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Via LLRX –Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
Book Riot: “The rise in book censorship across the United States is reminiscent of the fascist tendencies throughout history. While book banners and censorship supporters paint their concerns as specific to contemporary issues, it’s a common way to consolidate power. The history of Nazi book burning is one of the most obvious antecedents to the …
Lawrence-Dill CJ, Allscheid RL, Boaitey A, Bauman T, Buckler ES IV, Clarke JL, et al. (2022) Ten simple rules to ruin a collaborative environment. PLoS Comput Biol 18(4): e1009957. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009957: “Trigger warning: Here, you will find a bit of satire, written from the not-so-funny, real experiences of the authors who have been involved in “team …
SK Lim: “I built redditle.com for those of us who append “reddit” to our Google searches. Reddit search isn’t great but it’s improving! In the meantime, some of us still use Google to search Reddit, hence https://redditle.com. Or for some of us, because Google’s results are increasingly filled with clickbait, “reddit” has been a cheatcode …
The New York Times: “OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future…GPT-3 belongs to a category of deep learning known as a large language model, a complex neural net that has been trained on a titanic data set …
Center for Data Innovation: “Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, has created a visualization depicting changes in temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2021. For each year, a spiral is drawn representing the degree to which temperatures increased or decreased in each month relative to a base period of 1951 to 1980. …
The New York Times: “After years on the decline, Barnes & Noble’s sales are up, its costs are down — and the same people who for decades saw the superchain as a supervillain are celebrating its success. In the past, the book-selling empire, with 600 outposts across all 50 states, was seen by many readers, …
Kottke.org: “Building on the lessons of World War II, Ukrainians are trying to save their art and other important cultural artifacts from destruction during Russia’s invasion. When an invader repeatedly tries to deny the cultural distinction of a people for decades and even centuries, like Russia has done with Ukraine, saving buildings and statues and …
PopSci – It’s helpful to think of ourselves as older people in training: “The following is an excerpt adapted from Breaking the Code: How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live by Becca Levy. Although age beliefs are assimilated and reinforced over our lifetimes, they are also malleable: I have changed …
Vice/Motherboard: “Nitrogen is one of the most important elements for life on Earth: It’s the main component of the air we breathe, a key building block for proteins, and the magic ingredient in agricultural fertilizers that are essential to feeding the global human population. But in recent decades, experts across a range of different disciplines …
Vox: “The first signs of the most recent Covid-19 waves have often been detected in our sewers instead of nasal swabs. But in the future, the potential for human waste to tell us about what is happening with our community’s health could extend far beyond the novel coronavirus. “This has been its coming-out party. We’ve …
Wired: “From Wi-Fi extenders to simple wall brackets, there’s always something you can do to improve your internet connection at home. ”