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In a world where life changed seemingly overnight, photographers transformed how they worked, trading intimacy for distance. This is what they captured.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html
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* eastern part of the country.
* followed one woman in labor
* as the city was locking down
* huge waves
* He trailed health care workers inside the home of Claudio Travelli
* São
Paulo to find the city was bracing for the virus
* to document how New Yorkers were feeling
* the iconic Place de la Concorde
* raged through hospitals
* take a portrait of Jerry Seinfeld
* Black man, Rayshard Brooks
* made self-portraits
* food insecurity in America
* across the Amazon
* across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
* injustice protests that roiled Portland, Ore., for weeks
* a loud explosion
* apartment had been destroyed in the explosion
* lost one of them
* one of the first dance performances
* Mr. Trump returning to the White House
* Navajo nation on Election Day
Benjamin Franklin even wrote an ode to a fallen one.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-squirrels-were-one-of-america-s-most-popular-pets
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Lulled into complacency by their rural county's distance from the pandemic's early days, residents of this Kansas county are now paying the price.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/12/coronavirus-deaths-highest-us-rural-republican-leaning-county/3828902001/
* now-rampaging coronavirus
* Gove County
* Edward "Mac" McElhaney
* The beloved grandmother
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A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/
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42,000-foot plumes of ash. 143-mph firenadoes. 1,500-degree heat. These wildfires are a new kind of hell on earth, and scientists are racing to learn its rules.
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Several missions this year are seeking out life on the red planet. But would we recognize extraterrestrials if we found them?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/are-aliens-hiding-in-plain-sight
* Tianwen-1
* Nasa’s Mars 2020
* Hope
* Europa Clipper probe
* Dragonfly
* Viking landers touched down on Mars in 1976
* Huygens lander mission of 2005
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* broader category called “lyfe”
Sanda Dia’s death after an initiation ritual was regarded as a tragic accident. Newly released videos and photos have made it a symbol of growing intolerance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/world/europe/belgium-racism-sanda-dia.html
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Readers discuss the president’s comments and removal of his mask upon his return from the hospital, and the “world-class care” he received compared with that available to others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/letters/covid-trump-health.html
The new way of work requires a new way of managing, whether you like it or not.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/work-from-home-05-culture/
* Future of Business
* home office ergonomics
* collaborating with remote colleagues
* the inevitable return to the office
* what has been working for them as they work remotely
* always been a work-from-home shop
* knowledge workers
* it's the law
* a 3-ish percent wage tax
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When the United States first explicitly defined an official poverty line in 1969, it was supposed to be adjusted every year to ensure that it represented a constant standard of living. However, two problems arose and were never fixed.
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Joshua Green, the author of “Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising,” on Bannon’s indictment on charges of fraud.
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The scheme involved 7,000 $94 toothbrushes, according to law enforcement.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-four-brothers-allegedly-fleeced-19-million-amazon/
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* earlier this year
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What happens when the virtuoso retail campaigner can’t do any retail campaigning?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/joe-biden-convention-retail-campaign-covid/615544/
* he went too far in touching them
* he wasn’t intentionally going too far
* Read: The battle that changed Kamala Harri
* about to get crushed
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The “Real Time” host dove into the weird online world of QAnon Friday night, whose wacko believers think Trump is stopping a cabal of elite Hollywood and Democratic pedophiles.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-relentlessly-trolls-trumps-qanon-nuts-i-am-q
* the paint thinner-huffing absurdity of QAnon
* a drug they’re fiendishly addicted to called Adrenochrome
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The Kushner windfall includes revenues from a luxury development that benefited from a real estate tax break championed by First Daughter Ivanka Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-got-up-to-dollar3-million-from-companies-that-benefited-from-trump-admin-programs-documents-show
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The secret warnings stand in contrast to what President Trump has said about the intelligence in question.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-warns-russia-on-bounties-while-trump-cries-fake-news
* bounties to the Taliban
* what President Trump has said about the intelligence
* reported
* verified
* told
* interview
* interview with Axios this week
* years-long efforts to provide weapons to Taliban forces
* launched
Tuesday’s hearing once again ignites a debate about whether the party’s old guard is equipped to handle oversight of Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-were-dying-to-take-down-bill-barr-then-they-nearly-blew-it
* interrogate Attorney General William Barr
* tweeted tersely
* Jeffrey Epstein’s death in federal custody
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Overexposure by ABC doomed a onetime blockbuster hit.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/29/arts/regis-philbin-millionaire-price-network-hubris/
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There’s anxiety within the upper echelons of Trumpworld that the president’s conservative base—which Trump has long touted as rock-solid—may be starting to rupture.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trumps-mounting-fear-his-base-will-abandon-him-in-november
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The long read: Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness
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* consciousness
* Consciousness
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* Thomas Nagel
* The Hard Problem
* Christof Koch
* Stuart Sutherland
* Francis Crick
* The Conscious Mind
* in an article by his fellow philosopher Colin McGinn
* Daniel Dennett
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Researchers believe they could pre-emptively create vaccines and drugs to fight a wide range of viral threats — if they can get sufficient funding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/magazine/pandemic-vaccine.html
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/
* a dysfunctional government
* willful blindness, scapegoating, boasts, and lies
* families, schools, and offices were left to decide on their own whether to shut down and take shelter
* Civilians took out their sewing machines
* Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Paul M. Romer: Without more tests, America can’t reopen
* contemporaneous study of the fall of France
* David Frum: Americans are paying the price for Trump’s failures
* Read: It pays to be rich during a pandemic
* were somehow able to get tested, despite many showing no symptoms
* Perhaps that’s been the story of life
* its victims have been likely to be poor, black, and brown people
* Ibram X. Kendi: What the racial data show
* we’re learning where our food and goods come from, who keeps us alive
* after a dire private briefing about the virus, she got even richer from the selling-off of stocks
* Adam Serwer: The coronavirus has not halted Trump’s power grab
* The federal government is not designed to solve all our problems
* breeze into the middle of a deadly crisis
* they’re essential workers
* only a competent federal government can do that
* Listen: McKay Coppins discusses pandemic-era propaganda on the ‘Social Distance’ podcast
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Each generation revises his myth. Here’s the true story.
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Yet it has never gained true respectability.
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Distributed teams are on the rise, especially among small- and medium-sized businesses. Here are six reasons that distributed teams are the future of work.
https://monday.com/blog/remote-work/distributed-teams-are-the-future-of-work/
* virtual teams
* says Michael Hershfield
* employees who work remotely
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* A research study on remote work
* achieve maximum productivity
* 65 percent of full-time employees
* team managers
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* Virtual teams can be a win-win solution
Being a lefty goes beyond just a hand preference.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-unique-science-of-left-handedness
* not designed for them
* genetics
* one gene does most of the work
* left up to chance
* diseases
* inflammatory bowel disease
* data
* 2014 plea to start studying lefties
* more resilient to strokes
* more sociological than biological
On Monday, the Imperial College report on COVID-19 was released and the results are terrifying. For those who may not know, the Imperial College in London "has advised the government on its response to previous epidemics, including SARS, avian flu and swine flu," reports The New York Times. "With ti...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/19/0232245/what-happens-if-the-us-does-absolutely-nothing-to-combat-covid-19
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Today’s biggest employers are food delivery and gig jobs. If a big consumption decline happens and people under-employed at home rediscover the joys of self-help and cooking meals, what are the consequences?
https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/covid-19-effect-will-work-from-home-kill-jobs/1902830/
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The wonders of modern medicine and nutrition make it easy to believe we enjoy longer lives than at any time in human history, but we may not be that special after all.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/do-we-really-live-longer-than-our-ancestors
* could expect to live to 52.5 years of age
* a baby girl was expected to live to just 42 years of age
* a baby girl could expect to reach 83
* life expectancy has stopped increasing
* these gains are slowing worldwide
* that continues in various countries today
* didn’t even allow a young man to stand for his first office
* Pliny devoted an entire chapter of The Natural History to people who lived longest
* Pliny remarks
* Their ages of death were compared
* working in the fields
* anthropologists often rely on census returns from Roman Egypt
* from 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years
* life expectancy was longer for villagers than nobles
* royals tended to prefer to live for most of the year in cities
* whether the countryside is a healthier place to live today
* life expectancy in the mid-Victorian period was not markedly different from what it is today
* anthropologists have tried to substitute by looking at today's hunter-gatherer groups
* Data from modern-day foragers
* Looking at dental wear on the skeletons of Anglo-Saxons buried about 1,500 years ago
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You may have heard it before, but has it really sunk in?
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* the Lancet medical journal
* a succession of government surveys
* British Journal of Nutrition
The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939qbz/people-born-blind-are-mysteriously-protected-from-schizophrenia
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This presidential race will be fought on electoral terrain that would have been unthinkable four years ago, before everything blew up.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/07/election-2020-new-electoral-map-110496
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Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/scientists-say-your-mind-isn-t-confined-to-your-brain-or-even-your-body
* Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
Fans of his wife, a physicist herself, are still struggling to get her contributions recognized.
https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/albert-einstein-was-a-terrible-husband/241182
* posthumously awarded degrees
* an ethnic Serb
* Einstein subordinated her work
* the next generation
Democratic socialism and social democracy are two different things, and he is proposing the latter.
https://qz.com/1805692/bernie-sanders-isnt-a-democratic-socialist-he-is-a-social-democrat/
* Nevada caucuses
* 46% of preferences
* tweet commenting on the results
* universal health coverage
* desire to shock
* Democratic Socialists of America
* social democratic
* that the former
Do you agree.
