Entries from September 2021 ↓

• Yale's Popular Happiness Class, Distilled – The Atlantic
• Michael Pozzan Wines – Products – Pozzan 2018 Oakville Zinfandel
• The remnants of Hong Kong’s independent press

  This past June, Hong Kong police raided the newsroom of Apple Daily, a widely-read newspaper that has campaigned for democracy and against the Chinese government. They froze millions worth of assets and arrested its senior editors on charges of foreign collusion. Days later, the paper closed. Hong Kong media now resembles that of mainland China, […]

  Many have declared the death of #HongKong’s press freedom. But in my latest article for @CJR, I look at three independent outlets in the city, which have adopted different strategies to stay afloat.
  https://www.cjr.org/analysis/hong-kong-independent-journalism-apple-daily.php

• How to Increase Happiness, According to Research – The Atlantic
• A Counterintuitive Way to Cheer Up When You’re Down
• How Not to Know Ourselves. Platform data do not provide a direct… | by Angela Xiao Wu | Data & Society: Points
  Platform data do not provide a direct window into human behavior. Rather, they are direct records of how we behave under platforms’ influence.
• Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers – The Verge
  Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
• Is America Too Rich for Class Politics?
• Picky Puppy Food Journal – by Roxane Gay – The Audacity.
• Giant Ammonite Fossils | ferrebeekeeper
• When the Times Book Review Panned the Classics
  Some of today’s best-loved books — think “Catch-22,” “Tender Is the Night” and even “Anne of Green Gables” — had a rocky reception in our pages.
• It’s Never Too Late to Publish a Debut Book and Score a Netflix Deal
  Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, at 50, is not the average age of a debut author. But the public school teacher describes herself as a “literary debutante” with the October publication of “My Monticello.”
• visual studio code – How to view .ipynb as regular text intsead of an ipython notebook in vscode – Stack Overflow

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• Roosevelt light-rail station fuels rapid growth in North Seattle neighborhood – The Seattle Times
• Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever – The Verge
  Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. “What are you talking about?” multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question.

  Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

• Don’t get scammed: friends edition | Not Bangalore
• (400) https://twitter.com/mxmclain/status/1442950887383736321/photo/1
  RT @mxmclain: Mole removal: $223
  Crying: extra
• Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
• The Ground Is Literally Exploding Due to Climate Change in Siberia, and It’s Going to Get Worse
  “It is a pure stroke of luck” that none of the explosions and their giant craters have "caused loss of life or infrastructure damage,” said one scientist.

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• Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/triple-jeopardy-children-face-dark-future-climate-disasters-rcna2304?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)
  RT @NBCNews: Under 40? Expect an ‘unprecedented’ life of extreme heat waves, droughts and floods.
• sayakpaul/ViT-jax2tf: This repository hosts code for converting the original Vision Transformer models (JAX) to TensorFlow.
  This repository hosts code for converting the original Vision Transformer models [1] (JAX) to TensorFlow.

  The original models were fine-tuned on the ImageNet-1k dataset [2]. For more details on the training protocols, please follow [3]. The authors of [3] open-sourced about 50k different variants of Vision Transformer models in JAX. Using the conversion.ipynb notebook, one should be able to take a model from the pool of models and convert that to TensorFlow and use that with TensorFlow Hub and Keras.

  The original model classes and weights [4] were converted using the jax2tf tool [5].

  Note that it’s a requirement to use TensorFlow 2.6 or greater to use the converted models.

• Frances T. Farenthold, Liberal Force in Texas and Beyond, Dies at 94
  Known as Sissy, she was an advocate for racial parity and women’s rights, and her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency in 1972. Tragedy trailed her.

