Arnie B.flipped into Impactful TechAdvertising Teen Vogue story on Facebook prompts sponsored content fears, vanishes - Business Insider Business Insider - Rob PriceAn uncritical story in Teen Vogue about Facebook's efforts to secure its social network ahead of the 2020 election caused bewilderment over contradictory messages about whether it was paid for by Facebook
Arnie B.flipped into Impactful TechLeadership What you can learn from being asked to resign Fast Company - Lydia DishmanGoldieBlox founder Debbie Sterling says, “At the time, I was completely caught off guard and painfully full of self-doubt. In retrospect, it was the best thing to happen to me as a professional.” In 2014,
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine LearningMachine LearningWhy Are We Using Black Box Models in AI When We Don’t Need To? A Lesson From An Explainable AI Competition · Harvard Data mit.edu In 2018, a landmark challenge in artificial intelligence (AI) took place, namely, the Explainable Machine Learning Challenge. The goal of the …
Arnie B.flipped into PicksScience What's the Difference Between an Avenue, a Road and a Boulevard? howstuffworks.com - Melanie Radzicki McManus Ever wonder why the road you live on may be called an avenue, a boulevard or a court instead of a plain old street? Was it the whim of your …
Arnie B.flipped into DystopiaClimate Change The future is grim Medium - Cache Baba Many reddit users asked me to post my [20k comment] about climate change on a website. So here we are. 10 years ago I was the guy chained up to a …
Arnie B.flipped into PicksTechnology 'I am going to say quiet words in your face just like I did with Trump': a conversation with the Zuckerbot The Guardian - Julia Carrie Wong and Botnik StudiosMark Zuckerberg is press shy. The 35-year-old billionaire’s innate sense of swagger (“I’m CEO … bitch”) has failed to translate into confident public speaking. But after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine Learning This AI researcher is trying to ward off a reproducibility crisis nature.com - Elizabeth Gibney Joelle Pineau is leading an effort to encourage artificial-intelligence researchers to open up their code. Joelle Pineau doesn’t want science’s …
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Narendra Modi cannot wish 200 million Muslims away smh.com.au - Amrit Dhillon Even if they do, their names and addresses are bound to be misspelt. In India no one bothers about getting the spelling of names right. The name …
Arnie B.flipped into PicksOverly simplified but accurate version of what's going on in India (CAB/NRC) imgur.com
Arnie B.flipped into DystopiaIndia Why India shuts down the internet more than any other democracy BBC News - Shadab NazmiAs protests over a controversial citizenship law rage across India, authorities resorted to shutting down the internet in cities where demonstrators flooded the streets. These are the latest shutdowns
Arnie B.flipped into Picks Football claims it’s not political. The Özil affair shows it is - just on the wrong side The Guardian - Afua HirschSports clubs claim to be about neutrality but the issue at stake is quite transparently one of profit What is a modern-day hero? I re-read To Kill a Mockingbird recently – now that it has been adapted
Arnie B.flipped into DystopiaTechnology Facebook ads are spreading lies about anti-HIV drug PrEP. The company won't act The Guardian - Peter Lawrence KaneSince late summer, many LGBTQ+ Facebook users’ newsfeeds have begun to display medically incorrect targeted advertising. These ads pertain to Truvada, a one-pill-a-day pharmaceutical that has been demonstrated
Arnie B.flipped into AI in production Towards a new Theory of Learning: Statistical Mechanics of Deep Neural Networks calculatedcontent.com - Charles H Martin, PhD For the past year or two, we have talked a lot about how we can understand the properties of Deep Neural Networks by examining the spectral …
Arnie B.flipped into AI in production An introduction to Causal inference fabiandablander.com - Fabian Dablander Causal inference goes beyond prediction by modeling the outcome of interventions and formalizing counterfactual reasoning. In this blog post, I …
Arnie B.flipped into Picks Lord Buckethead gives Boris the finger, but Johnson gets last laugh – Election night TV review The Guardian - Stuart HeritageAt 12 minutes past 10 last night, BBC One interrupted a funeral with a tombola. The results of the exit poll had just landed like an anvil, knocking the wind out of everyone in sight. Anchors and pundits
