Link. TripMode is essential. The data partitioning is what we’ll get now that net neutrality is dead.
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macOS has a ridiculous range of great text editors.
Link. Interesting to ask why we have so much choice here, and so little in photo management. I think it’s the standard data format.
Redefining Alzheimers by biomarker: “eight different ways … depending beta-amyloid, tau, and apparent neurodegenerative damage.”
Link. We need a reboot. We are getting nowhere.
Google’s peculiar email feature leads to emergent security bug.
Link. At the intersection of complex systems…
Advances in mapping neural networks
Link. Always more illogical.
“first politician in however many decades of modern American political oratory to capitalize on the fact that nobody likes listening to modern American political oratory”
Link. Is true I never listen to any of it.
538 imagines a Moscow pro-GOP attack.
Link. GOP has blocked defenses. Time to rename Party of Putin.
The Tragedy of James Comey: “No matter how brave Comey has since been, no matter how honorable his full career, he can never undo that damage.”
Link. Pride was Lucifer’s sin.
Why particle pysicists are not trustworthy.
Link. Same thing all big science.
The ad problem: “I don’t have to pay high rates to reach New York Times readers on The New York Times. I can pay Google or Facebook to find them for me elsewhere for much cheaper prices.”
Link. “Fishing Times” is good teaching example.
“colonization of the Americas between 16,000 and 15,000 cal yr BP”
Link. Hawaii 1,200y ago.
The computation of an organism.
Link. The compiler is the code. This kludge may explain the Fermi Paradox.
“one fifth … to be pure Jacobins”
Link. Jacobins are always with us.
Winnie Mandela – Econ obit
Link. A bad pesrson.
Refactoring Drake equation: “approximately a 10% chance … that another scientifically/technologically advanced civilization exists at the same time as us.”
Link. Usual huge unknowns but I appreciate the exercise.
Skylab fall: “Debris rained down like “a massive hailstorm” that pelted Thornton’s backyard and tin roof.”
Link. I forgot it landed on his home
Murder in Rahway, New Jersey 1887.
Link. Mystery.
Hardest Unicycle Tricks.
Link. There is an intermational standards body.
Honolulu and autonomous vehicles.
Link. As an outsider I’d say place has a horrible car problem. Not clear locals agree though.
The long hard journey for autonomous cars.
Link. Good collection of ways that things will go badly for some time.
Prohibition’s end: “Cullen-Harrison Act … decriminalized beverages below 3.2 percent alcohol”
Link. Today most industry revenue is from people with alcohol problems
“organisation in InfoQube is a graph and nodes (or items in InfoQube parlance) can appear multiple times.”
Link. How do you export your data?
“office visits to primary care doctors declined 18 percent from 2012 to 2016”
Link. Many visits instead to corporate urgent care. Specialist visits increased.
Afghan man who killed Red Cross therapist: “How can I be proud of killing someone who is serving us?”
Link. No explanations.
SSRI withdrawal syndromes?
Link. We need results from that NZ randomized trial.
Turning tags into ontologies
Link. Aperture had hierarchical tags. This topic is deeper and harder than it looks.
An excellent summary of how broken Apple’s iOS parental controls are.
Link. Applies to all vulnerable users, not just children. MDM even more defective. Negligible hope.
Deutsch 80s paper on universal quantum computer: “intuitive explanation of these properties places an intolerable strain on all interpretations of quantum theory other than Everett’s.”
Link. Easier to understand 30y later.
Teaching QM by “generalization of probability theory to allow minus signs.”
Link. I missed this when Aaronson put it out.
Extreme diets may break human-microbiome symbiosis.
Link. Microbiome extends range of foods humans can eat, can evolve to sort-of handle saccharine.
“I was well into my thirties before I stopped considering verbally abusive men more interesting than the nice ones.”
Link. A culture of misogyny requires female support.
H1-B visas: trust Trump or IBM?
Link. In this case Trump’s rhetoric is more correct than IBM’s. His actions may difffer.
Why won’t Trump admin approve MA med experiment?
Link. “The Trump administration may have succumbed to lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry” Corruption.
Synology Based VPN How to.
Link. Ref.
Apple’s frozen product lines
Link. MacBook Air still best machine ever made though
Maybe Cook knows Apple software dev is broken.
Link. Amazon CTO.
Your Data and Omni: privacy policy.
Link. Impeccable
“About half of African-Americans said blacks have a “large disadvantage” in “getting ahead in the United States.”
Link. I’d have guessed 75%
StarLink means SpaceX will domnate.
Link. Musk!
Typeable passwords.
Link. Weird so few discuss this.
Fire Pruitt? His deputies are nearly as bad
Link. Go GOP.
The Stack Overflow Age: chapter one
Link. I was there.
TidBITS summary of MacBook Pro.
Link. Maybe delay is to enable a hybrids/swappable Intel-Apple CPU/GPU. Hold up is then migration off Intel.
Apple turns on Pruitt.
Link. More knives welcomed. Need not be sharp
“black stars and gravastars and quantum stars and what have you require throwing out general relativity in regions where there is no local measure whatsoever that would call for such a breakdown.”
Link. Sabine shreds another paper.
Hawking radiation is not produced at the black hole horizon.
Link. Sabine trusts the equivalence principal.
“There is no effort underway to privatize VA,”
Link. Allowing VHA current health care delivery to die is not technically privatizing health care delivery.
Quantum thermodynamics: “A team of physicists has made heat flow spontaneously from a cold quantum object to a hot one”
Link. This seems promising.
The end of human invention of new chemical syntheses
Link. Don’t worry, YOUR work is safe.
Two cultures: archaeologists vs geneticists.
Link. Archeology has been weirdly unscientific.