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Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:57AM
from the insidehighered.com dept.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/07/17/steven-pinkers-aid-jeffrey-epsteins-legal-defense-renews-criticism-increasingly

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Who guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for new approach

Posted by ehudla on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:58PM
from the bmj.com dept.

https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4137

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An Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @07:56AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/business/economy/amazon-warehouse-labor-robots.html

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Why we disagree about human nature

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:31AM
from the histhum.com dept.

http://www.histhum.com/what-common-nature-can-exist/

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How much tech employees are donating to Democratic presidential candidates – Vox

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:20PM
from the vox.com dept.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/26/18759542/tech-employees-presidential-candidate-donations-2020-election

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Re:ProPublica Data Institute (2017) on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:51PM (#20187601)

2018 materials (which seem identical) are available here: https://github.com/propublica/data-institute-2018

The 2019 course is next month, but the deadline to apply has passed.

ProPublica Data Institute (2017)

Posted by ehudla on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:38PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/data-institute-2017

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Data Dynamos Do Their Jobs

Posted by ehudla on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:19PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/reader-center/data-reporting-spreadsheets.html

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I Was Slijper’s Goat – Ehud Lamm – Medium

Posted by ehudla on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:41AM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@ehud.lamm/i-was-slijpers-goat-d79e59d32ac6

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How Big Tech Funds the Debate on AI Ethics

Posted by ehudla on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:29AM
from the newstatesman.com dept.

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/technology/2019/06/how-big-tech-funds-debate-ai-ethics

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Re:Ask HN: Urgent – (how) can I access US PhD theses online for free? on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:27AM (#20114857)

Email the author.

Collection of Deep Learning Models for TensorFlow/PyTorch in Jupyter Notebooks

Posted by ehudla on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:24AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/rasbt/deeplearning-models

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Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up as a Data Scientist

Posted by ehudla on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:21AM
from the kdnuggets.com dept.

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/05/3-machine-learning-books-helped-level-up-data-scientist.html

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Robust.ai launches to build an industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots

Posted by ehudla on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:15AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/robust-ai-launches-to-build-an-industrial-grade-cognitive-platform-for-robots/

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The smartest people in AI teamed up to make robots

Posted by ehudla on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:05AM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/06/06/5-of-the-smartest-people-in-ai-teamed-up-to-make-awesome-robots/

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Free R Reading Material

Posted by ehudla on Saturday May 25, 2019 @04:08PM
from the committedtotape.shinyapps.io dept.

https://committedtotape.shinyapps.io/freeR/

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Neural Net Worth – June 2019 – Communications of the ACM

Posted by ehudla on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:56PM
from the cacm.acm.org dept.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/6/236990-neural-net-worth/fulltext

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CACM Jun 2019 – 2018 ACM Turing Award

Posted by ehudla on Saturday May 25, 2019 @03:49PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn589zeMij4

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Professor Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility (Live Talk)

Posted by ehudla on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:48AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOApAHhKCxQ&feature=youtu.be

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Books on Philosophy of Science – Five Books Expert Recommendations

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @08:30AM
from the fivebooks.com dept.

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/philosophy-of-science-stathis-psillos/

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Maximizing likelihood is equivalent to minimizing KL-Divergence

Posted by ehudla on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:11PM
from the wiseodd.github.io dept.

https://wiseodd.github.io/techblog/2017/01/26/kl-mle/

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Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

Posted by ehudla on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:42PM
from the howwegettonext.com dept.

https://howwegettonext.com/silicon-valley-thinks-everyone-feels-the-same-six-emotions-38354a0ef3d7

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My Childhood in a Cult

Posted by ehudla on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:58PM
from the newyorker.com dept.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-in-a-cult

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Precision and Recall

Posted by ehudla on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:56PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall

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Public Statement of Support for Julia Angwin – Amie Stepanovich – Medium

Posted by ehudla on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:52PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@astepanovich/public-statement-of-support-for-julia-angwin-7999a97be2e2

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Supercharge Your Cognition

Posted by ehudla on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:08AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/ehud/status/1120615489913458689

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Brain probably is a computer, whatever that means – Aeon Essays

Posted by ehudla on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:22AM
from the aeon.co dept.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-probably-is-a-computer-whatever-that-means

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The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention (2014)

Posted by ehudla on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:30PM
from the lastwordonnothing.com dept.

https://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2014/04/29/the-pocket-guide-to-bullshit-prevention/

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How to Call B.S. On Big Data: A Practical Guide

Posted by ehudla on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:02PM
from the newyorker.com dept.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-call-bullshit-on-big-data-a-practical-guide

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Re:E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:13PM (#19373102)

What programming language is used for the avionics?