Link. We would need to survey non-college to know.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
“court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu”
Link. Roberts makes his reputation.
Singlish, a creole of Singapore
Link. English officially most common speech
Aerial war drones everywhere.
Link. Inevitable.
Alcoholism physiology: GAT-3 protein levels and GABA.
Link. Looks like a breakthrough
“ironclad assurance that quantum computers exist in a different computational realm than classical computers”
Link. Did Aaronson comment on this?
“David Foster Wallace defined a harmful addiction as something that offered itself as the solution to the problems that it was causing”
Link. Memorable.
Migratory birds and the cost of immune systems
Link. Brilliant question.
SF goes Norway: “… where nearly every restaurant he and his wife visited relied on counter service”
Link. Pay more attention to Norway.
“when financial pain threatens to become consequential, public companies are obliged to publicly quantify it.”
Link. They have to confront the GOP
“tech companies to believe they would be on their own to counter election interference.”
Link. Trump appointees not cooperative
Mass Unsubscribe Mailchimp
Link. “directly at compliance@mailchimp.com with the email address you would like to remove from all lists”
Derek Lowe’s amyloid despair channeled into a smashing story.
Link. Stop the Alzheimers amyloid trials. Do something new.
Hints that Trumpista now running a rogue police force.
Link. “ICE and CBP … unions both endorsed and aggressively campaigned for Trump”
Britannica Insights: chrome plugin for truer facts.
Link.
Paying for chronic illness: “social and medical services, home improvements like wheelchair ramps, transportation to doctor’s offices and home delivery of hot meals”
Link. What about ACA?
Should the powerful face social consequences for their brutality?
Link. WaPo disgusts.
Right to Try: “The customers are going to die, anyway. Why should they die with their money as well?”
Link. Amway arrives.
Physics and the failure of the beautiful: “In Sabine’s book, Lost In Math, this discomfort is now made accessible to the rest of us.”
Link. It worked so well. Then it didn’t. Mourning for a lost world.
Alzheimer’s and HHV6A.
Link. Ok, this IS interesting. Also, note old brains have lots of viral load
Download Images from Google or Microsoft Word Docs.
Link. Save as HTLM.
Mathematica: 30 years of software and data format continuity.
Link. Wolfram’s massive ego is not unjustified. This continuity of vision may require a single living controlling human.
Presentation Apps: mostly $100-$200 a year
Link. Wonder when Google will end its free apps. SW costs rising fast
Offline Google translations
Link. Google announced so much this year
Google family support now crushing Apple.
Link. But is it age limited? Need coverage for vulnerable adult, including early dementia
“Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana”
Link. Good move
NYT article on abuse via smart home doesn’t mention changing the router password
Link. Or buy a new router. This is a crap article
LA has a murderous car problem
Link. Hit and run isn’t a sure thing any more.
“white evangelicals … went from being the least likely to the most likely to agree that a candidate’s personal immorality had nothing to do with public service”
Link. The fall of white evangelicals is at least amusing.
Google account privacy controls: Android only.
Link. Web/iOS “later this year”. Cute.
Google Knowledge Panel for identity management
Link. Watch this space.
“Apple’s decision to sell PowerSchool back in 2006 looks like one of the worst decisions in K–12″
Link. Took lots of blunders to lose K-12
Apple keyboard fail: “I still wouldn’t want to buy a new MacBook Pro now.”
Link. How did this ever get into production?
Bike org: “automated driving systems should first have to pass a “vision test” as well … proving their ability to recognize and respond to people bicycling,walking and using wheel chairs, before they are on community street”
Link. Write your Senator to get this in the bill.
Trump world: the view from inside the federal bureaucracy.
Link. Many opportunities to put sand in the gears.
George Wills: Vote against the GOP this November
Link. I knew the “wah-wah“ would not do well. Wills has a son with Downs.
Ultrasound gets lots of use cases in low income nations.
Link. Some of these may trickle back to US.
Ultrasound gets lots of use cases in low income nations.
Link. Some of these may trickle back to US.
CNN should be worried about new boss John Stankey.
Link. A bad start.
Driving with autism – average performance after slower start.
Link. About 1/3 with diagnosis and normal IQ drive.
Autism rate … falls 18%.
Link. Depends on the definition. DSM 5 grandfather clause is a compromise.
Immigration and income.
Link. Visas reduce demand for US family physicians.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are associated with reduced cardiovascular risks.
Link. HCQ effect on clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential?
California lawmaker corruption earns net wrath
Link. A useful idiot for AT&T
Physics of dripping faucet sound: air cavity
Link. “add a bit of dish soap to whatever container is catching the water drips”
“problem of leaking uninitialized kernel memory to user space … is deeply rooted in the nature of the C programming language”
Link. Phew. Was worried would be hard to fix.
AirPower and Removing the Lightning Port
Link. Why won’t Ive retire?
From compassionate conservatism to New Cruelty.
Link. GOP base is keen on torture. Civilization relies on a minority of humans; need a name for that minority. “The Wise” is pretentious, “The Sentients” is caustic.
Roseola Infantum and Alzheimers: correlation?
Link. Seems farfetched, but we are at ground zero with Alzheimers.
Oncologists lying to get treatments
Link. Autism surge is milder version of this