Briana Brownell

Tech entrepreneur. Data scientist. Lover of art, music, travel, food, wine, and improbable shoes. Narrowly avoided living with a leopard in SoMA. www.leopardless.com

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Nature
A bug’s life: how a volunteer army is putting Britain’s wildlife on the record
The Guardian - Isabella Kaminski
Amateur nature recorders are providing vital data on beetles, soldierflies and a host of lesser-known insects Ashleigh Whiffin’s day job as assistant curator of entomology is to look after National Museums...
22 hours ago
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Technology
Amazon’s union vote could be a harbinger for the future of work
The Washington Post - By Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford is a professor at the University of Southern California at Annenberg, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research and author of “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs...
18 hours ago
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Technology
Facebook Paying People For Information That Feeds AI Algorithms To Prevent Bias
mediapost.com - Laurie Sullivan
Facebook on Thursday released a dataset for AI researchers that includes a diverse group of people who were paid to provide the company with …
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Social Justice
A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker
scientificamerican.com - John Horgan
Steven Pinker irks many of his fellow intellectuals. I’ve knocked him myself for his views on postmodernism and the origins of war, and he’s knocked …
17 hours ago
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The Brain
The Properties of Human Memory and Their Importance for Information Visualization
interaction-design.org
It is important to know that while neuroscience has progressed dramatically over the last decades; there is no complete understanding of how human …
1 day ago
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Technology
The global future is looking dark and stormy
Axios - Bryan Walsh
A new 20-year-forecast for the world: increasingly fragmented and turbulent. The big picture: A major report put out this week by the National …
20 hours ago