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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/29/houston-is-experiencing-its-third-500-year-flood-in-3-years-how-is-that-possible/?utm_term=.c2f2193b07f3

No bathrooms, from 9a

https://www.laduree.fr/en/laduree-new-york-madison.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/climate/how-hurricane-harvey-became-so-destructive.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/realestate/22Living.html

https://github.com/ejfertig/NSFBiosketch

CV of failures, by @jhaushofer ‏https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/Johannes_Haushofer_CV_of_Failures.pdf Funny anti-version of the real thing – but more successful at attracting attention

#3Dprinters…factories of the future
https://www.Economist.com/news/briefing/21724368-recent-advances-make-3d-printing-powerful-competitor-conventional-mass-production-3d digital light synthesis, a software-controlled chem rxn, now economic viable

https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21724369-additive-manufacturing-abandons-economies-scale-3d-printing-transforms-economics

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“Carbon’s printer uses a process called digital light synthesis, which Dr DeSimone describes as “a software-controlled chemical reaction to grow parts”. It starts with a pool of liquid polymer held in a shallow container that has a transparent base. An ultraviolet image of the first layer of the object to be made is projected through the base. This cures (ie, solidifies) a corresponding volume of the polymer, reproducing the image in perfect detail. That now-solid layer attaches itself to the bottom of a tool lowered into the pool from above. The container’s base itself is permeable to oxygen, a substance that inhibits curing. This stops the layer of cured polymer sticking to the base as well, and thus permits the tool to lift that layer slightly. The process is then repeated with a second layer being added to the first from below. And so on. As the desired shape is completed, the tool lifts it out of the container. It is then baked in an oven to strengthen it.

Dr DeSimone says that digital light synthesis overcomes two common problems of 3D printing. First, it is up to 100 times faster than existing polymer-based printers. Second, the baking process knits the layers together more effectively, making for a stronger product and also one that has smooth surfaces, which reduces the need for additional processing.”
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http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n4/full/nmeth.3314.html

Genome seq–independent Identification of #RNAediting http://www.Nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n4/full/nmeth.3314.html Accurate sites from uncorrelated SNV pair, spanned by reads

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Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Lohr, Steve
Citation (MLA): Lohr, Steve. Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else. HarperCollins, 2015. Kindle file.
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Each short quote is preceded by the words “Highlight” & indication of the location in the book.

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Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else
Lohr, Steve
Citation (MLA): Lohr, Steve. Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else. HarperCollins, 2015. Kindle file.
5 The Rise of the Data Scientist
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Back in 2001, William S. Cleveland, then a researcher at Bell Labs, wrote a paper he called an “action plan” for essentially redefining statistics as an engineering task. “The altered field,” he wrote, “will be called ‘data science.’” In his paper, Cleveland, who is now a professor of statistics and computer science at Purdue University, described the contours of this new field. Data science, he said, would touch all disciplines of study and require the development of new statistical models, new computing tools, and educational programs in schools and corporations.
6 Data Storytelling: Correlation and Context
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Tom Mitchell, chairman of the machine-learning department at Carnegie Mellon, offers two similar sentences as an example of what is most challenging to a knowledge system like NELL. “The girl caught the butterfly with the spots.” And, “The girl caught the butterfly with the net.” A human reader, he notes, inherently understands that girls hold nets, and girls are not usually spotted. So, in the first sentence, “spots” is associated with “butterfly,” and in the second, “net” with “girl.” “That’s obvious to a person, but it’s not obvious to a computer,” Mitchell says.
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That seemingly natural division of labor was famously articulated more than a half-century ago by J. C. R. Licklider, a Harvard-trained psychologist and seminal thinker in computing, who sponsored a wave of pioneering computer research in the 1960s as a senior official at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency. In 1960, Licklider wrote “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” a paper that would shape thinking for decades. In it, Licklider stated that the appropriate goal of computing was to “augment” human intelligence rather than substitute for it.
7 Data Gets Physical
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The precision agriculture pilot was a joint effort of two companies, IBM and E. & J. Gallo Winery. And it was in good part a collaboration between two men: Hendrik Hamann, a German physicist and researcher at IBM, and Dokoozlian, a native Californian who grew up on a small family vineyard and is Gallo’s chief plant scientist.
8 The Yin and Yang of Behavior and Data
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By now, hundreds of thousands of Nest thermostats have collected enough data and Nest’s algorithms have done enough analysis, based on their patterns of activity and energy use, to determine that households can be grouped into four kinds: families with young children; families with older children; empty nesters; and roommates. Within a week after it is installed, the Nest thermostat has observed enough to know what group a household fits into.
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Walmart, for example, is renowned for overhauling its supply chain with statistical science.
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Haydock speaks of a new “genomics
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of business” in the future that will produce a previously unimagined “level of detail in looking at people and companies.” Today, it seems an aspirational analogy, but that is the direction things are heading. 10 The Prying Eyes of Big Data
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Freewheeling picture taking was sometimes unwelcome in other public spaces. Highlight(pink) – Page 183 · Location 2516
Kodak cameras were briefly banned at the Washington Monument, according to historian and author David Lindsay. In an editorial, the Hartford Courant bemoaned the loss of privacy as Kodak cameras multiplied.
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1960s, a very different technological advance challenged common notions of privacy—the mainframe computer. That’s when the federal government started putting tax returns into the giant computers, and consumer credit bureaus began assembling databases containing the personal financial information on millions of Americans.
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Today, our concept of privacy is under threat once again—this time by the technologies of big data. The response, as in the past, will likely be a step-by-step evolution that involves changing some attitudes and changing some rules. As those Kodak cameras spread, for example, people became more comfortable having them around and with snapshot picture-taking in public.
Highlight(pink) – Page 187 · Location 2562
“There is a fundamental gap,” Felten says. “Consumers don’t know what is happening, so they can’t make informed decisions.”
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Felten compares the current state of affairs to the digital equivalent of attending a conference with name badges. But instead of names, the people are wearing badges that say, “I’m a diabetic” or “I’m deeply in debt.” “That’s not considered personally identifiable information,” he observes. “But it’s much more sensitive information than your name.” Highlight(pink) – Page 188 · Location 2582
These companies, like Acxiom, Epsilon, and Experian, compile extensive dossiers on millions of individuals and families, tapping data sources that include public records, consumer purchases in physical and online stores, and Web browsing histories.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-search-for-anti-aging-secrets-starts-with-the-blood-of-600-estonians?mbid=social_tw_sci