Archive for October, 2019

TIME: 39-year-old A.G. Sulzberger has turned the ‘New York Times’ into a beacon of hope — and profit

Monday, October 14th, 2019

https://time.com/5696968/a-g-sulzberger-new-york-times/

39-year-old A.G. Sulzberger has turned the ‘New York Times’ into a beacon of hope — and profit
ON A SUNDAY MORNING IN THE SUMMER OF 2018, ARTHUR Gregg Sulzberger, a member of the fifth generation of the family that controls the New York Times, was changing the diaper of a member of the sixth, when the phone rang. Another mess: A few days earlier President Trump had invited Sulzberger, in his capacity as Times publisher, to a private meeting at the White House. Now a Trump tweet had not only made the meeting public but also asserted it had produced an unlikely meeting of minds: “Spent much

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Why Is the World So Loud? – The Atlantic

Monday, October 14th, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end-of-silence/598366/

Positive-unlabeled convolutional neural networks for particle picking in cryo-electron micrographs

Monday, October 14th, 2019

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0575-8

Published: 07 October 2019

Positive-unlabeled convolutional neural networks for particle picking in cryo-electron micrographs

Tristan Bepler, Andrew Morin, Micah Rapp, Julia Brasch, Lawrence Shapiro, Alex J. Noble & Bonnie Berger

Nature Methods (2019)

Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 – The New York Times

Monday, October 14th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/books/harold-bloom-dead.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Best document scanning apps with OCR for iPhone | iMore

Sunday, October 13th, 2019

https://www.imore.com/best-document-scanner-apps-iphone

Rich countries must start planning for a cashless future – The dash off cash

Sunday, October 13th, 2019

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/01/rich-countries-must-start-planning-for-a-cashless-future

Best drinks for acid reflux: Tips, best practices, and drinks to avoid

Sunday, October 13th, 2019

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314886.php

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Coffee, tea, and soda contain caffeine, and this chemical aggravates acid reflux. Switching to decaffeinated versions of these drinks can help minimize the symptoms.
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Edwin Conklin – Wikipedia

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Conklin

Preformationism – Wikipedia

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preformationism

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In the history of biology, preformationism (or preformism) is a formerly-popular theory that … Harvey famously asserted, for example, that ex ovo omnia—all animals come from eggs. Because of this assertion in particular, Harvey is often
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Personalized precision education and intimate data analytics | code acts in education

Saturday, October 12th, 2019

https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/personalized-precision-education/

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The word ‘precision’ has become a synonym for the application of data to the analysis and treatment of a wide range of phenomena. ‘Precision medicine’ describes the use of detailed patient information to individualize treatment and prevention based on genes, environment and lifestyle, while ‘precision agriculture’ has become an entire field of R&D focused on ‘engineering technology, sensor systems, computational techniques, positioning systems and control systems for site-specific application’ in the farming sector.

….termed ‘precision electioneering.’ Data-driven precision is therefore both a source of scientific certainty and of controversy and contestation.

Emerging interests in ‘precision education’ foresee the concerted use of learner data for purposes of implementing individualized
educational practices and ‘targeted learning.’ As precision education has been described on the Blog on Learning and Development (BOLD): “}}