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2018 materials (which seem identical) are available here: https://github.com/propublica/data-institute-2018

The 2019 course is next month, but the deadline to apply has passed.

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Email the author.

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What programming language is used for the avionics?

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This is a great example of the principle of unintended consequences. It's interesting to reflect on whether sperm banks contracts from decades ago give them protection from lawsuits in such cases. It is even unclear the degree 23me are protected. Both policy makers, on the the regulatory side, and lawyers doing risk management, should take a hard look at stories such as this.

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Winograd's thesis, from which SHRDLU comes from, was on natural language processing.

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

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Interesting how back then programming was a woman's job and the racial divide between programmers and operators.

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I think the following interview will give you useful context for understanding these publications.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18938917

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I expected to see here more discussion of the methodology, tools, data analysis in the report.

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One interesting tidbit in the report is the claim that the platforms intentionally scrubbed potentially useful metadata from the data they provided the Senate.

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These statistics about the dataset are interesting:

~10.4 million tweets (of which ~6 million were original) across 3841 twitter accounts

~1100 YouTube videos across 17 account channels

~116,000 Instagram posts across 133 accounts

~61,500 unique Facebook posts across 81 Pages

There were ~77 million engagements on Facebook, ~187 million engagements on Instagram, and ~73 million engagements on original content on Twitter.

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Done.

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How does plotnine compare to Altair?

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Previous discussion of Romer's blog post on using Jupyter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16840692

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The book that the article summarizes and criticisms of it are not hard to find, if you are interested. e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

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I was most surprised by his take on the future of weapons research.

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What does it tell us that the Python op-ed hunting hack got the least amount of HN votes compared to the two R submissions?

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If you plan to leave books behind, consider using bookcrossing: http://www.bookcrossing.com/

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added.

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I loved these Scientific American profiles as a kid. I guess there's nothing like it these days?

Submissions

Steven Pinker's Aid in Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Defense

Who guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for new approach

An Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans

Why we disagree about human nature

How much tech employees are donating to Democratic presidential candidates – Vox

ProPublica Data Institute (2017)

Data Dynamos Do Their Jobs

I Was Slijper’s Goat – Ehud Lamm – Medium

How Big Tech Funds the Debate on AI Ethics

Collection of Deep Learning Models for TensorFlow/PyTorch in Jupyter Notebooks

Machine Learning Books That Helped Me Level Up as a Data Scientist

Robust.ai launches to build an industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots

The smartest people in AI teamed up to make robots

Free R Reading Material

Neural Net Worth – June 2019 – Communications of the ACM

CACM Jun 2019 – 2018 ACM Turing Award

Professor Daniel Dennett: Consciousness, Autonomy and Responsibility (Live Talk)

Books on Philosophy of Science – Five Books Expert Recommendations

Maximizing likelihood is equivalent to minimizing KL-Divergence

Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

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