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Happy July 4th! Made a "Big Sort" for big data (animated algorithm) to celebrate.
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Apt title, @WSJ :-)
U.S. Chess Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times, Probe Finds
The American teenager in the chess cheating scandal likely received illegal assistance in more than 100 games, an investigation by Chess.com has found on.wsj.com/3CuRt1B
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I'm very proud to see the release of the AI Bill of Rights (BoR) today. It all started with a vision articulated by @AlondraNelson46. And is the product of so much hard work and collaboration among so many within @WHOSTP, and within the government.
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.@evanasmith: Why was water infrastructure a priority in the infrastructure bill?
@PeteButtigieg: “Mostly because you need water to live.” #TribFest22
How will CDC pick vaccines (for virus variants) for Fall? Fascinating tradeoffs!
I get lots of questions about what vaccines are coming & when and how they will work against BA.4 and 5, the newest variants.
This episode explores thanks to @dr_kkjetelina & @apoorva_nyc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Edsger Dijkstra was born on this day in 1930. He received the 1972 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to programming as a high intellectual challenge & for eloquent insistence & practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly.bit.ly/3nVC3ux
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It is meaningless because social media is not adopted in a vacuum. It’s like asking whether car adoption made roads more dangerous. Maybe, maybe not; but cars reshaped everything about transportation (and neighborhoods and societies). There’s no way to set up a proper comparison.
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Research on the harms of social media — mental health, disinformation, radicalization, echo chambers… — has gone astray by asking the wrong question: "has social media worsened the problem?" It's a tempting but meaningless question that leads to dangerously wrong policy advice.
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Amazing drone footage of a massive school of rays off Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
Credit: dronesharkapp
Raincircles!
Rainbows are actually... circles
The centre is directly opposite the position of the sun in the sky, this is called the antisolar point
A full circle is visible from a higher vantage point, usually a plane and is sometimes called a ‘glory’ 1/🧵
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Most fun as an engineer? Got water leak sensor to 0%!
Quite zen to track and fix big leaks in heaters, crawl space, and flaps. TIL, water leaks are too common, esp with the temperature changes.
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Iowa Liquor Sales dataset wins! Ultra-popular this year for cs145.stanford.edu final projects, especially with JOINs on demographics.
Should I be worried? In the past years, students picked COVID, CMS, climate change, and genetics data sets.
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NIH Awards technology and return of result service contract to @Color for the 1 Million-Person @AllofUsResearch Study.
Huge step in the population-level use of precision medicine and an honor for @Color to help make it happen.
forbes.com/sites/leahrosenba…
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Amazing sets of data .. so you can be an informed critic
ourworldindata.org/
