Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 7th from 17:03 to 20:16:

• Russell Davies: Real science –
• Zeynep’s Eclectics by zeynep tufekci –
• Can deep learning help solve lip reading? – The Verge –
• Nintendo makes its NES emulator the same way everyone else does – The Verge –
• [toread] Samsung runs full page apology ads over Galaxy Note 7 recall – In an effort to restore some consumer goodwill after the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7, Samsung ran full page apology ads in three major US daily newspapers today. The letters, which appeared
• [toread] All the dongles I bought for my new USB-C MacBook Pro — how annoying will it really be? – The new MacBook Pros have certainly caused an uprising of

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 7th from 08:13 to 15:36:

• Susan B. Anthony’s Grave Will Be Open Until the Polls Close – So many women put "I voted" stickers on Susan B. Anthony’s grave that the cemetery is staying open late tomorrow
• Twitter – @ClickHole please make these charts
• Untitled (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/changeist/issues/reload-reload-29151) – New newsletter out yesterday. Links to make you think of non-Trumpian things.
• Twitter – No single cure for systemic problems, whether disease or misinformation. Need to improve news environment:…
• Twitter – Hating Nazis doesn't make me a democrat it makes me Indiana Jones

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 5th from 22:00 to 21:29:

• Twitter – Wonder what prompted this ????
• [toread] en.m.wikipedia.org –
• Twitter – Can't imagine he does anything but email and Facetime.
• [toread] www.telegraph.co.uk –
• [toread] marco.org –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 5th from 08:17 to 20:17:

• Twitter – Critical theory: "Machines will never think. That's an idea called animism which only silly non-western people beli…
• Twitter – … or do they actually know, deep in their hearts, that none of them are good guys with guns?
• Twitter – hahaha of course the answer is "Trump's campaign itself will claim assassination attempt". Where's my everclear.
• Twitter – How come nobody ever talks about those six-axis Kukas in these scenes? Way more interesting than the skeumorphic hu…
• [toread] I don’t like computers – Welp, I kinda gave up waxing personal on this blog a while ago, but what the hell, why not make an exception once in a while. So in the last couple of years I

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 4th from 17:25 to 22:29:

• [toread] Big Data and Expected Returns – Data.Here's a keynote speech that Commissioner Kara Stein of the Securities and Exchange Commission gave to the "Big Data in Finance Conference" last week, titled "A Vision for Data at the SEC." It's
• [toread] Dear Mike’s New Girlfriend, – Image:
• [toread] www.cnbc.com –
• [toread] ETFs and U5s – ETFs and hedge funds.I was once talking to an exchange-traded fund provider and I suggested what I thought was a clever idea to slightly juice the performance of an index ETF. (I was probably wrong,
• [toread] thereformedbroker.com –
• [toread] slatestarcodex.com –
• [toread] How “Black Mirror” Gets Its Barely Sci-Fi Tech Just Right – If you look at that world, it
• [toread] arxiv.org –
• [toread] www.imore.com –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 3rd from 23:50 to 15:19:

• [toread] The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child – In a time when college graduates return to live under their parents
• Twitter – #ADHDtweet when your meds work but dampen your appetite so you don't realize it's not losing focus but low blood s…
• [toread] English Teacher Re-Titles Classic Poems As Clickbait In Last-Ditch Effort To Trick Students Into Learning – High School for Technology and Communication Ms. Greene
• [toread] When Facebook Cleared Out Thousands of Rooms – On October 13 of this year, Paul McCartney played a Pioneertown, CA roadhouse called Pappy
• [toread] Machine learning, IBM Watson aid in answering benefits questions – Original URL: http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/machine-learning-ibm-watson-aid-in-answering-benefits-questions

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 3rd from 16:55 to 22:26:

• [toread] Apple TV’s New Single Sign-On May Not Work With Your Pay TV Provider – Courtesy of Apple Apple wants to take the hassle out of signing into and authenticating apps on its Apple TV device
• Twitter – Theory: It wasn’t Trump who came back from Russia.
• Twitter – Love this challenge to government teams
• [toread] Design for the present – It
• [toread] Why 2016 is such a terrible year for the Mac – There

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 3rd from 09:37 to 10:36:

• Twitter – Clicks drive revenue & profitability, existence. Its okay if there's countervailing ethics, commitment to journalism
• Twitter – Pokémon Go's next update will introduce daily rewards for playing:
• Pokémon Go XP and Stardust rewards are coming | WIRED UK – Pokémon Go's next update will introduce daily rewards for playing:
• Twitter – NYT will drop the paywall for election
• [toread] Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft | Hacker News –
• [toread] Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft – Slack has always been easy to like. The fast-growing team communication startup had a classic underdog story, with its founders falling ass-backwards into enterprise software following a failed

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 2nd from 14:27 to 00:34:

• [toread] Quanta Magazine – The mere mention of
• [toread] Week 1 – This is our first week where the technology providers chosen by our frontline staff
• [toread] ChildStory moves into deployment – ChildStory has celebrated an important milestone with the commencement of the program
• [toread] what you need to know – Have you heard lots about ChildStory but don
• Twitter – This is a great framing from Facebook
• Twitter – Because Contact wasn't interested, of course
• Twitter – This is a really good piece elucidating the "just because you can do it/should you do it" question, w/real examples.
• Twitter – But were you? I don't believe you!

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 2nd from 10:01 to 11:05:

• Twitter – RT @IYS_Org: Great opportunity to learn what the State of CA is up! #GovTech #cfasummit #InnovateYourState
• Twitter – RT @wryenmeek: Administrative cover is critical to building 21st century government. #courage #cfasummit
• Twitter – QT: We needed to create an envt where it was okay to take a risk.

  ???? CA's Marybel Batjer. #CFASummit

• Twitter – "This system is just too important to fail." — Marybel Batjer, @CAGovOps #cfasummit
• 18 science fiction and fantasy books to pick up this November – The Verge –