Arnie B.flipped into Flipboard Machine LearningAI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning Research Main Developments in 2019 and Key Trends for 2020 KDnuggets kdnuggets.com It's year end again, and that means it's time for KDnuggets annual year end expert analysis and predictions. This year we posed the question: What …
Arnie B.flipped into AI in production Putting ML in production II: logging and monitoring towardsdatascience.com - Javier Rodriguez Zaurin Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart voices and original ideas take center stage - with no ads in sight. Watch Follow all the …
Arnie B.flipped into Impactful Tech Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology The New York TimesTurning Point: In July, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would fine Facebook $5 billion, the largest penalty ever levied by the agency for consumer privacy violations. A decade ago, Edward
Arnie B.flipped into PicksInteresting read. Hong Kong: “When We Burn You Will Burn With Us” publicbooks.org - J. Daniel Elam
Arnie B.flipped into AI in production Powered by AI: Instagram’s Explore recommender system facebook.com Over half of the Instagram community visits Instagram Explore every month to discover new photos, videos, and Stories relevant to their interests. …
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Fires May Have Killed Up To 1,000 Koalas, Fueling Concerns Over The Future Of The Species Forbes - Trevor NaceEditor’s Note: Since publication, the headline and lede of this story have been changed to better reflect the content of the reporting, and some clarifications have been made. As Australia experiences
Arnie B.flipped into Impactful Tech Russian Cows Fitted With Virtual-Reality Headsets themoscowtimes.com Officials said the experiment “improved overall emotional mood in the herd.”
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Absolutely humongous data breach exposes more than a billion records Mashable - Marcus GilmerWell, this is certainly not great: An unprotected database of more than a billion users' records from across the internet — including "social media accounts, email addresses, and phone numbers" — was on
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Husbands’ stress increases if wives earn more than 40 per cent of household income – new research bath.ac.uk Husbands are least stressed when their wives earn up to 40 per cent of household income but they become increasingly uncomfortable as their spouse’s …
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Fake guns banned in Downtown Las Vegas district, but real guns are OK vegaschanges.com - Published By : admin The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill to ban toy and replica firearms in the city’s entertainment district and on the …
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Warren’s Wealth Tax Is Unethical National Review - Michael R. Strain Senator Warren would impose a 2 percent annual tax on wealth above $50 million, and a 6 percent annual tax on wealth above $1 billion. These numbers …
Arnie B.flipped into Dystopia Night mode: Giant iPhone advert blocking out daylight to poverty-hit families in London apartment block independent.co.uk - May Bulman Poverty-hit families in east London are being deprived of natural light and left feeling “abandoned and isolated” after a huge mobile phone …
Arnie B.flipped into eStupidityBill de Blasio Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change CNN - By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN(CNN) — Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice's Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history on Tuesday night -- just after it rejected measures to combat climate change. historic
Arnie B.flipped into eStupidity Russia Accused of Meddling in New Zealand Bird of the Year Vote themoscowtimes.com - The Moscow Times Following past cases of vote-rigging, Forest and Bird stepped up security measures, requiring users to verify their ballots by email. "We've had a …
Arnie B.flipped into PicksLong-form Journalism History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future The Guardian - Laura SpinneyIn its first issue of 2010, the scientific journal Nature looked forward to a dazzling decade of progress. By 2020, experimental devices connected to the internet would deduce our search queries by directly