In addition, gene-editing technologies continue to advance in precision and ease of use, allowing families to treat and ultimately cure hundreds of inheritable genetic diseases.
This metatrend is driven by the convergence of: various biotechnologies (CRISPR, Gene Therapy), genome sequencing, and artificial intelligence.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/02/a-vast-range-of-infectious-diseases-ranging-from-aids-to-ebola-are-now-curable
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Tucked into the sign-up process for many popular e-commerce sites and apps are dense terms-of-service agreements that legal experts say are changing the nature of consumer transactions, creating a veil of secrecy around how these compan...
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Johns Hopkins has created an interactive website that tracks the spread of the coronavirus around the globe. The site is updated daily, if not several times per day.
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/interactive-web-site-tracks-the-global-spread-of-the-coronavirus.html
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* an interactive website
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* Italy has seen coronavirus spike from 3 cases, to 132
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Here’s a look at the economic impact of the new coronavirus, from factory shutdowns to grounded flights.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/coronavirus-economic-effects-global-economy-trade-travel/
* remaining in lockdown in dozens of cities
* expected China’s economic growth to slump
* the first drop in global oil demand in a decade
* Nissan and Hyundai
* sporting events
After almost 350 years, physicists have just arrived at a statistical solution for Newton's three-body problem – that is, the problem of figuring out how three similar objects or bodies are going to travel in space in a way that fits in with the
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-they-ve-found-one-way-to-crack-the-infamous-three-body-problem
* three-body problem
* previous research
* says astrophysicist Nicholas Stone
* Isaac Newton
* butterfly effect
* ergodicity
* black holes
* says Stone
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Study participants at some of the country's leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds to do things like quit smoking and worry less
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-drugs-lsd-active-agent-in-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-addiction-depression-anxiety-60-minutes-2019-12-29/
In the past 10 years, they have become an endangered species on the political stage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/opinion/republican-party-women.html
* Martha McSally
* Elise Stefanik
* moderate caucus
* Senator Joni Ernst
* minor role
* four million people
* women
* mobilized
* Martha McSally
* outnumbered
* competitive
* Democratic women as Republican
* House
* eight
* governorships
* state legislative
* chambers
* abortion
* L.G.B.T.Q. rights
* Pew Research Center
* Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll
Iraqi leaders say the United States violated Iraqi sovereignty with attacks that killed 24 people in retaliation for the death of an American contractor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/world/middleeast/iraq-airstrikes-us-iran-militias.html
Deeply conservative, they organize online and outside the Republican Party apparatus, engaging in more explicit versions of the chest-beating seen at the president’s rallies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/us/politics/trump-2020-trumpstock.html
Video interviews and group texts obtained by The Times show men describing their platoon leader in grim terms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/us/navy-seals-edward-gallagher-video.html
A plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding. He wound up blowing the whole theory wide open.
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Einstein was a student long before he became a celebrity. There is a lot to glean from his education and unique approach to learning.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-einstein-learned-physics
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People who achieve the most in life make it a practice to glean wisdom from others.
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A 2018 paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything
* In 2015, doctors in Germany reported
* in a 2014 study
* an extensive treatment of evidence
* newly published paper
* physicalism
* hard problem of consciousness
* constitutive panpsychism
* combination problem
* cosmopsychism”
* idealism
* The Idea of the World: A Multi-disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
* CERN
* www.bernardokastrup.com
Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/21/is-amazon-unstoppable
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Researchers are working to get to the bottom of longevity, unlocking the secrets to extending our lifespans well into our 100s… and beyond.» Subscribe to Seeker!» Watch more How Close Are We |» Follow Olivia on Instagram:
Harvard Professor David Sinclair thinks longevity, or extending our lifespan, is the “greatest unsolved problem in biology.”
The global life expectancy is currently hovering somewhere around 72 years old and women typically live longer than men and the age tends to be higher in developed countries and lower in impoverished nations.
Some experts argue that the tools we currently have when it comes to extending our lifespans are as simple as diet and exercise, but a healthy diet is only going to get you so far. So scientists are seeking out clues in the natural world that could help us side step growing old, some scientists even think that many of the ailments we refer to as diseases could be thought of as the symptoms of aging.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/10/how-close-are-we-to-immortality
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Noam Chomsky has certainly courted controversy throughout his life, but he is also one of the world's most respected authorities on linguistics and cognitive science.
https://interestingengineering.com/who-is-noam-chomsky-and-why-is-he-famous
* as many do
* his works on linguistics
* artificial intelligence.
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* Father of modern linguistics
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* Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
* anarcho-syndicalist
* libertarian socialist
* contradiction in terms
* John Locke
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* Robert Faurisson
* "diametrically opposed" to Faurisson's conclusions
* biography.com
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* U.S.'s foreign policy
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The most prolific musical artists manage to release one, maybe two, studio albums in a year. Rappers can sometimes put out three or four mixtapes during that same time. However, Auxuman plans to put out a new full-length album, featuring hot up-and-coming artists like Yona, Mony, Gemini, Hexe, and Zoya, every single month. How? The power of artificial intelligence of course.
Before this goes any further, don’t worry: You’re not hopelessly out of touch with today’s pop music. Yona, Mony, Gemini, and the rest of the bunch aren’t real musicians. Well, at least not in the sense that you could meet them and shake their hands. They’re A.I. personalities, each with their own characters and genres, which have been created by Auxuman, an artificial intelligence startup based in London.
WATCH new YONA out now
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/10/a-i-musicians-are-a-growing-trend-what-does-that-mean-for-the-music-industry
* artificial intelligence startup
A team at the University of California, Davis has engineered a test to detect opioid drugs in the breath.
https://interestingengineering.com/researchers-develop-breath-test-for-opioids
* RELATED: SCIENTISTS DEVELOP NON-ADDICTIVE PAINKILLER TO BATTLE OPIOID EPIDEMIC
* engineered
* paper
The DC court giveth what it taketh away.
https://qz.com/1721633/us-net-neutralitys-crushing-defeat-this-week-may-end-up-saving-it/
* rejected
* welcomed the ruling
* said in a statement
* FCC’s stated principles of a fair and open internet
* 2015 Internet order
* 3-2 vote
* see
* carmakers’ adoption
* 34 states
* California Consumer Privacy Act
* prefers Congress to act on a strong national framework
Report says cuts greatest in back offices, branches and call centres
https://www.ft.com/content/baf3297a-e456-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
* “tens of thousands” of call centre workers
* half the bank’s 97,000-strong workforce could go
The president, denying all wrongdoing, has confessed to most of what he stands accused of
https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2019/10/04/the-meaning-of-donald-trumps-crazily-damning-self-defence
It’s big in Japan, and it’s starting to catch on with chefs elsewhere
https://www.economist.com/news/2019/10/04/ikejime-a-humane-way-to-kill-fish-that-makes-them-tastier
* 1843
Other companies are even closer than Google, and it’s about more than just cracking cryptocurrency. Mike has the details in this breaking report…
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/mike-adams-google-close-to-cracking-all-cryptocurrency-with-256-bit-encryption-including-bitcoinus-military-secrets-also-breakable
SCIENTISTS have created a “shrink ray” that can reduce objects to one-thousandth of their original size.
The mind-blowing gizmo could one day be used to create nano-robots that are smaller that we can physically produce today.
This brings us a step closer to making 1989 sci-fi comedy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids a reality.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-real-life-shrink-ray-reduces-3d-structures-to-1-1000th-their-original-size
In a new scientific paper, Google researchers claim for the first time to have demonstrated “quantum supremacy,” where a quantum computer outperforms a traditional one.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/09/google-claims-quantum-supremacy-marking-a-major-milestone-in-computing
"The US military has been forced to apologise for tweeting that it would use stealth-bombers on 'millenials' who try to storm Area 51," reports Yahoo News UK:
More than two million people signed up to a Facebook event recently which encouraged atendees to visit the top secret base in Nevada. But on...
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/09/22/2036249/us-military-apologizes-for-joking-about-bombing-millennials-who-might-storm-area-51
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* disperse as many as 200 people
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Being on Earth when this happens is a big deal, no matter your objectives – you can't hoard pebbles if you're dead! People would feel the loss from anywhere in the cosmos. However, Pebblehoarders wouldn't mind if they weren't in harm's way.
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APPENDIX: CONTRIVED OBJECTIVES A natural definitional objection is that a few agents aren't affected by objectively impactful events. If you think every outcome is equally good, then who cares if the meteor hits?
Obviously, our values aren't like this, and any agent we encounter or build is unlikely to be like this (since these agents wouldn't do much). Furthermore, these agents seem contrived in a technical sense (low measure under reasonable distributions in a reasonable formalization), as we'll see later. That is, "most" agents aren't like this.
From now on, assume we aren't talking about this kind of agent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes * Eliezer introduced Pebblesorters in the the Sequences [https://www.readthesequences.com/Sorting-Pebbles-Into-Correct-Heaps]; I made them robots here to better highlight how pointless the pebble transformation is to humans.
