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• Pedro Almodovar on Oscars 2022, From Zendaya to Will Smith | IndieWire
• Oscar Isaac on 'Moon Knight,' 'Star Wars,' 'Dune' and What's Next
• Hypoallergenic Cats Could Be Possible With CRISPR Gene Editing

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• Brightlines | Doxxing Prevention
  Brightlines can identify and scrub your personal information from the internet.
• Do Texas Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights Standards? One Scottish Court Says Yes
• Google AI and UC Berkely Researchers Introduce A Deep Learning Approach Called 'PRIME' That Generates AI Chip Architectures By Drawing From Existing Blueprints And Performance Figures – MarkTechPost
• All of Us: Release of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences Sets Stage for New Discoveries – NIH Director's Blog
• Elsa Sjunneson: DeafBlind fencer, hiker, published author | American Masters | PBS
  This short film is an extended look at some of the themes explored in American Masters – Becoming Helen Keller, and hopes to provide an updated representation of modern DeafBlind role models today. Elsa Sjunneson is a DeafBlind professor and media critic, skilled fencer and hiker, and published author who has written for Marvel Comics. She is a Hugo Award and Aurora Award winner.
• Jan. 6 Organizers Used Anonymous Burner Phones to Communicate with White House and Trump Family, Sources Say
  A key planner of the Jan. 6 rally near the White House insisted the burner phones be purchased with cash, a source says
• Women Are Calling Out ‘Medical Gaslighting’
  Studies show female patients and people of color are more likely to have their symptoms dismissed by medical providers. Experts say: Keep asking questions.
• Biden Wants to Tax Billionaires Because U.S. Politics Is Still a Class War
• The Hidden Dangers Of Poison Hemlock — Good Housekeeping
  Last spring, Jim LeBlond woke in the middle of the night gasping for breath. As his wife, Jeanne, rushed him to the emergency room, they never suspected that the cause could be anything other than the respiratory disease that had the world in its grip. It turned out the threat to his life was more mundane — and much closer to home.
• Data and AI: Google Cloud datasets and new data benchmarks | Google Cloud Blog
• Imagia Case Study  |  Google Cloud
  To provide greater access to personalized care, Imagia uses Google Cloud Platform to support its collaborative, knowledge-based ecosystem that pairs artificial intelligence with clinical expertise.
• lmcinnes/umap: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
  Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimension reduction technique that can be used for visualisation similarly to t-SNE, but also for general non-linear dimension reduction. The algorithm is founded on three assumptions about the data:

  The data is uniformly distributed on a Riemannian manifold;
  The Riemannian metric is locally constant (or can be approximated as such);
  The manifold is locally connected.
  From these assumptions it is possible to model the manifold with a fuzzy topological structure. The embedding is found by searching for a low dimensional projection of the data that has the closest possible equivalent fuzzy topological structure.

  The details for the underlying mathematics can be found in our paper on ArXiv:

  McInnes, L, Healy, J, UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction, ArXiv e-prints 1802.03426, 2018

  The important thing is that you don’t need to worry about that—you can use UMAP right now for dimension reduction and visualisation as easily as a drop in replacement for scikit-learn’s t-SNE.

  Documentation is available via Read the Docs.

  New: this package now also provides support for densMAP. The densMAP algorithm augments UMAP to preserve local density information in addition to the topological structure of the data. Details of this method are described in the following paper:

  Narayan, A, Berger, B, Cho, H, Density-Preserving Data Visualization Unveils Dynamic Patterns of Single-Cell Transcriptomic Variability, bioRxiv, 2020

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• Led Zeppelin Gets Into Your Soul | The New Yorker
• @tensorflow-models/universal-sentence-encoder – npm
  ??The Universal Sentence Encoder (Cer et al., 2018) (USE) is a model that encodes text into 512-dimensional ??embeddings. These embeddings can then be used as inputs to natural language processing tasks such as?? ??sentiment classification and textual similarity analysis.?
  ?

  This module is a TensorFlow.js GraphModel converted from the USE lite (module on TFHub), a lightweight version of the original. The lite model is based on the Transformer (Vaswani et al, 2017) architecture, and uses an 8k word piece vocabulary.

  In this demo we embed six sentences with the USE, and render their self-similarity scores in a matrix

• The Future of Digital Cash Is Not on the Blockchain | WIRED
• Women are splitting off from Reddit’s preppers sub.
• Conger Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapses amid record warmth – CNN
  nearly the size of Los Angeles
• The Original Definition of Decimate | Merriam-Webster
• Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power
  As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) went to extraordinary lengths to court Trump’s base and lay the groundwork for his own potential 2024 presidential bid, he also alienated close allies and longtime friends who accused him of abandoning his principles.
• CLIP
  The CLIP model was proposed in Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision by Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, Ilya Sutskever. CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training) is a neural network trained on a variety of (image, text) pairs. It can be instructed in natural language to predict the most relevant text snippet, given an image, without directly optimizing for the task, similarly to the zero-shot capabilities of GPT-2 and 3.
• Search | TensorFlow Hub
  tf-hub image embeddings
• Semantic Reactor – Google Workspace Marketplace
  Experiment with machine learning language models.
• Semantic Reactor – Semantic Experiences

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• Screening Deafness
• (400) https://twitter.com/eoinyk/status/1508116790622269447/photo/1
  RT @eoinyk: A lot to chew on here

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• The librarians uniting to battle school book ban laws | GMA
• (400) https://twitter.com/scienceisstrat1/status/1507676252957810690/photo/1
  RT @scienceisstrat1: Perhaps the most important – and terrifying – data point for humanity in recent times. This is what an emergency looks like.

