linkstream2 microblog

https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-photos-and-google-drive/

https://support.fullcontact.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005956468-Sync-Contacts-Across-Multiple-Google-Accounts

https://www.howtogeek.com/265006/how-to-transfer-contacts-between-google-accounts/

http://support.smartcloud.ie/support/solutions/articles/3000050772-how-to-share-google-contacts-with-other-gmail-users

Tic tac toe
Number Genie
Hangman

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/games-you-can-play-with-google-home/

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“Let me get the most important question out of the way: is AlphaFold’s advance really significant, or is it more of the same? I would characterize their advance as roughly two CASPs in one (really ~1.8x). Historically progress in CASP has ebbed and flowed, with a ten year period of almost absolute stagnation, finally broken by the advances seen at CASP11 and 12, which were substantial. What we’ve seen this year is roughly twice as much as the recent average rate of advance (measured in mean ΔGDT_TS from CASP10 to CASP12—GDT_TS is a measure of prediction accuracy ranging from 0 to 100, with 100 being perfect.) As I will explain later, there may actually be a good reason for this “two CASPs” effect, in terms of the underlying methodological breakdown. This can be seen not only in the CASP-over-CASP
improvement, but also in terms of the size of the gap between AlphaFold and the second best performer, which is unusually large by CASP standards. Below is a plot that depicts this.”
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https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp13-what-just-happened/

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““The only thing that matters is the future,” he told me after the civil trial was settled. “I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I guess—the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.” “))

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal-googles-intellectual-property

https://www.google.com/android/find

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship-that-made-google-huge

Thought @RobertFService’s news piece had a good angle on this: AlphaFold won a lot but by small margins
https://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/12/google-s-deepmind-aces-protein-folding Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding CC @wgibson

https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7571892?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en

Looks like it’s hard to like a G suite acct to the voice asst

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“The Advanced Protection Program incorporates a physical security key (a small USB or wireless device that costs around $25) to protect against phishing. The key, which participants need to buy themselves, uses public-key cryptography and digital signatures. Without the key, even someone with your password would be unable to access your account. Advanced Protection limits your Google data access to only Google apps and adds additional safeguards in the account recovery process to prevent someone from social engineering their way into your account. It also performs additional scans on files and attachments to ensure no malware is piggybacking on the download.”
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#Google’s New Super-Secure Email Is Designed For High-Profile Targets http://www.Slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/10/17/google_introduces_super_secure_email_to_prevent_high_profile_hacks_could.html Appears to be open to all. Anyone tried this?