-12-13 Rachael Levy
Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-1-scrubs-its-image-online-11576233000
2019-10-10 Rasmus’ Toy Blog
Simple reviews of 22 low cost virtual private server providers.
2019-11-25 firmai / Derek Snow
“A curated list of repositories with fully functional click-and-run colab notebooks with data, code and description. The code in these repositories are in Python unless otherwise stated.”
Some of the Google Colaboratory Notebooks listed use artificial neural networks. Google Colaboratory Notebooks are Jupyter notebooks that run Python or other code on Google’s cloud for free.
2019-05-03 Prof. Thomas Huckle
An interview with Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, a legend in VFX and CGI, who has worked closely with Ed Catmull, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates.
https://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpodcast320-dr-alvy-ray-smith-the-godfather-of-cgi/
https://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxpodcast320-dr-alvy-ray-smith-the-godfather-of-cgi/
2019-05-11 Matt Levine
[A] Reddit user called MoonYachts who claims to have gotten 250x leverage, putting in $4,000 and turning it into a $1,000,000 stock position. You are not supposed to be able to do this; normal stock market games do not allow you to bet a million dollars by putting up only $4,000 of your own. (“We’re aware of the isolated situations and communicating directly with customers,” said a Robinhood spokesperson.)
2019-10-31 All Things Considered, Jon Hamilton
The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
2018-07-07 Alexander Lee
The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots, but it was a royal seal of approval that set it on the path to global domination.
2019 Autumn, Heather Mac Donald
Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.