  @paulg @erikbryn @dwallacewells @MichaelEMann

• Bioinstructive implantable scaffolds for rapid in vivo manufacture and release of CAR-T cells | Nature Biotechnology
  Despite their clinical success, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies for B cell malignancies are limited by lengthy, costly and labor-intensive ex vivo manufacturing procedures that might lead to cell products with heterogeneous composition. Here we describe an implantable Multifunctional Alginate Scaffold for T Cell Engineering and Release (MASTER) that streamlines in vivo CAR-T cell manufacturing and reduces processing time to a single day. When seeded with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and CD19-encoding retroviral particles, MASTER provides the appropriate interface for viral vector-mediated gene transfer and, after subcutaneous implantation, mediates the release of functional CAR-T cells in mice. We further demonstrate that in vivo-generated CAR-T cells enter the bloodstream and control distal tumor growth in a mouse xenograft model of lymphoma, showing greater persistence than conventional CAR-T cells. MASTER promises to transform CAR-T cell therapy by fast-tracking manufacture and potentially reducing the complexity and resources needed for provision of this type of therapy.

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• Is Your Brain Foggy? Here Are Five Ways to Clear It
  Studies are finding that isolation, stress, and uncertainty can cause forgetfulness and disorganization. Here’s what to do about it.
• What a world – by Shaun Usher – Letters of Note
  Ken Kesey
• Well-Preserved, 9,000-Year-Old Shrine Discovered in Jordan Desert — Smithsonian Magazine
  Researchers uncovered two standing stones featuring anthropomorphic carvings and a model of a "desert kite" used to trap wild gazelles
• New diabetes research – prevention and insulin treatment
• $50M experiment aims to make Aurora Avenue more welcoming for bicyclists, pedestrians – The Seattle Times

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• Messages, Dialer apps sent text, call info to Google • The Register

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• research!rsc: What NPM Should Do Today To Stop A New Colors Attack Tomorrow
  Russ Cox
• Fed-up owner spends night in Ballard store, thwarts latest break-in
• (400) https://twitter.com/mikebeckhamsm/status/1484303008943034372/photo/1
  RT @mikebeckhamsm: Recently one of our newest team members asked if he could decorate his cubical. When I said yes, I wasn’t expecting this…
• (400) https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1506539085669748744/photo/1
  RT @ruskin147: Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy – we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead
• GitHub – recognai/rubrix: ? Rubrix, open-source framework for data-centric NLP. Data annotation and monitoring for enterprise NLP
  Rubrix, open-source framework for data-centric NLP. Data annotation and monitoring for enterprise NLP
• Cancer detection: Microscopic worms on a chip could be trained to sniff out tumour cells | New Scientist
• TWSBI SWIPE Pear Green Fountain Pen – Broad Nib – Limited Edition | JetPens
• Retro 51 Tornado Fountain Pen – Lincoln – Medium Nib | JetPens
• How to Heal from Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough  – Tricycle
• Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died – The Verge
  It’s pronounced ‘jif’
• Tampermonkey
  Tampermonkey is used to run so-called userscripts (sometimes also called Greasemonkey scripts) on websites.
  Userscripts are small computer programs that change the layout of a page, add or remove new functionality and content, or automate actions.
• How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes – Digital Inspiration
• How to Save Tweets for any Twitter Hashtag in a Google Sheet – Digital Inspiration
• The Best Twitter Search Tricks – Digital Inspiration
• python-aiplatform/README.md at custom-prediction-routine · googleapis/python-aiplatform
  Vertex AI Prediction: User guide for Custom Prediction Routines

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• Axios Wants Us to Read Everything in Bullet Points – The New York Times
• Michelle Yeoh’s Quantum Leaps – The New York Times
• (400) https://twitter.com/marielpadilla_/status/1506427028102426628
  RT @lauren_kelley: A lot of Texas patients are traveling to Oklahoma to get abortions right now. Clinics there have been swamped. The map of legal abortion in America is changing before our eyes, and quickly.
• COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/ericmgarcia/status/1505710196739514373
  RT @caro: Peter Mayhew was kept under close watch on the Northern California set of “Return of the Jedi” out of the fear that if he wandered off set in his Chewbacca costume he’d be shot by hunters who thought he was Bigfoot
• 3/21: Sweet 16: (1) Whitney Houston vs (4) Joe Cocker
• Study: Genetic makeup plays key role in effectiveness of booster doses | WOODTV.com
• Good Meeting | The New Yorker
• The Verge: Google’s Pixel 6 and 6 Pro phones start to get the delayed March feature drop

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