready? let’s goooo… https://t.co/DMsSwdNfg
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  RT @MJ_Mouton: This lady right here proved Plate Tectonics/Continental Drift to be true. She used sonar data to map the ocean floo…
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  RT @PaulWitcover: Rep. Steve King: "No man will ever qualify for the Supreme Court" if being accused of sexual assault is "new standa…
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  "A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath"
• A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath – The New York Times
• Low pay, poor prospects, and psychological toll: The perils of microtask work | Ars Technica
• GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-tensorboard
  Google App Engine can provide an easy way to get a persistent Tensorboard server with authentication for a small cost.

  In addition if you find yourself pulling a large amount of data from GCS when starting up Tensorboard servers, you may actually pay less for a persistent GAE server, since you don’t pay for data egress between GCS and GAE.

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  RT @AleZ2016: Drone caught the exact moment when dolphins and whales are playing. Magical moment!!!!
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  RT @CherylStrayed: Every powerfully true word of this. Thank you, @dcopaken

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• John Overholt on Twitter: "Huntington senior paintings conservator Christina O’Connell will work on restoring The Blue Boy in situ in front of the public this fall, making this normally hidden labor visible. https://t.co/NrANgQ61yQ… https://t.co/tfcfq
• Hopkins Psychedelic Research
• They Made It! Japan’s Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu
• Jason Leopold on Twitter: "NEW: @a_cormier_ and I reveal MORE suspicious financial transactions connected to planners of Trump Tower mtg, notably Kaveladze Same day DJT Jr sent email abt setting up mtg this happened. Now under scrutiny by Mueller Also P
• Trump Administration Aims to Sharply Restrict New Green Cards for Those on Public Aid – The New York Times
• #MeToo movement: what so many men are missing – Vox
• A gripping tale of cold-war espionage – Break for the border
• Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet’s immune system | TED Talk
• For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing. – The New York Times
• The Doctor’s White Coat: An Historical Perspective | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association
• I’ve lived as a man & a woman — here’s what I learned | Paula Stone Williams | TEDxMileHigh – YouTube
• White House considers executive order for antitrust investigation of bias at Google and Facebook – Business Insider

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• Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling on Dark-Money Disclosure – The Atlantic
• Accused Sexual Harassers Thrived Under NBC News Chief Andy Lack
• See John Lennon And George Harrison Perform ‘How Do You Sleep?’ : All Songs Considered : NPR
• Paul Kedrosky on Twitter: "tl;dr: Physicians changed from black garb to white lab coats after 1900 to look more science-y in the face of a public who thought they were dangerous quacks. The Doctor’s White Coat: An Historical Perspective https://t.co/CoPD
• The Best of Fiction on Five Books — Expert Reading Recommendations
• The Best Books on Existential Risks | Five Books Expert Recommendations

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• What Would a Serious Investigation of Brett Kavanaugh Look Like? | The New Yorker
• She reported her 2006 rape. Then nothing happened. In the #metoo era, what do we owe her? – Washington Post
• Report: Make It Stop
• Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings | Benjamin Franta | Environment | The Guardian
• OMG WTF – Supporting Democratic Nominees
• Neko Case on Her New Album, Her House Burning Down, and Her Futuristic Feminism | Pitchfork
• As ‘Doonesbury’ characters turn 50, Garry Trudeau describes his journey from pummeling Nixon to tackling Trump – The Washington Post
• Keep Us Steadfast by Keith Sewell and Luke Bulla Lyle Lovett featuring Ray Herndon on Amazon Music – Amazon.com
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• Google warns US senators of foreign hackers targeting their Gmail accounts – CNET
• The Best iOS 12 Features | Digital Trends
• Amazon ramps up effort to make Alexa voice assistant more ubiquitous - Axios
• Washington State Harvest Calendar crop harvest calendar – When fruit and vegetables are normally available and ready to pick in Washington State Harvest Calendar

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