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Inside Daily Brief: “GOOD NEWS: A longhorn bull that is believed to have escaped from a slaughterhouse will move into an animal sanctuary. The animal made headlines when it was spotted on the train tracks at Newark Penn Station in New Jersey last month. NJ Transit reported delays for rail services between New Jersey and …
Martel, C., Allen, J., Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2023). Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231190388 “Identifying successful approaches for reducing the belief and spread of online misinformation is of great importance. Social media companies currently rely largely on professional fact-checking as their primary mechanism for identifying …
The New York Times [read free]: “Reading Rhythms bills itself as a series of “reading parties,” where guests read silently for an hour and chat with strangers about the books they brought. (Just don’t call it a book club.)”
“Color Lisa is a curated list of color palettes based on masterpieces of the worlds greatest artists. Each palette was painstakingly created by color obsessed designers, artists, museum curators, and masters of color theory. Palettes are constantly being added to help keep your designs colorful and fresh. Color Lisa was made by Ryan McGuire, a …
The Atlantic [read free]: “You are currently logged on to the largest version of the internet that has ever existed. By clicking and scrolling, you’re one of the 5 billion–plus people contributing to an unfathomable array of networked information—quintillions of bytes produced each day. The sprawl has become disorienting. Some of my peers in the …
Mapping the Unequal Distribution of Global Precipitation – On average, nearly one meter (39 inches) of rain or snow falls on the Earth in a year. However, differences in latitude, winds, changes in the Earth’s surface, and the planet’s tilt, make for an unequal distribution of global precipitation. Cartographer Perrin Remonté uses data from Chelsea …
XKCD: label as many US states as you can on this blank map – Do you miss the pen and pencil grade school exercises from geography and social studies classes? I still remember how to spell state names – such as Mississippi, and the number of days in each month, using the memory tools we …
“How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 300 case studies from 80+ companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems. Navigation tips. You can play around with the database by filtering case studies by …
PrpPublica: “In early January 2000, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was at a five-star beach resort in Sea Island, Georgia, hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. After almost a decade on the court, Thomas had grown frustrated with his financial situation, according to friends. He had recently started raising his young grandnephew, and Thomas’ …
The Guardian: “The influential user review site has suffered a year of controversies, from cancelled book deals to review-bombing, and exposed a dark side to the industry.”
Data is Plural by David Johnston: “This Power BI report presents data on the recent surge in thefts of Kia and Hyundai vehicles across various cities in the U.S. The report is based on car theft data collected from 43 cities, highlighting the number of thefts occurring each month and specifically identifying how many of …
In Custodia Legis: “The following is a guest post by Ryan Gale, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is an undergraduate student studying philosophy and theology at The Catholic University of America.The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government’s establishment of a religion and protects …