* In informal parts of the sequence, I'll often use "values", "goals", and "objective
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TxcYSRQ9giC6zmKov/value-impact
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Edit: I no longer think this post deserves attention.
Edit: Invoking a black-box agent is probably a very bad idea [https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DNKTmmNZr5M2uCZLz/beware-of-black-boxes-in-ai-alignment-research] unless there’s a consensus in the AI safety community it should be done.
This post describes a setup that allows asking a super-intelligent agent a question, and getting an answer that humans with an unbounded amount of time could come up with (Edit: actually, if the question is "too easily distinguishable" from questions we already know the answer to, it's plausible we won't get a useful answer). The setup is not restricted to questions with a single or precise answer, and there is no restriction on the length of the answer. This setup might be safer than the naive one - let me know what you think (and let me know if it's all already covered by existing work).
THE SETUP First, we build a big dataset of (question, answer) pairs: {(Qi,Ai)}
The questions are of the following form: "Limited to 100 words, what might humans answer in 2018 when asked how people in 1950 could most effectively improve their wellbeing?" (Edit: this is a bad example, see first edit)
The answer in this example would be a 100 word text, that might contain the phrase "stop smoking". The questions and answers can be written by any "regular" crowd of people (e.g. MTruk workers).
We then create a super-intelligent agent, denoted X, that has the entire dataset written in memory at invocation time. The agent X is in a box and has no input channel. The goal of X is to find an output string o that is at most n characters long (where n is also written in X's memory at invocation time). The string o is the code of another agent, denoted Y.
Agent Y also has no input channel, and when invoked - some question Qi should be
written in its memory. Its output is a probability distribution over all
possible answers for Qi (we assume that an upper-bound on the answer length is
define by the q
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/68E8emGRvyJPqanvZ/a-safer-oracle-setup
* a very bad idea
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A software engineer pulled a personal project down after he found out that one of the companies using it had recently signed a contract with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The engineer, Seth Vargo, cited the ICE's "inhumane treatm...
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* had recently signed a contract with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
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* selling $95,000-worth of licenses
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Growing inequality in the United States shows that the game is rigged.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/jeff-bezos-s-150-billion-fortune-is-a-policy-failure
* reported
* lone hectobillionaire
* two million times
* given away
* tiny fraction
* this spring
* legal filings
* *
* timed
* handling up
* have repeatedly complained
* temp died on the floor
* 92 percent
* no federal corporate income taxes
* tooth-and-nail
* billions
* billions
* billions
* living wage
* food stamps
* reported on the contracts
* covered by them
* recent study
* instructions
* postage rates
* his administration
* capital-gains tax cut
* poorer than it was
* fuels
* economic growth
* economic sclerosis
* very democracy
* Annie Lowrey
Top tech companies are rallying around the flag. How opportunistic of them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/technology/the-phony-patriots-of-silicon-valley.html
* curry favor
* reportedly offered
* went to the White House
* building a prototype search engine
* reportedly
* elaborate
* lengths
* reiterated
* knocked rival firms
* argued
* agreeing to help
With each news cycle, the false-information system grows more efficient.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-conspiracies.html
* refer to Saturday’s news
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* highly arbitrary and mostly “worthless metric
Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/how-think-about-dire-new-ipcc-climate-report/595705/
* that climate activists are hoping to prevent on a global scale
* Louis Verchot
* the conversion of sunlight into chemical energy
* Read: No climate event in 2,000 years compares to what’s happening now
* cheerfully suggested soaking up most of the planet’s carbon pollution
* put it like this
* Doreen Stabinsky
* a 10-foot sculpture of an orange balloon dog
* Read: California’s wildfires are 500 percent larger due to climate change
* Cynthia Rosenzweig
* according to a recent study
* Timothy Searchinger
* Read: How climate change could trigger the next global financial crisis
* will warm at least 3 degrees Celsius
* generated 80 percent of the energy
* The Permian oil basin in Texas
* the Permian period
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I went to Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion to talk about Tesla. We ended up discussing much more — including his belief that sex with teenage girls should be acceptable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html
Are Trump and his traitorous enablers modern-day McCarthyists?
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/11/keep-calling-him-moscowmitch-mcconnell-is-finally-running-scared/
* Matthew Rozsa
* an infamous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia
* Army counsel Joseph Welch humiliated McCarthy on national television for smearing an innocent man
* former special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed
* during a press conference that July
* met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to likewise obtain "dirt" on Clinton
* longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone did when I interviewed him in 2017
* McConnell has obstructed legislation that would do precisely this
* writing
* I spoke to him in January
* Alexandria Ocasio-cortez
* All Salon
* Donald Trump
* Joe Mccarthy
* Mccarthyism
* Mccarthyist
* Moscow Mitch
* #moscowmitch
* Mueller Report
* News & Politics
* Robert Mueller
* Roger Stone
* Vladimir Putin
It feels like nobody read the Mueller report. That's a shame, because it's an important document, depicting possible crimes by a sitting US president.
https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7
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* pleaded
* said
* indicted
* told
* tweeted
* tweet
* Mark Bowden
* Chad Hurd
* Kim Feigenbaum
* Emily Hartana
* Skye Gould
* Samantha Lee
* Shayanne Gal
* Sonam Sheth
* Michelle Mark
* John Haltiwanger
These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematicsCongruent numbers are all about right triangles, and so is this...
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/1000-years-of-congruent-numbers/
* kpknudson.com
* congruent number
* congruum
* Diophantus of Alexandria
* Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
* show notes for our episode of My Favorite Theorem with Matilde Lalín
* History of the Theory of Numbers Volume II by Leonard Eugene Dickson
* Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement called Bell entanglement—capturing visual evidence of an elusive phenomenon which a baffled Albert Einstein once called 'spooky action at a distance'.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-scientists-unveil-first-ever-image-quantum.html
* quantum entanglement
* quantum mechanics
* practical applications
* quantum computing
* photon
* Researchers explore quantum entanglement
* DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2563
* Science Advances
AN ALIEN UFO has been spotted lurking near the International Space Station (ISS) before the video was dramatically cut by NASA, an alien life conspiracy theorist has claimed.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1150968/ufo-sighting-nasa-film-alien-ufo-international-space-station-iss-conspiracy
* UFO
* Does NASA Apollo 10 photo show ‘Dark Knight’ satellite?
* New Area 51 underground base found on Google Maps
* US Navy pilots spot ‘fast-flying objects’ during training
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern insists mental health is at least as important as GDP.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/8/18656710/new-zealand-wellbeing-budget-bhutan-happiness
* “well-being budget”
* she said
* empathy
* said
* said
* Critics
* said
* some argue
* “gross national happiness”
* policy conferences
* college courses
* well-being report
* world happiness report
* Finland, Denmark, and Norway
* NPR has reported on the process
* Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research
* told
* buen vivir
* vice ministry of “Supreme Social Happiness”
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Awakened Futures, which promises a weekend of contemplation and "high weirdness," thinks of itself as a kind of un-conference. Well, I came undone.
https://www.wired.com/story/weekend-at-awakened-futures-psychedelics-tech-conference/
* decriminalized
* videogame research
* decriminalize mushrooms
Aziz Huq reviews two new books about populism from John B. Judis and Barry Eichengreen.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-feel-of-feeling-left-behind/
* “The Emerging Republican Advantage,”
* electoral adversary
* calculated
* analysis
* challenged
* larger and larger
* studies
* automation
* encourage
* historical work
* quite complex and ambiguous effect
* discrimination
* described
* Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago and is co-author of How to Save a Constitutional Democracy.
We look at how Tchaikovsky deployed a musical illusion in the final movement of Symphony No. 6 to illustrate how the mind constructs meaning out of sound.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/hi-phi-nation-on-sound-illusions-tchaikovskys-6th-symphony-and-how-the-mind-constructs-the-world-of-sound.html
* www.hiphination.org
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A new photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than conventional chips.
The classical physical limit for computing energy is the Landauer limit that sets a lower bound to the minimum heat dissipated per bit erasing operation. Performance below the thermodynamic (Landauer) limit for digital irreversible computation is theoretically possible in this device. The proposed accelerator can implement both fully connected and convolutional networks.
Previous photonic chips had bulky optical components that limited their use to relatively small neural networks. MIT researchers have a new photonic accelerator that uses more compact optical components and optical signal-processing techniques, to drastically reduce both power consumption and chip area. That allows the chip to scale to neural networks several orders of magnitude larger than its counterparts.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/new-photonic-chip-will-push-to-limits-of-computational-energy-efficiency-ten-million-times-beyond-conventional-chips
* A new photonic chip could run optical neural networks
Learn how Arx Pax and Hendo’s magnetic field architecture can levitate not only hoverboards, but also small houses and large buildings.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/how-magnetic-field-architecture-can-levitate-buildings
AmiMoJo shares an article by Cory Doctorow:
Wednesday, Youtube announced that it would shut down, demonetize and otherwise punish channels that promoted violent extremism, "supremacy" and other forms of hateful expression; predictably enough, this crackdown has caught some of the world's leading hu...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/06/08/058247/youtubes-crackdown-on-violent-extremism-mistakenly-whacks-channels-fighting-violent-extremism
Future neutrino experiments may provide tomographic scans of Earth’s interior by viewing solar neutrinos that pass through our planet’s layers.