Ryan Neavesflipped into Stuff Science What's the Difference Between an Avenue, a Road and a Boulevard? howstuffworks.com - Melanie Radzicki McManus Ever wonder why the road you live on may be called an avenue, a boulevard or a court instead of a plain old street? Was it the whim of your …
debra lawsonflipped into Dinosaurs Animals 300m-year-old lizard found in Canada the earliest parental care in animal - The Jerusalem Post jpost.com - By AARON REICH Amateur fossil hunter Brian Herbert was in for the shock of a lifetime when he discovered the remains of a lizard dating back 300 million years, and …
The Guardianflipped into Top Stories India: largest protests in decades signal Modi may have gone too far The Guardian - Hannah Ellis-Petersen in DelhiStanding in the shadow of Delhi’s historic red fort, SA Khan pushed angrily against the wall of police barricades blocking his way. Khan, like thousands of others, had planned to take part in a peaceful
The New York Timesflipped into Opinion India Awakens to Fight for Its Soul The New York TimesNEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government have deployed propaganda very successfully since coming to power in 2014. So much so that egregious
Marty Roseflipped into Flipboard Machine LearningSocial Media Twitter is disturbingly right and alarmingly wrong about what you’re interested in Recode - Emily StewartVox Slack on a Friday is probably like a lot of office Slacks on Fridays: The chatter there can get a bit … unproductive. And one Friday a while back, it entailed a discussion of what Twitter thinks we’re
Alim S. Gafarflipped into Data SkepticData Science An Epidemic of AI Misinformation thegradient.pub - Gary Marcus Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science …
Vivian Narvaezflipped into H.U.M.A.N What Happens to Ocean Animals During a Tsunami? Scuba Diving Magazine - By David Shiffman In this edition of Ask a Marine Biologist, Dr. David Shiffman answers a question from a reader. Question: What happens to marine organisms during a …
Gregory Scallanflipped into Computer Security Absolutely humongous data breach exposes more than a billion records Mashable - Marcus GilmerWell, this is certainly not great: An unprotected database of more than a billion users' records from across the internet — including "social media accounts, email addresses, and phone numbers" — was on
Mark D. McKeanflipped into Astute ObservationsMedieval The Middle Ages Have Been Misused by the Far Right. Here’s Why It’s So Important to Get Medieval History Right TIME - Matthew GabrieleThe European Middle Ages seem to be having a moment. Although it’s true that, essentially since the time they ended, the period has been used to justify the shape of an author’s contemporary world, the
Ben Fredericksonflipped into Programming Profiling Native Python Extensions benfrederickson.com One of the cool new features in py-spy is the ability to profile native Python extensions written in languages like C, C++ or Cython.Almost all other …
Flipboard Partnersflipped into All News Partners 2College & University At Harvard, 43% of white students are legacies or athletes Quartz - Sarah ToddHarvard University is a notoriously tough school to get into, with an acceptance rate of just 4.5% in the most recent admissions cycle for the class of 2023. But it’s significantly easier to land a spot
Medium The Complexities of Writing About Race and Identity Medium - Kristal Brent Zook In this intimate Q&A, three authors discuss how they’re changing the narratives about people of color Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free …
The Guardianflipped into Comment is Free I thought I’d made it when I got to Cambridge University. How wrong I was The Guardian - Daniella AdeluwoyeI was sold a dream of upward mobility. But from cash to culture, it’s clear my working-class background still counts against me I’ve always been a diligent worker. Having had a part-time job in a fish
The Atlanticflipped into Science The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs The Atlantic - Peter BrannenHumans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply. As tongues of flame lapped the planet’s largest tract of rain forest over the past few weeks, it has rightfully
Chef's Eye Photographyflipped into Today's WorldIdentity Theft 'Never, ever use a debit card,' warns fraud expert and ex-con artist—here's what to do instead CNBC - Frank Abagnale, Contributor Every year, millions of American consumers — nearly 7% of the population — are victims of scams and fraud. In 2017, the number of fraud victims in …
