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- Scientists Are Getting Better at Predicting Killer Heat Waves
- Equifax Data Breach Settlement | Federal Trade Commission
- This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself
endocrinology
- Check Your Eligibility
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RT @mulegirl: Being unlikable is *such* a timesaver.
- Real Rent Duwamish – Real Rent Duwamish
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RT @JoyAnnReid: Succinctly said:
- Point Austin: “The Time to Act Is Nowâ€: Lloyd Doggett on the need to begin impeachment proceedings – News – The Austin Chronicle
- Permission to Marry? Is It 1950? – The New York Times
- Raising Prospect of Impeaching Trump, House Seeks Mueller’s Grand Jury Secrets – The New York Times
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RT @GretaThunberg: “It’s almost like you don’t even know these numbers exist. As if you haven’t even read the latest IPCC report, on w…
- Prostate cancer: How a full stomach could improve treatment
- Center for an Informed Public | Information School | University of Washington
The University of Washington is establishing the Center for an Informed Public, projected to launch in fall 2019. Its mission is to marshal the collective resources of a world-class research university, embedded within local communities, to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. The Center will be non-partisan. It will bring diverse voices from across industry, government, nonprofits and other institutions.
This interdisciplinary effort is being led by the Information School, Human Centered Design & Engineering and the School of Law, with collaboration from the Communication Leadership Program at the UW and numerous other university and community partners. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation recently announced investments to establish the Center.
- Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne Is the Best Actor on TV
- Report_Volume1.pdf
Just finished reading the (redacted) Senate Intelligence Committee election report. Election systems in all 50 states were targeted. Note that these were primarily state and local back-end systems. There’s more to election security that voting machines.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume1.pdf
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July 26th, 2019 — pinboard
- Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models | Nature Communications
While rich medical, behavioral, and socio-demographic data are key to modern data-driven research, their collection and use raise legitimate privacy concerns. Anonymizing datasets through de-identification and sampling before sharing them has been the main tool used to address those concerns. We here propose a generative copula-based method that can accurately estimate the likelihood of a specific person to be correctly re-identified, even in a heavily incomplete dataset. On 210 populations, our method obtains AUC scores for predicting individual uniqueness ranging from 0.84 to 0.97, with low false-discovery rate. Using our model, we find that 99.98% of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes. Our results suggest that even heavily sampled anonymized datasets are unlikely to satisfy the modern standards for anonymization set forth by GDPR and seriously challenge the technical and legal adequacy of the de-identification release-and-forget model.
All simulations were implemented in Julia and Python. The source code to reproduce the experiments is available at https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/individual-risk, along with documentation, tests, and examples.
- Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You – The New York Times
Scientists have found a way to identify virtually any American from any data set with just 15 attributes, like gender, ZIP code or marital status.
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RT @chrislhayes: The nightmare scenario, one which is not, to my mind, that remote, is that 2020 is very close and amidst recount/co…
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Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
"…this is on cour…
- Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’ | World news | The Guardian
Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable ‘tipping point’
"…this is on cour…
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RT @RVAwonk: New Senate Intelligence Committee report confirms that Russian hackers probed election systems in all 50 states in…
- Russia Targeted Elections Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds – The New York Times
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Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months – BBC News
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July 22nd, 2019 — pinboard
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RT @eric_brewer: This is special…
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RT @theferocity: Over the years, this paragraph has only made more sense as I return to it, armed with my own experiences.
- Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | TED Talk
Drugs like LSD, psilocybin and MDMA — when paired with psychotherapy — could change the way we treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse and more.
Watch @RickDoblin’s full TED Talk here: http://t.ted.com/VxUc5W5 https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/1149033760622612480/video/1
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@tlpayne @elle_desylva yeah, I’m hoping that as a younger generation of politicians starts getting elected, things…
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RT @lmatsakis: I don’t believe that a single person intends to give a tip to a multibillion dollar venture-backed startup. They ar…
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RT @ClintSmithIII: Just finished Eula Biss’s “On Immunity†& this paragraph stopped me in my tracks. I understood, in an abstract way,…
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RT @elle_desylva: As an Australian I find it odd that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib are seen as the “far left†when they’re…
- Mueller report shows evidence Trump committed crimes, House Judiciary chairman says – Reuters
- I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked. – The New York Times
- We rewrote and illustrated the Mueller report so you’ll actually read it – INSIDER
- Apollo 11: As They Shot It – Returning Home – The New York Times
- Apollo 11: As They Shot It – The New York Times
- Review: Jennifer Egan’s ‘Manhattan Beach’ – The Atlantic
- My friends were detained by ICE in Philly. Here’s what happened when I tried to help them. | Perspective
- The Women Divers Hall of Fameâ„¢ (WDHOF)
Amelia Behrens-Furniss
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