The Sun showers Earth with neutrinos, but this “glow” doesn’t dim when the Sun goes down. At night, solar neutrinos penetrate Earth, impinging detectors from below. Like x rays in a medical scanner, these planet-traversing neutrinos might offer information about the material they pass through. New theoretical calculations show that future experiments, such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), could characterize the different layers inside Earth with neutrino-based tomography.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/synopsis-scanning-earths-interior-with-neutrinos
SPACEX STARLINK is Elon Musk’s mission to bring broadband around the world. However the Royal Astronomical Society has now voiced concern over the controversial satellite constellation.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/spacex-snub-royal-astronomical-society-concerned
Future spaceships could use black holes as powerful launch pads to explore the stars.
A new study envisions firing laser beams that would curve around a black hole and come back with added energy to help propel a spacecraft to near the speed of light. Astronomers could look for signs that alien civilizations are using such a “halo drive,” as the study dubs it, by seeing if pairs of black holes are merging more often than expected.
Study author David Kipping, an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York, came up with the idea of the halo drive through what he calls “the gamer’s mindset.”
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/halo-drive-lasers-and-black-holes-could-launch-spaceships-to-near-light-speed
There already exist quite a few people that have an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) chips implanted in their bodies. The uses for such technology are many, but could it work well as a virtual wallet?
https://www.coinspeaker.com/are-nfc-implants-the-next-gen-wallets/
* Martijn Wismeijer
* much safer
A gravitational wave generating device comprising an energizing means such as magnetrons, which act upon energizable elements such as film bulk acoustic resonators or FBARs. A computer that controls the magnetrons’ phase. A gravitational wave generation device that exhibits directivity and forms a gravitational-wave beam. The utilization of a medium in which the gravitational wave speed is reduced in order to effect refraction of the gravitational wave and be a gravitational wave lens. A gravitational wave generator device that can be directed in order to propel an object by its momentum or by changing the gravitational field nearby the object to urge it in a preferred direction and be a propulsion means.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/priority-to-us09-443527
A volcano in the far eastern end of Russia that was previously considered to be extinct has awakened, and scientists are now warning of a possible catastrophic eruption.
The Bolshaya Udina volcano — part of the Kamchatka Peninsula’s Udina volcanic complex — was believed to be extinct until 2017, when scientists detected increasing seismic activity beneath it, CNN reported.
Ivan Koulakov, a geophysicist from Russia’s A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics who led a study into the volcano, told CNN he believes Bolshaya Udina should now be reclassified as active.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/06/extinct-russian-volcano-has-woken-up-and-could-erupt-at-any-moment-scientists-say
* CNN reported
"Neuroscientists can now see that brain behavior changes when people rely on turn-by-turn directions," says science writer M.R. O'Connor, citing a study of personal GPS devices co-authored by Kent-based cognitive neuroscience researcher Amir-Homayoun Javadi:
What isn't known is the effect of GPS us...
https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/06/08/0110207/is-our-reliance-on-gps-shrinking-our-brains
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* their brain areas involved in navigation tend to shrink
* Ditch the GPS. It's Ruining Your Brain
"Hello? Who's calling?" For many Americans these days, the call is coming from a "bot" or automated program that seeks to trick them into giving up money or important personal data.
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-tackle-scourge-robocalls.html
* spam messages
* personal information
* identity theft
* economic impacts
* Help coming on blocking scam calls for robocall-plagued US
Summary I was fortunate enough to be raised in a middle-class family by parents who took good care of me, to go to good public schools, and to come into a job market that offered me equal opportunity. I was raised with the belief that having equal opportunity to have basic care, good education, and
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-reformed-parts-1-2-ray-dalio
* link
* this study
* here
* here
* http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/papers/abs_mobility_paper.pdf
* https://www.minneapolisfed.org/institute/working-papers/17-06.pdf
* https://www.oecd.org/social/soc/Social-mobility-2018-Overview-MainFindings.pdf
* https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00556982/document
* https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/90023/err-256.pdf
* http://new.every1graduates.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Data-Matters_083118_FINAL-2.pdf
* http://cdn.ey.com/parthenon/pdf/perspectives/Parthenon-EY_Untapped-Potential_Dalio-Report_final_092016_web.pdf
* https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2013/demo/saipe/2013-school-districts.html
* https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/reardon%20whither%20opportunity%20-%20chapter%205.pdf
* https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FundingGapReport_2018_FINAL.pdf
* https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FundingGapReport_2018_FINAL.pdf
* https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma.asp
* https://www.brookings.edu/research/twelve-facts-about-incarceration-and-prisoner-reentry/
* https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Incarcerated-Parents-and-Their-Children-Trends-1991-2007.pdf
* https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2010/collateralcosts1pdf.pdf
* https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2010/collateralcosts1pdf.pdf
* https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2010/collateralcosts1pdf.pdf
* https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/NHIS/SHS/2014_SHS_Table_A-11.pdf
We spend a lot of energy looking for shortcuts to save time, and sure, those shortcuts add up. But when I look back, my biggest time regrets aren't spending too much time on Twitter or mismanaging my daily tasks.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-biggest-wastes-of-time-we-regret-when-we-get-older
* George Costanza and the Penske file
* asking for help
* finding a mentor
* formula for asking for help
* you're probably not challenging yourself enough.
* you should just call it quits
* I made some common bad decisions
* typical stages of grief associated with loss
* work suffers
* makes you more apt to repeat your mistakes
* Journal of Consumer Psychology
* release the failure
* Emilie Wapnick's process for doing this
* felt like an imposter
* getting annoyed with people who undermine me
* I learned to nip it in the bud
* time wasting emotion: jealousy
* I embraced that jealousy
Upgrade your agenda with this cornucopia of advanced options, shortcuts, and features for Google Calendar.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90328508/26-incredibly-useful-things-you-didnt-know-google-calendar-could-do
* secrets of the most productive people
* 26 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Google Calendar could do
* Gmail
* spend a lot of time in your inbox
* Video
Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-vote-article-17
* protests across Germany
* worried about Google Stadia
* revoke Article 50 went viral
* secret from Facebook and Google
* Then change your phone number
Vice President Mike Pence issued a challenge to NASA today to get back to the moon within five years.
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613207/the-us-wants-to-send-astronauts-back-to-the-moon-by-2024/
* nearly 4.5% of the budget
* about 0.4%
* The Airlock
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next
* five million online petitioners
* 100,000 protestors
* incoherent text
* upheld and strengthened by the ECJ
* European digital rights groups
The European Parliament has finally approved the controversial Copyright Directive that's designed to overhaul copyright law on the internet in the EU.
https://futurism.com/eu-parliament-passes-controversial-meme-ban-and-link-tax
* many observers
* opponents argue
A team at George Church’s Harvard lab wants to redesign species with large-scale DNA changes.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613179/genome-engineers-made-more-than-13000-crispr-edits-in-a-single-cell/
* Rewriting Life
* Antonio Regalado
* made one at a time
* in blasting it out of existence
* paper
* zapped
* eGenesis
* whose genomes are revised so they are immune to all viruses
* recoding
It’s also evidence that elite universities have actually become much more meritocratic.
https://qz.com/1574803/the-bright-side-of-the-college-admissions-scandal/
* college admissions scandal
* 82% of Harvard applicants were admitted
* fell to 9.8%
* was 4.6%
* less than $65,000
* the number of applicants
* Sign up for it here
George Hotz, the enigmatic hacker and founder of self-driving startup Comma.ai, says we’re all trapped in an advanced simulation observed by either an omnipotent extraterrestrial or supernatural being, or an artificial intelligence far beyond the realm of human conception and understanding. Now he wants to break humanity out.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/9/18258030/george-hotz-ai-simulation-jailbreaking-reality-sxsw-2019
* founder of self-driving startup Comma.ai
* billed on the festival’s website
* simulation hypothesis
* entertained by big names in tech
* contentious lawsuit that was later settled
* democratize access to self-driving software
* he promised to end capitalism
* multi-million dollar lawsuit between the two companies
* Way of the Future
There is an impending mobility transformation, a handful of trends will largely determine the benefits--and costs--for business and society.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/the-trends-transforming-mobilitys-future
* Kersten Heineke
* Philipp Kampshoff
* “Woodstock for nerds”
* use cases
* Kersten Heineke
* Philipp Kampshoff
* Michele Bertoncello
* Gianluca Camplone
* We have identified five levels of connectivity
* ranging from $450 billion to $750 billion
* increasingly willing to share
* Michele Bertoncello
* Gianluca Camplone
* Patrick Hertzke
* Martin Linder
* Shivika Sahdev
* McKinsey’s Electric Vehicle Index
* there’s more than one way to close the cost gap with vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines (ICEs) while still improving performance
* Patrick Hertzke
* Martin Linder
* Shivika Sahdev
* Martin Linder
* consequences for natural resources
* cobalt, nickel, and lithium
* Martin Linder
* Russell Hensley
* Jeff Salazar
* hundreds of millions of dollars each year developing AVs
* design improvements
* Russell Hensley
* Jeff Salazar
* McKinsey.com/mcfm
The patient's loved ones say using the robot to deliver the news was "an atrocity".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47510038
dryriver quotes the BBC: A doctor in California told a patient he was going to die using a robot with a video-link screen. Ernest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fremont when a doctor — appearing on the robot's screen — informed him that he would die within a few...
https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/03/09/2257216/a-doctor-remotely-told-a-patient-he-was-going-to-die-using-a-video-link-robot
* m.slashdot.org
* Forgot your password?
