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Ecological Marine Units – GIS Provides Better Understanding of Ocean Ecosystems: “A healthy ocean can reduce poverty, combat hunger, limit the impacts of climate change, and improve the global economy. To achieve these ideals and support ocean sustainability, it is necessary to have a baseline method for understanding of the ocean’s ecosystems and a framework to detect …
Boyd, William, Environmental Law, Big Data, and the Torrent of Singularities (Novemeber 7, 2016). 64 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 544 (2016); University of Colorado at Boulder, Economics Department Paper No. 16-9. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2866570 “How will big data impact environmental law in the near future? This Essay imagines one possible future for environmental law in …
Judging a Book By its Cover, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida. [v1] Fri, 28 Oct 2016. arXiv:1610.09204 “Book covers communicate information to potential readers, but can the same information be learned by computers? We propose a method of using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict the genre of a book based on the visual …
Another source of election coverage here at Politico.com and Politico’s 2016 Presidential Election Results
CRS report via FAS – The Terrorist Screening Database and Preventing Terrorist Travel, Jerome P. Bjelopera, Specialist in Organized Crime and Terrorism, Bart Elias, Specialist in Aviation Policy, Alison Siskin, Specialist in Immigration Policy, November 7, 2016. “After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the federal government developed a unified regimen to identify and …
CRS report via FAS – Contingent Election of the President and Vice President by Congress: Perspectives and Contemporary Analysis, Thomas H. Neale, Specialist in American National Government, November 3, 2016. The 12th Amendment to the Constitution requires that presidential and vice presidential candidates gain “a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed” in order …
Two of America’s greatest musicians- listen and fall in love with music that will stay with you a lifetime: A century-defining album’s improbable genesis “…The first of three successful collaborations between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, “Ella and Louis” is nearly perfect. It is one of those works of art — and they don’t come along …
tubefilter: “This year, YouTube saw unprecedented success for its live streams of the three presidential debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Now, with those events in its rearview mirror, the video site is preparing the broadcast the results of the election itself. On November 8th, six channels — NBC News, PBS, MTV News, Bloomberg, …
Andrew Tsou, First Monday, Vol. 21 No. 11 , November 7, 2016: – “Reddit, known as “the front page of the Internet,” has been one of the most widely visited Web sites since its inception in 2005. As a social networking site it is unique in that the personal relationships between its users are considered …
Where to vote- search, find and cast your ballot How to vote Who’s on your ballot [in English and Spanish] “When the polls close on Election Day on November 8, you’ll also be able to find real-time US election results integrated right into your Google searches in over 30 languages around the world.”
“Politics on social media – as in real life – isn’t always pretty. In an election season marked by partisan animosity, a recent Pew Research Center report found that many social media users describe their political encounters online as stressful and frustrating, and nearly four-in-ten have taken steps to block or minimize the political content …
“In fiscal year 2016, which ended on September 30, the federal budget deficit totaled $587 billion— $148 billion more than the shortfall recorded in 2015. Measured as a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit increased to 3.2 percent in 2016, up from 2.5 percent in 2015. About $41 billion of that …
