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“This weekend, The New York Times published the tax returns that Donald Trump had filed with New York, New Jersey and Connecticut where the Republican candidate for president claimed nearly a billion dollar business loss for that year. Although the Times said the experts it had consulted did not believe the records suggested anything improper, …
Marrall, R. M. (2016). Assistance animals in the library: How one academic library developed Best Practices. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 56(1), pp. 8-13. (Peer/Editor Reviewed) “Effectively addressing concerns about assistance animals in any library setting is often problematic due to a lack of awareness about assistance animals in general, which then leads to uncertainty …
Bazley, William J. and Korniotis, George M. and Samanez-Larkin, Gregory R., Better Together: The Effects of Experience and Knowledge on Investor Behavior (September 7, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2846504 “We examine the dynamics of financial knowledge and investment experience on the equity portfolio decisions of U.S. investors. We find that prior portfolio choices …
Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work? doi: 10.1177/1529100616661983,Psychological Science in the Public Interest, October 2016 vol. 17 no. 3 103-186 “In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus statement from an international group …
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: “Welcome to the FOIA Wiki! This free and collaborative resource on the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, is provided by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, with contributions from The FOIA Project at TRAC, MuckRock, FOIA Mapper, and users like you. → …
Fobes: “The best public schools in the country are not just limited to those on the nation’s coasts. They can be found all across the country, and five schools from the heartland of the country make this year’s cut: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (No. 7), University of Wisconsin, Madison (No. 10) University of Illinois, …
Google’s Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation (Submitted on 26 Sep 2016) arXiv:1609.08144v1 [cs.CL] for this version) Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to …
Gov2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Institutions and Their Legal Text – John J. Nay (Submitted on 21 Sep 2016 (v1), last revised 25 Sep 2016 (this version, v2)) “We compare policy differences across institutions by embedding representations of the entire legal corpus of each institution and the vocabulary shared across all corpora into a continuous …
Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges, GAO-16-659SP: Published: Sep 20, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 20, 2016. “Forum discussions considered the implications of new data-related technologies and developments that are revolutionizing the basic three-step innovation process in the figure below. As massive amounts of varied data become available in many …
Beta Edition, via the National Security Archive – “The Cyber Library contains all primary-source materials gathered by the Project across the full range of cyber security issues. New materials will be added on a regular basis. The [content] isting is chronological. To search for specific items, use [the search engine provided].
A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures “For the past ten years, we’ve been busy rummaging around the internet and adding courses to an ever-growing list of Free Online Courses, which now features 1,200+ courses from top universities. Let’s give you the quick overview: The list lets you download …
Via Internet Archive – “The Political TV Ad Archive collects political ads in the 2016 election. In addition to tracking airings across key primary states, the collection includes ads that may air elsewhere or exclusively on social media.” Searchable by sponsor, keyword or candidate. See also Internet Archive data fuels journalists’ analyses of how TV …