  RT @margalitfox: R.I.P. Sissy Farenthold, a politician of unfathomable courage who also knew unfathomable loss:

• An elections supervisor embraced conspiracy theories. Officials say she has become an insider threat.
  Mesa County, Colo., Clerk Tina Peters is accused of sneaking an unauthorized person into her office to make copies of Dominion voting-machine hard drives — copies that later ended up online and in the hands of conspiracy theorists.
• The Frustration with Productivity Culture
  Why we’re so tired of optimizing our work lives, and what we should do about it.
• (400) https://twitter.com/gopleader/status/656955984838045696
  RT @RepSwalwell: A broken brain is right once a decade. Please RT this to remind @GOPLeader that America pays our bills.
• Keras documentation: Image Classification using BigTransfer (BiT)
  RT @fchollet: New tutorial on : image classification with BigTransfer (BiT), a state-of-the-art transfer learning method.
• Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning
  Transfer of pre-trained representations improves sample efficiency and
  simplifies hyperparameter tuning when training deep neural networks for vision.
  We revisit the paradigm of pre-training on large supervised datasets and
  fine-tuning the model on a target task. We scale up pre-training, and propose a
  simple recipe that we call Big Transfer (BiT). By combining a few carefully
  selected components, and transferring using a simple heuristic, we achieve
  strong performance on over 20 datasets. BiT performs well across a surprisingly
  wide range of data regimes — from 1 example per class to 1M total examples.
  BiT achieves 87.5% top-1 accuracy on ILSVRC-2012, 99.4% on CIFAR-10, and 76.3%
  on the 19 task Visual Task Adaptation Benchmark (VTAB). On small datasets, BiT
  attains 76.8% on ILSVRC-2012 with 10 examples per class, and 97.0% on CIFAR-10
  with 10 examples per class. We conduct detailed analysis of the main components
  that lead to high transfer performance.
• (400) https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1442177765944356864
  RT @pkedrosky: Now as a thought experiment, imagine what humans would do in a real crisis without power, groceries, or water for a few days. And then try to sleep.

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• Wondermark » Archive » #1062; The Terrible Sea Lion
• Man Honestly Thought Breakdown Would Be More Obvious To People
  RT @TheOnion: Man Honestly Thought Breakdown Would Be More Obvious To People
• (400) https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1442149475317911557/photo/1
  RT @TheOnion: Man Honestly Thought Breakdown Would Be More Obvious To People
• Opinion | We Did the Research: Masks Work, and You Should Choose a High Quality Mask if Possible
  One of the largest studies to date shows masks work.
• Open Source Insights
  Your software and your users rely not only on the code you write, but also on the code your code depends on, the code that code depends on, and so on. An accurate view of the complete dependency graph is critical to understanding the state of your project. And it’s not just code: you need to know about security vulnerabilities, licenses, recent releases, and more.
• Introducing the Open Source Insights Project | Google Open Source Blog
• HermanCainAward Subreddit: the unbelievable grimness of celebrating anti-vaxxer COVID deaths.

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• GitHub – joegrand/pizza-compass: The Pizza Compass will determine your location and direct you to the nearest pizza place. It’s like a regular compass, but better!
  The Pizza Compass will determine your location and direct you to the nearest pizza place. It’s like a regular compass, but better!
• It’s in our blood — Popular Science
  The search for a fountain of youth has obsessed humankind for millennia, but the secret may have been running through our veins all along
• Extremely rare, spectacular film about London during WW-II in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized] – YouTube
• Rare Footage of War-Torn London During World War II That Has Been Enhanced and Colorized by AI Software
• Falling into a pool for an hour
  Main channel vid here – https://youtu.be/Jh2cZKQZ1XAThis one second file was almost 80GBs.
• The Problem of Marital Loneliness | The New Yorker

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• (400) https://twitter.com/DrGBuckingham/status/1441435779067224064/photo/1
  RT @DrGBuckingham: Dunno who made this, but it’s a nice mind bending image of the stuff underpinning the dress
• (400) https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1441257061619159043
  RT @juliettekayyem: This is funny, but it is also a trap. It is meant to establish these fake audits as honest brokers. Are we supposed to think them legitimate because they had Biden win? The headline is that bs audit concocts irrelevant findings. If we give any validity to this process, they win.
• Without federal aid for wildfires, California's wine industry could collapse, vintners say
  RT @JimBair62221006: ‘Without federal aid for wildfires, California’s wine industry could collapse, vintners say"

  "The smoke issue is beginning to bring the industry to its knees"

  #winelovers #wineoclock #winery #California

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• Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’
• Adam Kinzinger: Republicans Are ‘Frigging Crazy’ — The Atlantic
  The Illinois representative thought the GOP was filled with democracy-loving internationalists. Now he sees the party as a corrupt shell of itself.
• No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People — The Atlantic
  This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong.
• (400) https://twitter.com/QAGreenways/status/1440731997811326986
  RT @drvolts: Paris isn’t magic. City leadership decided to do this, they pushed through the doubt & resistance, & now they’ve cut cars almost in half & everyone f’ing loves Paris all over again. Any US city could decide to follow suit.
• Police Say Demoralized Officers Are Quitting In Droves. Labor Data Says No.
  While other industries were devastated by the pandemic last year, police departments felt a much smaller impact.