* this tool
* Check out Slashdot on Minds!
* recent improvements.
* (bbc.com)
* dryriver
* using a robot with a video-link screen
What’s most worrisome, one source told MIT Tech, was that the malware crosses a new ethical line.
“Targeting safety systems just seemed to be off limits morally and really hard to do technically,” Joe Slowik, a former information warfare officer in the US Navy who now works at Dragos, an industrial cybersecurity firm that’s been tracking the spread of Triton, told the magazine.
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/03/bizarre-malware-is-disabling-safety-systems-at-industrial-plants
The only patients to have taken the new drug so far are lab mice. But even when the mice had been exposed to lethal levels of the flu, 100 percent of the ones treated with the new treatment survived.
Promisingly, according to NPR, the new treatment was also effective at treating human lung cells grown in the lab — potentially paving the way to human trials.
“It’s a really interesting study,” Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who wasn’t involved with the research, told NPR. “We need more drugs in the fight against flu, and this approach could provide them.”
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2019/03/a-new-drug-might-possibly-have-cured-the-flu
Facebook has found its first set of fake accounts targeting the UK – it almost discovered them by accident. The accounts don't change what you think, but exaggerate what you feel
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-uk-fake-accounts
* announced
* found
* pointed
* BBC
* grey markets
* marketplaces
* reports
* met
* second
* YouTube's child ASMR stars
* secret from Facebook and Google
* most powerful company in tech
Eight-letter DNA uses hydrogen bonds just like natural DNA to link its two new pairs—S with B and P with Z—and the bases can appear next to each other.
https://singularityhub.com/2019/02/24/scientists-just-added-four-new-letters-to-the-genetic-code/
* added four new bases
* bacteria to use this code
* stable regardless of the sequence
* new amino acids
* admitted to Wired
* long-term data storage
* reliant on supplies of lab-created building blocks
* life beyond Earth
* told CNN
* search for extraterrestrial life
Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-our-universe-could-emerge-as-a-hologram-20190221/
* Eva Silverstein
* constructed a hologram of dS space
* proposed this basic idea
* a paper published last summer
* described in a recent Quanta article
Famed investor Warren Buffett warned in his annual letter of a "megacatastrophe," which he said will cause unprecedented havoc.
https://futurism.com/warren-buffett-upcoming-megacatastrophe
* annual letter
* dug into the concept
* New Yorker essay
Rony Abovitz, CEO of Magic Leap, says the company is collecting partners to build the Magicverse, a network that will bind physical and digital worlds.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/23/magic-leap-ceo-were-dead-serious-about-the-magicverse/
* Magicverse
* Magic Leap One
* Magic Leap
* Magicverse in October
* Microsoft employees have been protesting
* bid on this contract
These insects’ brains may be tiny, but they’re better with numbers than many human children and they are past masters at communicating life skills
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/10/five-smart-things-honeybees-can-do
* learn to add and subtract
* demonstrated
* waggle dance
* a concept of zero,
* form a “senate”
Domineque Ray was pronounced dead last night at 10:12 p.m. Thirty minutes prior, his execution by lethal injection began.His last words were a proclamation of his Muslim faith in Arabic. But Ray’s imam was missing from the room, despite Ray’s repeated requests to the state for his imam’s presence. In the days leading up to his death, Ray was also denied access to a Quran, though the state ultimately complied with an order to provide the holy text.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/religious-liberty/alabama-muslim-man-was-denied-presence-his-imam-during-his-execution
* proclamation
* reported
* dissenting opinion
Maximiliano Firtman: Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store! I played with the feature for a while, digging into the APIs and here you have a summary of what's going on, what to expect and how to us...
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/02/04/0010209/google-play-store-now-open-for-progressive-web-apps
* create an account
* Forgot your password?
* this tool
* recent improvements.
* (medium.com)
* distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store
Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function
https://www.quantamagazine.org/foundations-built-for-a-general-theory-of-neural-networks-20190131/
* doctors diagnose illnesses
* influence
* Boris Hanin
* Maithra Raghu
* Google Brain
* David Rolnick
* paper
* Max Tegmark
* Jesse Johnson
* no amount of depth can compensate for a lack of width
The United States must appoint a task force to investigate the dangers AR, VR, and AI pose to children. This goes beyond screen time.
https://venturebeat.com/2019/02/03/u-s-needs-a-task-force-to-examine-risks-ar-vr-and-5g-pose-to-kids/
* the most popular technology trends at CES
* artificial intelligence (AI)
* virtual reality (VR)
* second
* NIH
* American Heart Association
* The Lancent
* International Computer Science Institute
* Dr. Jenny Radesky’s lab
* filing a complaint
* chooses to tackle online bullying
* fund research
* I’ve outlined in my May 2018 op-ed to VentureBeat
Researchers have begun proposing, testing, and in some cases implementing large-scale projects to radically transform the planet.
https://singularityhub.com/2019/02/03/will-these-massive-geoengineering-projects-fix-the-earth-or-break-it-more/
* combating climate change
* A recent report
* desertification
* Three-North Shelter Forest Program in China
* the Great Green Wall of Africa
* augmented visual interpretation
* Collect Earth
* Harvard scientists
* A paper
* a 2018 paper
* Lagrange point
* 1.5 degrees Celsius
* cloud seeding
* nucleation
* and even bacteria
* Climeworks
* removing about 30 percent
* Korean paper
* Adding lime
* UN ban on ocean fertilization
* low oxygen concentration.
* Geoengineering Act of 2017
* some companies
* A paper recently published in Nature
* geoengineering
* FoxPix1
* Shutterstock.com
The U.S. Army has placed a $39 million order for tiny reconnaissance drones, small enough to fit in a soldier's pocket or palm.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/us-army-pocket-sized-recon-drones
* according to Business Insider
* press release
An anonymous reader shares a report: There is, however, one demographic that has embraced the Apple Watch with open arms: tech-savvy, upper middle-class teens and tweens. The watch is a convenient workaround for classroom cell-phone bans; it can be used for everything from texting to cheating on tes...
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/02/03/1735245/rich-kids-are-cheating-in-school-with-apple-watches
* m.slashdot.org
* Forgot your password?
* this tool
* recent improvements.
* (theoutline.com)
* it can be used for everything from texting to cheating on tests
In a new study, researchers in Switzerland have demonstrated that it is possible to learn new foreign language vocabulary while in deep sleep and recall this information once awake.
https://interestingengineering.com/study-shows-that-new-vocabulary-can-be-learned-while-sleeping
* published
* foreign language
* learn
* theorized
* semantic connections
* Gadgets
* 11 Of The Best/Worst Weird And Secretly Genius Sleep Gadgets
* said
* says
* 2010 paper
DeepMind's AlphaZero doesn’t play chess like a machine – it plays it like a human grandmaster, but better
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-ai-chess
* AlphaZero
* isn't solving your sitting problem
* best WhatsApp alternatives
* folding phones?
* China's social credit system
* goldmine for hackers
* best of WIRED in your inbox
Shoshanna Zuboff's new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a wake-up call about how tech companies monetize every moment of our lives – and threaten our free will in the process
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-facebook-shoshana-zuboff
* isn't solving your sitting problem
* best WhatsApp alternatives
* folding phones?
* China's social credit system
* goldmine for hackers
* best of WIRED in your inbox
Paul Grimstad on the science-fiction writing of Stanisław Lem, the author of “Solaris,” “Fables for Robots,” “Memoirs Found in a Bathtub,” and “Summa Technologiae.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem
* Chance and Order
* Solaris
* Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
* Summa Technologiae
* Solaris
* Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.
https://futurism.com/new-theory-mirror-image-universe
* new story
* recent paper
* news release
* believed to make up much of the universe
What I mean is that spending too much time on how to be productive is not productive. And just because we are in 2019, that does not miraculously change the laws of productivity. If in 2018 you did…
https://hackernoon.com/the-top-1-337-productivity-tips-for-2019-or-any-other-year-efdb241b97da
* Listen to this
New biomedical technology from the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Group could help end diseases like Parkinson's.
https://interestingengineering.com/mark-zuckerbergs-5-billion-project-to-end-disease-within-a-generation
* 30 million of their Facebook shares
* Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub
* Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub team
* Science
* BrainNet is The World's First Non-Invasive Brain-to-Brain Interface
* that can translate thoughts into commands
* arxiv.org and Nature
* Wand
The same codes needed to thwart errors in quantum computers may also give the fabric of space-time its intrinsic robustness.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/
* Juan Maldacena discovered
* found another holographic code
* Patrick Hayden
* “black hole information paradox,”
Fixing visualization illiteracy starts with 6-year-olds.
https://qz.com/1307848/people-dont-understand-how-to-read-charts-fixing-it-starts-with-kids/
* media we consume
* basic charts
* scatter plot
* tweeted a chart
* data visualizations at a young age
* surprisingly abstract concept
* C’est La Vis
* this link
The complex of American individualism and optimism encompasses both prosperity gospel Christians and California yogis, who may often have more in common than they realize.
