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The Governor has been widely praised for his response to COVID. But his critics see a would-be authoritarian obsessed with settling scores.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/19/andrew-cuomo-the-king-of-new-york
* Andrew Cuomo
* Mayor Bill de Blasio
* Bill Clinton
* Centers for Disease Control
Getting to and from work doesn’t have to be soul crushing.
https://hbr.org/2017/05/reclaim-your-commute
* six European cities,
* 909 working women
* British government survey
* Other studies
* study conducted in Sweden in 2011
* lower our anxiety
* activity at hand,
* when we experience failure or loss.
* The first
* discovered
* studies
* New Cities Foundation,
* U.S. Census,
* Global Workplace Analytics
* field experiment
James B. Stewart’s 2002 piece on 9/11 hero Rick Rescorla. "From the World Trade Center, Rescorla said he was taking some of his security men and making a final sweep. Then he would evacuate himself.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/02/11/the-real-heroes-are-dead
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KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE - We have no idea how much uncertainty exists in pre-election polls. That leads to very complex poll-based forecast model...
http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/poll-based-election-forecasts-will-always-struggle-with-uncertainty/
* gave Hillary Clinton a 98% chance of winning
* polling error is generally larger than the reported margin of error
* when nearly everyone had home telephones
* random sampling error
* weights
* which does result in some biases
* coverage error
* 78% of the population that relies mostly or completely on cell phones
* A handful use “probability” methods
* online “nonprobability” polls
* vary greatly in quality
* likely voters
* can easily result in different estimates, depending on the judgment of the decision-makers
* potential changes in how we vote
* it cannot be accounted for in the data
* the model could be adjusted
* poll variance would have to be set extremely high
* Morris
* acknowledged that the model is a work in progress
* adjusted
* adjustment
* will have some data-based ways to adjust for the pandemic
* forcing a lot of ad-hoc decisions for election modelers.
* Gelman states
* My own experience
* Michigan
* Pennsylvania
* Wisconsin
* Most people don’t have a solid understanding of how probability works
* I tried
* most
* people
* will misunderstand them
* will make incorrect assumptions about what they mean
* will
* filter them through
* their own biases
* as Morris notes
* work hard to communicate model outcomes well
* research shows
An administration shift is putting a burden on hospitals and undercutting the integrity of data on the pandemic, current and former members of a federal advisory panel said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/health-experts-warning-coronavirus-data.html
* and on July 14, the C.D.C. stopped publishing its estimates.
* make its analyses of the data public
* The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday
Why did an American city beset by inequality and dysfunction face the onset of the pandemic so well? Because history left it ready for this moment.
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-uniquely-prepared-covid-19/
* a startup like AltSchool
* San Francisco
* Covid-19
* more than their share of infection
* filed for unemployment
* New York's initial outbreak
. Tagged with git, tutorial, beginners.
https://dev.to/unseenwizzard/learn-git-concepts-not-commands-4gjc
* How to teach Git
* git Book
* Reference page
* https://github.com/UnseenWizzard/git_training.git
* good commit messages
* this interesting article
* github.com
* github.com
* Rebasing
* rebase
* rebase
* good commit message
* resolve
* interactive rebase
Note: This is a project proposal I drafted in January 2020, and have been sharing privately for feedback. Now I’m publishing in hopes for broader input. There are currently over 20 million government…
https://medium.com/@abhinemani/project-proposal-mind-the-gap-7a9d6d37e907
When New York went into lockdown this spring, people across the state were required to adapt overnight to online learning, work, and even doctor's
https://www.wrvo.org/post/officials-say-pandemic-exposed-broadband-access-inequality
* new report from Common Sense Media
* been working to expand broadband
What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-design/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-architecture
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* Treatment and Testing
* Economic Impact
* What to Do at Home
* F.A.Q.s
* seen as a symptom
* X-Ray Architecture
* The New Yorker’s coronavirus news coverage and analysis are free for all readers.
* COVID-19
* President Trump
* built greenhouse-like glass booths
* German café
* sneeze guard of plastic
* result
* open office
* the Weeknd
* people in every state across the country
* Aerial photos
* Little Tesseract
* Round Lake Hut
* Space T2
* Linked Hybrid
* coronavirus vaccine
* revealed about American medicine
* maintaining social distancing as the U.S. reopens
* remote work is so hard
* New York leaders did not
* Dr. Anthony Fauci
* What to read, watch, cook, and listen to under quarantine
The New York city's first chief data officer is heading to the private sector. He and Chief Innovation Officer Adria Finch shared their thoughts about how the public CDO position defies neat categorization.
https://www.govtech.com/people/Syracuse-Data-Chief-Sam-Edelstein-to-Depart-City-Service.html
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