  RT @MarshallProj: A story has been circulating recently: Police are quitting in droves, demoralized by the Defund the Police movement. But that’s not true. Labor data shows that police lost < 1% of workers last year. Almost every other industry has lost more workers.

• Gira Sarabhai, Designer Who Helped Shape Modern India, Dies at 97
  The youngest daughter of an influential family of industrialists, she trained with Frank Lloyd Wright before returning to India and founding design institutions.
• (400) https://twitter.com/jason_mayes/status/1440708110889275397/video/1
  RT @jason_mayes: Join the live #MadeWithTFJS community show & tell: 1st Oct, 9AM PT! 6 new projects that use #JavaScript + #MachineLearning, from self-driving cars to VTubers, + a book giveaway. Join early, bring a friend, everyone welcome! Save YouTube live stream link:
• TensorFlow.js Community "Show & Tell" #6
  6 new demos from the #MadeWithTFJS global community pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for on-device machine learning using JavaScript. Give your next…

  RT @jason_mayes: Join the live #MadeWithTFJS community show & tell: 1st Oct, 9AM PT! 6 new projects that use #JavaScript + #MachineLearning, from self-driving cars to VTubers, + a book giveaway. Join early, bring a friend, everyone welcome! Save YouTube live stream link:

• Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas
  Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s glaciers melted.
• The Situation – Rands in Repose
• How Trump Planned to Overthrow the Election – by Charlie Sykes – Morning Shots

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• Why the Term ‘JEDI’ Is Problematic for Describing Programs That Promote Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
• CDC warns older adults, travelers in COVID high-risk groups not to take cruises, even if they're vaccinated
• Catching up on 'The White Lotus'? Read our guide to the TV show of the summer
  Ahead of Sunday’s finale, catch up on our coverage of the series, from its $9,000-a-night ‘hotel from hell’ to its most glaring blind spots.
• Wildfires Emitted More Carbon Dioxide Than India Does in a Year
  RT @GretaThunberg: "In July, wildfires emitted nearly 1.3 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, a record that was topped by August’s 1.4 gigatons. Between the two months, forest fires emitted an amount of carbon dioxide greater than all of India’s carbon emissions in a year."
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/22/senate-parliamentarian-mandalorian-star-wars-filibuster/
  RT @petridishes: when will Disney+ pick up my hastily conceived tv show about The Parliamentarian, a solitary figure, named only for their adherence to Code, who wields too much power thanks to the galactic Senate’s dysfunction
• (400) https://twitter.com/calmatters/status/1440691164089241607
  RT @kimmaicutler: “Marin County water officials are competing with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, to purchase three portable desalination plants to bolster water supplies.”
• Untitled (https://calmatters.org/environment/drought-2021/2021/09/california-drought-conservation/)
  RT @EdJoyce: “We’re starting with record low (reservoir) storage,” @KarlaNemeth said. “We would have to have north of 140% of (average) precipitation to generate average runoff into the reservoirs that would begin filling that hole.” #cawater By @RA_Becks #CAdrought
• (400) https://twitter.com/outspanned/status/1440279968554967057/photo/1
  RT @outspanned: Review: "Let me tell you I was bitterly disappointed to learn that this book is, in fact, an instructional guide to the profitable husbandry of ducks as a craft. There is not one sliver of insight about holding ducks accountable for their crimes against humanity, Earth or God."
• My Time with Kurt Cobain | The New Yorker
• What Joe Biden Needs to Tell Warring Democrats
• Apple iPad mini 2021 review: the best small tablet gets stunning revamp
• The Most Important Statistic of the Biden Presidency | The New Yorker
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: Yep.
• (400) https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1440675948072890369/photo/1
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: Yep.
• Herd Immunity: Covid Deaths Devouring the South Are No Accident | The Nation