http://religiondispatches.org/trickle-down-metaphysics-and-the-dawn-of-a-trumpian-new-age/
* At Your Command
* The Secret
* Oprah episodes
* TED talks
* the prosperity gospel
* observed
* rhetorical affect
* The world’s most influential yoga teacher is a homophobic right-wing activist
The holiday season is my favorite time of the year. It symbolizes family, friends, vacation and of course plenty of good food. I also enjoy it because it marks the end of the year and the beginning…
https://medium.com/@schlaf/how-to-conduct-an-annual-life-review-that-will-catapult-you-into-the-new-year-d5aaffebac1f
* Homepage
* Homepage
* Become a member
* Steve Schlafman
* created a template
Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
* empty websites designed for bot traffic
* faked clicks, mouse movements, and social network login information to masquerade as engaged human consumers
* reported
* President PewDiePie will have imprisoned me
* not even Facebook
* small advertisers filed suit against the social-media giant
* significant overstatements
* According to an exhaustive list at MarketingLand
* though, as Facebook admitted, the 60 seconds in that one minute didn’t need to be watched consecutively
* the Times reminded readers with a lengthy investigation in August
* find a video of a “click farm”
* pic.twitter.com/bHAGLqRqVb
* December 10, 2018
* a Russian troll using a Brazilian man’s photograph to masquerade as an American Trump supporter
* artificial-intelligence personal assistants
* whatever CGI Instagram influencer Lil Miquela is
* The Atlantic reports that non-CGI human influencers are posting fake sponsored content
* Odell discovered an elaborate network of fake price-gouging and copyright-stealing businesses connected to the cultlike Evangelical church
* anonymously produced videos that are ostensibly for children
* A recent academic paper from researchers at the graphics-card company Nvidia
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Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/
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* end development of its own Web rendering engine
* SPDY,
* finally delivered in 2015
* HTTP/3
* make mobile Web content load faster
* try to build AMP with Web standards
* industry oversight
* has today described
* JavaScript implementation of HTML imports
* significant Web presence
* fears
* improved by leaps and bounds over the last year
* Rust language
* Peter Bright
* peter.bright@arstechnica.com
* @drpizza
Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612596/the-man-turning-china-into-a-quantum-superpower/
* Connectivity
* Martin Giles
* China’s Caltech
To make AI a strategic differentiator, organizations need to draw from alternative data sets.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-machine-learning-race-is-really-a-data-race/
* Nobel Prize was even awarded on capital asset pricing
* trade in software and networks
* 83% tangible assets in 1975 to 84% intangible assets in 2015
* replacing some of their expensive consultants
* software has eaten the world
A new study was designed to see if e-cigarettes, like traditional cigarettes, decrease the production of nitric oxide in the human body.
https://m.health24.com/Medical/Stop-smoking/News/why-vaping-may-do-your-heart-no-favours-20181211
* electronic cigarettes
McConnell offered to loan Trump his "hemp pen" to sign the 2018 Farm Bill into law, with farmers in his state standing to benefit.
https://qz.com/1496896/cbd-from-industrial-hemp-will-be-legal-in-us-under-2018-farm-bill/
* said Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
* new cash crop for farmers
* estimate the US market
* touted as a cure-all
* evidence to the contrary
* for the Brookings Institute,
* ban is antithetical
* Jeff Merkley told Politico’s James Higdon
* reinforces the problematic legacy
* disproportionately target and punish
* political reasons
A new study from scientists at Stony Brook University found that moon dust particles could react with human cells — and potentially lead to cancer.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/breathing-moon-dust-regolith-toxic-cancer
* working hard
* NASA mission report
* irritate their lungs
* degrading
* found
* reports
* tells
He delivered huge swaths of public lands to fossil fuel interests, all while racking up a long list of scandals.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/15/18075588/ryan-zinke-resigns-interior-secretary
* pair of
* tweets
* likely take over the agency
* outdoorsman
* Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
* Scott Pruitt
* more investigations
* fly a flag
* criminal investigation
* Hurricane Maria
* denied any involvement
* summer job
* Inspector General
* US Park Police
* Department of the Interior
* our government should work for you
* environmental terrorist groups
* coal leasing
* offshore oil and gas
* Emily Stewart
* memorandum
* undoing environmental regulations
* 10 national monuments
* Bears Ears
* Grand Staircase-Escalante
* oil drilling
* Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
* Deepwater Horizon
* methane
* US Fish and Wildlife Service
* Endangered Species Act
* ruled against Zinke
* Politico
* The Hill
Researchers borrowed equations from calculus to redesign the core machinery of deep learning so it can model continuous processes like changes in health.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612561/a-radical-new-neural-network-design-could-overcome-big-challenges-in-ai/
* Intelligent Machines
* Karen Hao
* paper
* supervised learning
* cats
* paper
* GANs
* subscribe here
As green electricity gets cheaper every day, low cost green hydrogen is coming, and the impact could be far-reaching.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-green-hydrogen-revolution-has-started-and-won-t-be-stopped/
The vast flow of data and money make retail a prime target for cyber criminals.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/9-out-of-10-online-shoppers-are-actually-cyber-criminals/
* report by cyber security firm Shape Security
* Lady Gaga “Little Monster”
* biggest credential exploits
* usually too late
* Wyke Farms cheddar
A test flight by the University of Maryland delivered the organ in good condition.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/first-ever-drone-delivered-kidney-is-no-worse-for-wear/
* experiments in flying a kidney around Baltimore
* IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Knowing how to code is already the most in-demand skill in today’s job market—and it’s not cooling off any time soon. These 11 YouTube channels will show you everything you need to know so you can learn back-end development.
https://interestingengineering.com/11-top-youtube-channels-that-teach-you-how-to-code
* Amazon’s recent announcement
* educational and instructional videos
* YouTube channels
Workers face increases in work volume and demanding schedules, often without extra compensation during holidays
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/23/black-friday-retail-workers-face-long-hours-poor-pay-and-anxiety-through-the-roof
* Amazon
* fulfillment
* center
* 45%
* over 64m
* items
* record $6.59bn
* noted
* “Black Friday Deals Week”
* Amazon
* hire
* attributed
* homeless
* Black Friday
* projects
* 18%
* increase
* decreased
* compete
* Walmart
* Stop Walmart Act
* events
* Alice Walton
Met Police officers are ramming into suspected moped thieves to knock them off their bikes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-46321715/thieves-knocked-off-mopeds-by-police-in-london
Data from 1990 and 2015 was compared to show whether income inequality was rising.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/is-income-inequality-rising-around-the-world/
* the defining issue of our time
* Occupy movement protests
* here
* PovcalNet
* Chartbook of Economic Inequality
* nor inevitable in the face of globalisation
* 45% of world population
* Income Inequality
* going up
* going down
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The industry’s fall from grace may feel unprecedented, but we have a model for what happens when a beloved industry fails us.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/facebook-google-amazon-and-collapse-tech-mythology/575989/
* viral blog post
* blockbuster article
* a torrent of criticism of the deals
* a 50-source story about Facebook’s obliviousness
* statement today
* extract money from tech companies
* a progressive property-transfer tax
* founder worship
* Read: Were we destined to live in Facebook’s world?
* loyalists in charge of all Facebook Inc.
* pushed a line
* Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
* Read: Tech was supposed to be society’s great equalizer. What happened?
* is worth
* is worth
* ticked up
* Submit a letter
* Alexis C. Madrigal
* Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
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The tables below compare general and technical information for some notable active microblogging services and social network services that have status...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_services
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* social network services
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Sci-Hub is a pirate website that provides free access to millions of paywalled and open-access research papers and books.[2][3] Sci-Hub obtains papers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
* pirate website
* paywalled
* research papers
* [2]
* [3]
* usernames and passwords
* stolen university credentials
* [2]
* [4]
* [5]
* [2]
* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Kazakhstan
* developed
* developing countries
* [2]
* [3]
* Elsevier
* American Chemical Society
* [6]
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* [7]
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* Alexandra Elbakyan
* Kazakhstan
* brain–computer interface
* transhumanism
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* developing countries
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* #ICanHazPDF
* [13]
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* ResearchGate
* [16]
* open access
* self-archiving
* institutional repositories
* SHERPA/RoMEO
* institutional repositories
* DSPACE
* EPrints
* Elsevier
* United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
* [17]
* Library Genesis
* [18]
* [19]
* [8]
* Netherlands
* [19]
* [20]
* [21]
* Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
* [21]
* injunction
* [21]
* St. Petersburg
* [19]
* [17]
* default judgment
* [17]
* ScienceDirect
* [19]
* [2]
* [7]
* [22]
* European Union
* [3]
* American Chemical Society
* United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
* Internet service provider
* [23]
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* [6]
* [24]
* [25]
* CloudFlare
* [26]
* [2]
* .io
* [2]
* .cc
* .bz
* [27]
* IP address
* .onion
* Tor
* [28]
* [29]
* [3]
* [2]
* computer fraud
* [9]
* violation
* [4]
* [30]
* [31]
* [32]
* [16]
* phishing
* [4]
* [9]
* [33]
* access other information on university networks
* darknet markets
* [9]
* [34]
* academic publishers
* [3]
* [35]
* DOI
* URL
* domain
* [36]
* gold open access
* CrossRef
* Unpaywall
* captcha
* [37]
* proxies
* [2]
* [4]
* [5]
* [37]
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* [2]
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* electronic books
* [2]
* [38]
* [3]
* [39]
* [32]
* [2]
* [40]
* Access to Knowledge movement
* [3]
* [4]
* [5]
* [31]
* [8]
* [9]
* [7]
* [41]
* [42]
* [42]
* interlibrary loans
* [28]
* Harvard
* Cornell
* [43]
* [3]
* [44]
* Napster
* [33]
* Aaron Swartz
* JSTOR
* [8]
* [45]
* Edward Snowden
* [45]
* Robin Hood
* [13]
* Association of American Publishers
* California State University
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Welcome to the revolution.
