Link. Google AI.
There is no hope for significant tax change this year.
Link. Hope it keeps GOP busy.
Google & Citrix.
Link. Acquisition?
Apple’s Photos App and Lens Correction.
Link. Lens design now expects correction.
Crisis T nears: “grandiosity, nonsense and criminality of the Trump world.”
Link. Or next phase of it.
China closed to US tech.
Link. Don’t expect WTO help. Tariffs on China tech coming?
Google Street View Calendar: when done.
Link. Google rules maps.
Drug mart hit: “taken control of Hansa Market in June and had been operating the site since then”
Link. Bitcoin price drop coming?
NYT: “Jeff Sessions Not Stepping Down”
Link. Does anyone survive this headline?
Google Go win triggers China AI surge.
Link. China buying US AI companies. Success likely.
Sensor tattoo prototypes arrive.
Link. Familiar to SF readers
Reddit’s drug forums get attention.
Link. Usenet was like that.
After months of intraparty conflict some in GOP look to Dems.
Link. Likely too few.
Microsoft resurgent.
Link. Essential competition.
World forces Sessions closer to Obama policy on al Qaeda prisoners.
Link. Adults prevail this time.
Word for iOS displays files well, edits not so well.
No page break, etc. More limited than Pages or Google Docs. Great at viewing docx.
“energy is the expected speed of rotation of the global phase of the wavefunction”
Link. Information as “physical”.
Women fighting to hold the bloody CEO crown.
Link. Wanting to rule in Hell. Nasty space.
Some Known Residual Bugs in macOS 10.12.6
Link. Surprising what stays broken. PDF the worst.
Rclone: command line program to sync files and directories to and from local and cloud file systems.
Link.
When to Force Quit iOS Apps.
Link. Tsai is always right.
APFS and Fast Catalog Search
Link. Don’t enable APFS in 2017.
Russell’s Teapot: most obscure xkcd this year.
Link. Without Google what would we do?
Trump v the law: “President Trump has been in crooked business for decades: money laundering, mob partnerships, various straight-up swindles”
Link. Statute of limitations should shield … unless …
Finland’s UBI experiment fizzles.
Link. Underfunded.
Israel’s humanitarian aid to Syrian border: “aid to an area inhabited by about 200,000 Syrian”
Link. Complicated.
GOP voters swing to ACA “I can’t even remember why I opposed it”
Link. Under 30k from 31 to 52% favor. Still not majority overall.
Software subscription pricing usually a big price hike.
Link. Combined with hard data lock. Customers right to be mad.
GOP moves to repeal ACA without replacement.
Link. As expected. If you have GOP senator please attack.
Micro.blog as Facebook post platform.
Link. Own your posts.
Atul Gawande interview with Tyler Cowen.
Link. Tells Tyler he’s wrong. Several times.
Usain Bolt: 9 foot stride, 16G force lower leg each stride.
Link. Punching ground. Asymmetric stride due to scoloiosis.
Dem identity politics – my spin.
Don't have to make black v white investments. Focus on non-college covers both (black more).
Trump worship among the non-college – another essay.
Link. Most Americans cannot do college and they know their future is bleak.
Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo.
Link. Expensive.
Trump and Russia: kompromat more plausible.
Link. How does the mind of a dull sociopath work?
Algorithms, race, error, and prediction.
Link. After fixing false positives what remains?
Spotlight: “holding down Option to create nested boolean groups in predicate editors.”
Link. Smart folders smarter.
Apple’s Machine Learning Journal/Blog
Link. Tsai finds hidden RSS feed.
Gruber repeats false statement that force quitting iOS apps is pointless.
Link. Worked to fix spotlight failure on 5s and 6.
Y2K: “If you want to prompt expensive, collective global action, you need to tell people the absolute worst that could happen.”
Link. It was real, we did amazing work.
82% of GOP approve of Trump.
Link. America is a sick puppy.
Australia met human 65ky ago.
Link. Before the 50ky revolution.
Semimetal experiment emulates pion-graviton decay and validates string theory prediction.
Link. Wow.
Dogs may all have Williams-Beuren hypersociability syndrome.
Link. Sacrificed cognition to conquer humans – and the planet.
James Byron Haakenson, killed by a monster in 1976.
Link. Identified.
“Mueller would cross a red line if investigators delve into Trump family finances unrelated to Russia.”
Link. About to be fired.
Mexico: “neither just crime nor civil war, but a new hybrid type of organized violence.”
Link.
How legal voting purges work: use low quality duplicate voter identification.
Link. False positives biased to minority. Diabolical.
“m.me is a shortened URL service operated by Facebook that redirects users to a person, page, or bot in Messenger.”
Link. Another URI you didn’t know you had.