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• Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy
  Anatomists have bid farewell to “pudendum,” but other questionable terms remain.
• Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both Knockouts, but One Seems to Have the Edge
  A series of studies found that the Moderna vaccine seemed to be more protective over the long term than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Here’s why.
• Super-precise new CRISPR tool could tackle a plethora of genetic diseases
  A new gene-editing tool called prime editing allows for greater precision and control over DNA edits compared to the popular CRISPR-Cas9 system
• Pioneers of revolutionary CRISPR gene editing win chemistry Nobel
  Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna share the award for developing the precise genome-editing technology.
• Trove of CRISPR-like gene-cutting enzymes found in microbes
• Hidden details in iconic portrait of Lavoisiers reveal fears of coming revolution | Opinion | Chemistry World
• The tangled history of mRNA vaccines
• California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions
  From June to August, the blazes emitted far more planet-warming carbon dioxide than in any other summer in nearly two decades, satellite data shows.
• S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own
  After years of small breaks, Cosby has found big success with “Blacktop Wasteland” and “Razorblade Tears,” propulsive books about family, sex, race, class and the stain of Southern history.
• 500 Best Songs of All Time – Rolling Stone
• Thousands of Patients Were Implanted With Heart Pumps That the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous
• Oakland transforms waste to renewable energy (Oakland transforms waste to renewable energy) — High Country News – Know the West
  RT @highcountrynews: "In 20 years, wastewater treatment plants will be valued for all the resources they produce."

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• The U.N. secretary general urges nations to address a ‘cascade of crises.’
  Threatened by wars, climate change and a continuing pandemic, the world is becoming increasingly divided, the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, warned on Tuesday in a sobering speech that called on nations to act.

  https://nyti.ms/3EAtdKq

• A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects
  In “You Bet Your Life,” Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
• What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
  Just asking questions
• How to Install iOS 15, and All the New iPhone Features | WIRED
  The Notes app has turned into something that sort of resembles Google Docs. You can now mention your contacts in shared notes and they’ll get an alert, you can add tags for organization, and there’s an activity view to see exactly what has changed in the note. The best new perk? Quick Note. It turns Notes into a systemwide feature you can access anywhere on the iPad. Just swipe in from the corner and a Post-It-like notepad shows up you can use to jot down your thoughts quickly.
• Covid overtakes 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in U.S. history
  RT @HelenBranswell: Move over, Spanish flu. The #Covid19 pandemic has become the deadliest disease event in American history. The official death toll will surpass the 1918 fatality total in the next few hours. And the U.S. isn’t done accruing Covid deaths, sadly.
• About Us
  We aren’t your average fish sellers. At Loki Fish Co, we’re part of a unique group of small-boat fishermen who have chosen to bypass the processors and market their catch directly to you. We’ve been family owned and operated since our inception in 1979 when Pete Knutson and Hing Lau Ng purchased the Loki, a 38-foot 195
• (400) https://twitter.com/emilyhholden/status/1439922401987399682
  RT @emilyhholden: Observing this moment in history, as the US makes its final, irrevocable choice to not do something serious about #climate change at the last point it could really make a big difference.
• (400) https://twitter.com/jstrauss/status/1439974087103680516/photo/1
  RT @jstrauss: Cool cool.
• Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power: Excerpt
  RT @jstrauss: Cool cool.
• (400) https://twitter.com/icey_mark/status/1439844375870255106
  RT @ClnHz: Fram Strait is completely free of ice.
  Cool cool, not unusual at all, no one panics.
  *narrator’s voice* It is very unusual, and she is panicking
  #ClimateCrisis
• Apple and Google bow to Russia
  The Splinternet marches on

  Wrote about Apple and Google bowing to Russia’s censorship demands. Digital authoritarianism is accelerating so quickly around the world, and it feels like we’re barely even talking about it
  https://www.platformer.news/p/apple-and-google-bow-to-russia https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1440105230205554695/photo/1

• Calming Anxiety With Your Body’s Built-in Anti-Anxiety Response 11/30 – YouTube
• Jupyter Dashboards Layout Extension — Jupyter Dashboards – Layout 0.6 documentation
  The dashboards layout extension is an add-on for Jupyter Notebook. It lets you arrange your notebook outputs (text, plots, widgets, …) in grid- or report-like layouts. It saves information about your layouts in your notebook document. Other people with the extension can open your notebook and view your layouts.

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