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-app-that-lets-you-read-scientific-papers-free-is-transforming-how-we-access-knowledge
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* Unpaywall browser extension
* legal means
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* The Scientist
* controversial site that lets you illegally access millions of scientific papers
* Unpaywall
* dubbed
* applaud that it's tearing down barriers to knowledge
* The Scientist
* only launched in April
* PeerJ Preprints
Ten days ago, I rolled over in my bed to turn off the alarm and immediately swooned with terror: an incredible wave of dizziness followed even the tiniest movements and I wretched with nausea, falling to the floor each time I tried to stand up. Somehow managing to get dressed, I saw the world swimming
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/a-world-off-balance/
A true understanding of the world and our place in it requires interconnections between many disciplines and ways of thinking.
https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/28/5-projects-that-show-how-steam-can-shape-the-future/
* STEAM
* Imagination Age and a creative economy
* divergent thinking
* Climate Change Reimagined
* Symphony of Science
* Quantum Fluctuations: Experiments in Flux
* particle decay
* proton showers
* Feeling Human
* Midnight Star
* Burning Man’s incredible installations
* Dr. Elli Arroway realizes the power of art
* Elon Musk
* SpaceX
* sending artists to the moon
* NASA images
* Shutterstock.com
Across the many studies involving virtual embodiment, people consistently demonstrated a capacity to absorb their new identities instinctively and quickly.
https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/01/how-virtual-reality-can-transform-who-you-are/
* virtual reality
* VR Days Europe
* where you are
* shown to increase a person’s cognitive task performance
* can help rehabilitate
* reduced their unconscious racial bias
* rubber hand illusion
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* it is hoped that these kinds of experiences can improve empathy in parents
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Judging by the current state of global politics, we see multiple “battle royales”
between the globalists and the populists,
the authoritarians and the libertarians,
and capitalism versus socialism…
https://hackernoon.com/how-cryptocurrency-saves-the-world-1637427bde69
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Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards. From a report: That's according to a new law, enacted Sunday, which requires publicly traded firms in the state to place at least one woman on their board of directors by the end of 2019 -- or face a penalty. It also requires ...
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She’s a doctor, a crusader, and one of the most intriguing emerging leaders in the world.
https://qz.com/1402697/the-amazing-ascent-of-priscilla-chan/
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Lego has teamed up with renewable energy company Vestas to create a functioning wind turbine model. The kit is made from sustainably sourced bricks.
https://interestingengineering.com/lego-launches-functioning-sustainable-wind-turbine
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* How Do They Design LEGO Kits?
Roman stoicism taught its followers to accept that we cannot control everything, and to find happiness in what life gives us.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/want-to-be-happy-then-live-like-a-stoic-for-a-week/
* the Handbook
* summarising the ideas
* Meditations
Cancer is tough to treat because it's essentially the body's own cells gone rogue. This year's laureates found a way to tweak the immune system to attack cancer cells.
https://qz.com/1408116/the-2018-nobel-prize-in-medicine-goes-to-james-allison-and-tasuku-honjo/
As Canada prepares to legalize recreational marijuana next month, the impact this will have on online drug marketplaces has remained unclear.
https://www.ccn.com/canada-to-study-cannabis-cryptomarkets-ahead-of-recreational-marijuana-legalization/
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* tender notice
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This week, the DEA gave the green light to allow Tilray, a Canadian cannabis producer, to export medical marijuana to California for scientific research.
http://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/week-in-review-september-17/
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Canadian officials have chosen not to press the U.S. for a better understanding of how it will be determined that someone is associated with Canada's legal cannabis industry and what is grounds for a lifetime ban, but at least one U.S. Congressman wants answers.
https://www.marijuanatimes.org/can-trump-ban-canadians-from-the-u-s-because-of-cannabis/
* allegedly issued lifetime bans
* obtained by Marijuana Moment
* risk of a lifetime ban
This grower could generate up to 700,000 kilograms of cannabis annually, and it's ready for the validation that a reputable U.S. listing brings.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/09/21/the-biggest-marijuana-producer-in-the-world-is-set.aspx
* big things are happening
* NASDAQ:CRON
* beat every other pot stock to the punch
* NASDAQ:NDAQ
* NYSE:CGC
* followed suit
* NASDAQ:TLRY
* skyrocketed more than 1,150%
* Financial Post
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* yield 570,000 kilograms per year
* balloon the company's outstanding share count
* Sean Williams
* disclosure policy
The process of mining cryptocurrencies currently relies on energy from polluting sources. Using excess power from renewable sources instead could convert waste to value and reduce financial risks.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/mining-for-cryptocurrencies-could-be-the-future-of-energy-storage/
* Bitcoin network alone is estimated to use 2.55GW of power
* 75% of all the world’s cryptocurrency mining capacity is based in China
* The renewable share of world electricity generation will grow from 22% in 2012 to 29% in 2040
* 12% of the wind power generated in China was wasted as excess
Many tech titans say they can self-regulate online hate speech and extremism with artificial intelligence, but can they?
http://theconversation.com/big-tech-is-overselling-ai-as-the-solution-to-online-extremism-102077
* the European Union threatened to fine the Big Tech companies
* have used social media platforms
* increasingly exploiting
* Sri Lanka
* Myanmar
* Unliked: How Facebook is playing a part in the Rohingya genocide
* Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab
* Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
* AI technologies
* Public Policy Forum
* it used AI to take down
* Why Canada's response to the Facebook scandal has been so weak
* the company also claims
* 250 companies suspended
* lost confidence of its clients
* a recent study by the NGO Counter Extremism Project refutes
* human rights activist
* YouTube’s AI-powered algorithms removed
* European Union
* Why not nationalize Facebook?
Want to know where the climate action is? Go local.
https://qz.com/1390670/the-world-has-decided-bottom-up-is-the-way-its-going-to-stop-climate-change/
* Global Climate Action Summit
* joined
* 100% emissions-free electricity by 2045
* “overwhelming” number of announcements streaming out of the summit here.
* argue it’s close
* America’s Pledge
* 3,000
* styled as a showcase
* analysis (pdf)
* 2°C increase by mid-century
* Kyoto Protocol
* resounding success,
* admit
* fall to zero by the end of this century
* according to researchers (pdf).
Top energy scientist Daniel Schrag says we have to adapt and innovate, because we’re already signed up for centuries of higher global temperatures.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612032/curbing-emissions-isnt-enough-we-need-emergency-solutions-for-climate-change/
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The data science field is growing at a rapid pace, which is creating a huge need for additional data scientists to join the industry. But with so much competition, the question is, how do you stand out and become successful? Understanding the Role of a Data Scientist The term gets thrown out a lot, but …
https://www.smartdatacollective.com/whats-the-secret-to-success-as-a-data-scientist/
* Thomas H. Davenport writes
* IBM is predicting
* time management tips
For decades, some of the atomic matter in the universe had not been located. Recent papers reveal where it’s been hiding.
https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-have-found-the-universes-missing-matter/
* the missing universe
* dark matter
* Big Bang
this article highlights the list of machine learning certifications, best data science bootcamps in USA, free resources on machine learning
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/08/data-science-bootcamps-machine-learning-certifications/
* become a data scientist
* tutorials
* blogs
* books
* 11 things you should know as a Data Scientist
* 6 week
* Machine Learning (Andrew Ng) on Coursera
* Probabilistic Graphical Models
* Neural Networks for Machine Learning
* Scalable Machine Learning
* Machine Learning Tutorials – Carnegie Mellon University
* Machine Learning Quick Tutorials – Cornell University
* MIT Open Course on Machine Learning
* Machine Learning Algorithms Tutorial by Andrew Moore
* CSCI E-181 Machine Learning
* CSCI E-109 Data Science:
Looking to get ahead as a data scientist? Earning one of these data science certs will help you stand out in one of the hottest careers in IT.
https://www.cio.com/article/3222879/certifications/15-data-science-certifications-that-will-pay-off.html
New laws must be introduced to clamp down on the "wild west" social media world, MPs say.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44995490
* in their committee report
* A copy of the report was leaked on Friday
* was asked
His explanation for the verbal assault is pathetic. Columbus business owner Jeff Whitman is whining that his life is "ruined" after video of him hurling racial slurs at a stranger went viral.Whitman followed Charles Lovett for two miles to his home after an apparent driving incident.Lovett recorded the conversation, in which Whitman can be seen saying, “I just want to let you know what a n----- you are."“So I’m a n----- because you can’t read street signs?” Lovett responded.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/racist-complains-his-life-ruined-after-video-stalking-black-man-and-calling-him-n
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From the beginning there is a curious horror of materialism. Legend has it that the Platonic school strove to destroy the writings of Epicurus and his followers. Later there was a concerted attem…
https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/the-horror-of-materialism-2/
Trump’s lawyers keep stalling — and are waging their PR battle against Mueller in the meantime.
