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The very strange way a horse STD is kept from the US.

Posted on August 12, 2016 by jgordon

Link. “they love their job. They do like the boys.”

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China wealth management programs sound like trillion dollar ponzi schemes.

Posted on August 12, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Aiiieeee.

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Micoblogging with Cimba and RDF.

Posted on August 12, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I’m curious.

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News addict favors Newsify.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Reeder is getting flakier; needs an update.

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Obama routes around pathologic House GOP to keep Zika vaccine work going.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. House GOP is Trump ready.

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The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Lots of detail. UMN bit of a villain. I remember HyperG in BYTE.

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Comet Swift-Tuttle will end most life on earth. One day.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Assuming no high tech sentient interested in moving it.

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All the Apple databases of your products.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Apple failed relational database 101 in the 90s and never remediated.

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Greenland sharks “do not reach sexual maturity until they’re about 150”

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Live about 400 years. Age verrrryyy slowwwlllyyyy.

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Simplenote clients go open source.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I think this is bad news.

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Old Olympians ride things.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Horses obviously, but cyclists in 30s.

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Marshall: GOP will remain “white ethno-nationalist party”

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Says reformocons will lose. He has good prediction record.

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Greek Crisis: the IMF screwed up. Repeatedly.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. None so blind as will not see.

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NYT dedicates entire magazine issue to collapse of Arab lands.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I’d prefer an academic consensus with factor weighting.

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Diet and exercise studies: “can get you any result you want in any observational data set”

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Most diet research should stop, but I think exercise can still be studied.

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NYT: 36 Hours in Minneapolis

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Good choices.

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Election 2016 is about the 2nd Quintile and Trump.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. T2Q.

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Bottom 20% omitted from campaign policy.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. A root cause of Trumpism is ignored. Again. Still.

Update 8/11/16: Actually, this makes sense. The bottom 20% don’t vote. Trumpism isn’t the bottom 40%. It is the 2nd quintile: 20-40%. T2Q for short. 

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Force restart needed to free iphone storage?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Cache purge? Dumb.

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iTunes losing star ratings.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Exasperating but expected.

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A conservative blasts his appalachian culture.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Suspect tabula rosa fallacy, but culture matters.

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Florida 2000: 97,488 votes for Nader, Gore lost by hundreds.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Lest we forget there are exactly two choices.

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Partisan declarations in baseball and politics are similar.

Posted on August 11, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Talk is cheap, and in baseball harmless.

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Science and the amazing work of non-profits.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Academia is a mess.

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Mathematica 11: “robust symbolic way to represent food”

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Wolfram Language rather. It does sound awesome.

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“devoted actors”: natural cannon fodder.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. ISIS or whatever, built to die for a cause.

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First American Woman to Win at Olympics.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. “the plaque listed Abbott as the winner of the ladies’ singles Olympic 1900 golf championship”

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NYT summarizes recent Justice Dept police investigations.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Disappointing because they don’t drill down to causes – such as quotas and pay-for-performance.

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Another industry guy rants on Apple’s weird tangents.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Cook was wrong choice.

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MSFT has free download Word for DOS.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Run in XP VM for really old file translation.

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Modern versions of Word for Mac can’t open old Word file formats.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Bit shocking really. My Word 95/97 Windows docs can’t be opened.

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Those moments when you feel the walls of reality fall away.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Surfing the multiverse.

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Exercising with autism: working within the energy budget.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Distraction and excitement key. Fitness develops slowly but steadily.

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Disabled adults: the wait lists for services get longer, the parents get older.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Deinstitutionalization pushed costs onto families.

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Nashville considers a workaround for comcast’s utility pole blocking of Google Fiber.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Prying one pole at a time from Comcast’s steely claws.

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Why Walmart can’t compete with Amazon.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Amazon counterfeit problem result of squeezing the makers?

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Amazon’s logistics and delivery strategy: drones for real.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Bezos is a genuine phenomena.

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Another essay on the LHC false alarm particle.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Particle physics “odds” reporting is broken. Positive predictive value instead?

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Lowe defends Opdivo immunotherapy against a sincere NYT op-ed piece.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. A respectful and compassionate correction.

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Detailed and readable review of state of AI NLP.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. “words can be represented as mathematical vectors” is 1980s Quebec innovation. Lots of caution mixed with some excitement.

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I’m switching from Pinner.app to Pushpin.app (Pinboard iOS clients)

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Since 9.3.3 Pinner share sheet unstable, app not being updated.

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Douthat: “cynical interpretations of the conservative establishment have been vindicated”

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Reborn as militant reform conservative.

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Blocking Google fiber: Comcast owns utility poles in some cities.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Eminent domain? Wireless can’t do it all.

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Airline screwups: they have outsourced core operations.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Save money, sacrifice reliability. Profitable.

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Apple screws up new education market iPad management.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Apple ID FUBAR. Bet he is right about database. Too typical.

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Ads for new cancer drugs that are not useful.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Despicable.

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Dog fertility study finds PCBs and like in dog food.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by jgordon

Link. China.

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China-net is not internet.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Companies can’t do both.

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NRA responds to Trump’s assassination call.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Doubling down may be unwise.

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Pay-for-Performance behind Baltimore police abuse of black men.

Posted on August 9, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Works same way in education and medicine.

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