Recodeflipped into All StoriesLiu Yifei How the Hong Kong protests created the #BoycottMulan campaign Vox - Allegra FrankDisney’s upcoming live-action version of its animated 1998 film Mulan is still months away from its March 2020 release. And as has often been the case with the studio’s live-action remakes, the project
Tom Gibsonflipped into Being A People 9 Ancient Sumerian Inventions That Changed the World history.com - By Patrick J. Kiger The ancient Sumerians, who flourished thousands of years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what today is southern Iraq, built a …
Mashable Edward Snowden says Facebook is spying on you Mashable - Jack MorseThe U.S. government is not the only one that's watching you. So warns famed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who on Thursday called Facebook to task for spying on its users. What's more, he promised teach
mike millslagelflipped into tech stuff Bash aliases you can’t live without opensource.com - 31 Jul 2019 Seth Kenlon (Red Hat) Feed A Bash alias is a method of supplementing or overriding Bash commands with new ones. Bash aliases make it easy for users to customize their …
Icon version of the Flipboard logoC++ Programming std::format in C++20 zverovich.net - www.zverovich.net std::format in C++20I’m happy to announce that the Text Formatting proposal (std::format) made it into the C++20 Committee Draft at the Cologne …
The Guardianflipped into Film Dead Poets Society: 30 years on Robin Williams' stirring call to 'seize the day' endures The Guardian - Luke BuckmasterFrom its enthusiasm for literature to its rousing finale, Peter Weir’s film is a salute to inspiration itself To appreciate the cultural impact of Peter Weir’s 1989 coming-of-age classic, Dead Poets Society,
TePflipped into 21st Century America Mobile Technology For Amazon Prime Day, consider cancelling your Prime account Quartz - Alison GriswoldIn the beginning, I signed up for Prime, Amazon’s signature membership program, to get access to the Washington Post. At the time in 2017, a one-year subscription to the Post cost $99. For the same price,
flipity pullflipped into Optimal Optional Opinion Most Ancient Romans Ate Like Animals Live Science - Stephanie Pappas Ancient Romans are known for eating well, with mosaics from the empire portraying sumptuous displays of fruits, vegetables, cakes — and, of course, …
aperçu énergieflipped into Tech, Free Expression, & Human RightsPrivacy Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke The Verge - Nilay PatelFacebook’s stock went up after news of a record-breaking $5 billion FTC fine for various privacy violations broke today. That, as The New York Times’ Mike Isaac points out, is the real story here: the
The Guardianflipped into Lifestyle Romesh Ranganathan: even the loveliest people get road rage – my mum included The Guardian - Romesh RanganathanThe van driver suggested we both pull over and sort this out physically I find it baffling how much of a war zone the road is. In life, we mostly manage to walk around interacting with each other fairly
Natural Language Processing Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval googleblog.com - Google AI Posted by Yinfei Yang and Amin Ahmad, Software Engineers, Google Research Since it was introduced last year, “Universal Sentence Encoder (USE) for …
Tahersarkarflipped into Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Discovery of Raptor-Like Dinosaur Adds a New Wrinkle to the Origin of Birds smithsonianmag.com - Riley Black In 2003, while excavating the enormous bones of a Supersaurus nicknamed “Jimbo,” Wyoming Dinosaur Center paleontologist Bill Wahl spotted something …
The Guardianflipped into Top Stories Chinese city's ban on 'Beijing bikinis' leaves men hot under collar The Guardian - Christy Choi in Hong KongJinan’s diktat on ‘uncivilised’ baring of male midriffs among list of banned behaviours A Chinese city is cracking down on the practice of men rolling up their shirts and baring their bellies, as temperatures
Nilanjan Ghoshflipped into Nilanjan's Mag How India's Water Ends Up Everywhere But India Bloomberg - David Fickling As a child in 1943, the Indian economist Amartya Sen watched one of the worst famines of the 20th century sweep through his native Bengal. Contrary …
Bloombergflipped into Asia News India’s Water Crisis Is Man-Made Bloomberg - Mihir Sharma One of India’s largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. In the middle of a particularly hot summer, the …
Overly simplified but accurate version of what's going on in India (CAB/NRC)
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