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/6/17543098/giuliani-mueller-trump-interview
* reported
* told the Times
* shook up his legal team
* Mayor Rudy Giuliani
* represented Bill Clinton
* favored
* shifted the terms
* and deadline
* had said in May
* the deadline was pushed to July 4
* waging a PR campaign
* in his boss’s Twitter feed
* to subpoena
* have suggested
* “WITCH HUNT,”
* told the Times
* “Spygate” conspiracy
* admitting
* sanctioning him
* Politico/Morning Consult poll
* put
* according to Politico
* Washington Post-Schar School poll
* at just 49 percent among all adults
* of 45 percent of adults
Gold nanoparticles carried the CRISPR-Cas9 complex into the brain, editing a receptor and lessening the exaggerated repetitive behavior characteristic of autism spectrum disorder.
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/06/25/crispr-reduces-autism-symptoms-in-mice/
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When trouble rears its ugly head, you've got two options: You can run for the hills, or you can stand and face it like a man. Hold on — maybe there are some other choices. You could check in on the most vulnerable people around you and make sure they're safe. You could also team up with your friends to take it on together. Perhaps "fight or flight" isn't the only fear response we've got hard-wired into our brains.
https://curiosity.com/topics/instead-of-fight-or-flight-women-might-tend-and-befriend-curiosity/
* controversial nature of evolutionary psychology
* "Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You:
* Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st Century"
Gurira had an “idyllic childhood” in what was then not a failed state, but an African country with great promise.
https://www.ozy.com/flashback/danai-gurira-reflects-on-africas-astounding-potential/87662
The Black Panther star has broken big, and she is determined to help her homeland do the same.
https://www.ozy.com/flashback/danai-gurira-recalls-when-zimbabwe-was-the-wakanda-of-africa/87678
* Black Panther
* Breaking Big
* Zimbabwe
For years, conservatives have grumbled about women's right to contraception. Now they can do something about it
https://www.salon.com/2018/06/29/its-not-just-about-abortion-without-kennedy-birth-control-could-be-next/
* Amanda Marcotte
* voters recently overturned a long-standing ban
* large majority of Americans supports legal abortion
* Center for Reproductive Rights
* mentioned briefly on a Wednesday edition of her podcast
* Griswold v. Connecticut
* Eisenstadt v. Baird
* Griswold was wrongly decided
* the right to privacy is a fiction
* promoted this idea that Griswold decision
* the right to privacy are simply wrong
* drew attention
* Roberts wrote
* Roberts wrote of Griswold
* expressed a similar view that Griswold was poorly decided
* called the right to privacy
* he voted against the court majority
* requiring women to notify their husbands in order
* writing a major opinion undermining birth control access
* immediately using the arguments in the next contraception case
* Neil Gorsuch could muster about Griswold
* conservative justices overturned
* requiring judges to respect precedent
* As Salon has been chronicling
* recommending that women abstain from sex completely
* by attacking federal policy
* Trump officials even argued
* Politico reported that Valerie Huber
* advocate of abstinence-until-marriage programs
* wrote in 2009
* currently suing the Trump administration
* Carrie Mathison
* Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
Let’s cut to the chase… There’s a new Ethereum Standard Proposal around the corner that could change the face of Ethereum Smart Contracts forever. In this blog post I’ll give a primer on Ethereum and…
https://hackernoon.com/a-proposal-to-shake-up-ethereum-a-new-standard-on-the-horizon-d2dfa88507a6
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The idea of the human race wasting and burning through all its natural resources and driving itself into a dystopian era is a much talked about concept and has received coverage in books, TV, movies…
https://hackernoon.com/swachhcoin-and-circular-economy-9d5ad1dcd68b
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* European Environment Agency
The University of Surrey has helped to create a technique that has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded.
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-team-breakthrough-perovskite-solar-cell.html
* power conversion efficiency
* perovskite
* technique
* cells
* Interest in tandem solar cells heats up
* DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9282
You watched the blood flow from your arm into a vial. The technician capped the vial and secured with a rubber band the scrap of paper containing your name and patient information. When you call to get the results of the test, you learn that it wasn't done because the paper had slipped off the vial, and no one knew who the blood belonged to. Or worse, you receive someone else's results because your name was attached to the wrong vial.
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-microchips-permanently-link-patients-clinical.html
* sample
* medical record
* chip
* patients
* Researchers develop automated robotic device for faster blood testing
Scoring a well-paid job is the goal for most college students. But not everyone wants to fill the obvious roles that we hear about growing up — like...
http://www.businessinsider.com/great-careers-college-kids-often-ignore
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New research shows that entrepreneurs over the age of 46 are the most successful.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/why-middle-aged-entrepreneurs-are-better-than-young-ones/
* new research
* recent publication
* LinkedIn
* Apple
* Microsoft
Based on a global ranking of 100 brands by Forbes.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/the-world-s-100-most-valuable-brands-in-2018/
* global brands
* HowMuch.net
* Walmart
Is the web browser on your phone slower than usual? It could be mining bitcoin for criminals.
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-smart-fridge-bitcoin-criminals.html
* malicious software
* processing power
* currency
* web browser
* virtual currency
* computing power
* Explainer: Why are crypto exchanges vulnerable to hacks?
Mental models are building blocks of wisdom that you can use to make better decisions, think clearer, and avoid bias.
http://www.kevinespiritu.com/mental-models/
* Farnam Street
* Poor Charlie’s Almanack
* Read the full article about Tilt.
* Read the full article about Do / Say Something Syndrome.
* Read the full article about the Pareto Principle.
* Read the full article about Information Asymmetry.
* Read the full article on Hanlon's Razor.
* Read the full article on Satisficing.
We often go through each day without questioning our perception of the world. We seldom stop to wonder whether the world we perceive matches the real world outside. Most of the time, that’s fine…because our perceptions serve us quite well. In fact, our perception is good enough to guide us through a very complex world …
http://www.safalniveshak.com/mental-models/
* Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/
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* famous speech in the 1990s
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Incentives, Social Proof, Law of Numbers, Scale and many more mental models vital to business and life. Includes examples.
http://robdkelly.com/blog/mental-models/a-list-of-top-100-mental-models-for-business/
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* Confirmation Bias
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* Pass the Baton
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Update: I’m co-authoring a book about the mental models from this post. Get notified when the book comes out here. Around 2003 I came across Charlie Munger’s 1995 speech, The Psychology of Human…
https://medium.com/@yegg/mental-models-i-find-repeatedly-useful-936f1cc405d
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* The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
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* Munger says
An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld:
Oracle plans to drop from Java its serialization feature that has been a thorn in the side when it comes to security. Also known as Java object serialization, the feature is used for encoding objects into streams of bytes... Removing serialization is a long-ter...
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/05/26/0520227/oracle-calls-java-serialization-a-horrible-mistake-plans-to-dump-it
Bill Gates has become a powerful influence on publishing. An endorsement from the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder can cause tangible sales spikes, reminiscent of the golden ticket that once came with being picked for Oprah's book club. So just what does Gates read? Quartz manually compiled all 186 of the books mentioned on his blog,...
https://qz.com/1285629/99-books-recommended-by-bill-gates-from-the-last-6-ck-years/
* Political history and biography
* Human evolution and civilization
* Big technology and invention
* Math and science thinking
* Business
* Biography
* Memoir
* Fiction
* Books by Vaclav Smil
* Development and foreign aid
* Education
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* Climate change and energy
* Economics and wealth inequality
* Disease and public health
* Leadership and management
* Happiness, psychology, and purpose
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* All the books Bill Gates has recommended over the last eight years
Kennedy has joined calls for a re-investigation lead by Paul Schrade, the former western regional director of the United Auto Workers, who was also shot in the head at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Robert Kennedy, Jr. has concluded there may have been a second gunman and is now publicly urging a re-investigation into the assassination his father, Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY), The Washington Post reported Saturday.
https://www.alternet.org/robert-kennedy-jr-doesnt-believe-official-story-about-his-fathers-assassination-and-wants-new
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You might want to think twice about handing your DNA over to a private company like 23andme, Ancenstry.com, and others that promise hereditary information. What, exactly, do they do with your DNA?
http://bigthink.com/news/dna-exhaust-how-much-control-do-you-really-have-over-your-genetic-data
* feared Golden State Killer
* BRCA gene
* Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
* does not prevent genetic discrimination
* already have refused coverage
* DNA samples can be taken
* no right to privacy in trash
* faulty DNA information
* banned in Washington D.C. and the state of Maryland
* he DNA evidence appears to have been corrupted
Rick Schumann writes:
A Swiss company called ecoRobotix is betting the agricultural industry will be willing to welcome their solar-powered weed-killing autonomous robot, in an effort to reduce the use of herbicides by up to a factor of 20 and perhaps even eliminate the need for herbicide-resistant ...
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/05/26/0248227/ai-enhanced-weed-killing-robots-frighten-pesticide-industry
Using research from the Rosetta mission, scientists have discovered that Pluto has a lot more in common with Kuiper Belt objects than actual planets.
https://interestingengineering.com/pluto-possibly-formed-from-1-billion-comets-new-research-suggests
* Inspiration
* New Horizon makes it into history books as it flies past Pluto
* Glein said