and other data-mining sinkholes
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/09/step-away-from-stepwise-regression-and-other-data-mining/
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September 19, 2022Notice of Recent Security Incident
September 19, 2022I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For? | WIRED
September 19, 2022Liked your piece, particularly the sentiment: “The key, finally, was to turn nearly everything in my life into emails.” Most important here is that email — as opposed to most other forms of electronic communication — is in an open, cross-platform format that’s readily parsable.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-finally-reached-computing-nirvana-what-was-it-all-for/
Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
September 18, 2022Opinion | There’s Terrific News About the New Covid Boosters, but Few Are Hearing It – The New York Times
September 18, 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/opinion/covid-booster-shot.html QT:{{”
The White House coronavirus response coordinator, Ashish Jha, said last week that people might consider getting the booster when they get flu shots, which many do in October and, barring a new variant curveball, think of it as an annual shot going forward. That’s fine if people do that, especially since many immunologists say it’s best to wait three to six months after one’s last vaccination or infection, and many people have had recent infections.
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Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’ | Science | AAAS
September 17, 2022https://twitter.com/boron110/status/1570761167232016389
Thought the recent @ScienceMagazine podcast about the asteroid deflection mission dealt well with the effect of science on
sci-fiction and *vice-versa*. Wonder if this interplay happens in other scientific contexts?
Should “data” be singular or plural? | The Economist
September 17, 2022Enjoyed this article! I studied Latin, but, unfortunately, now agree with the article: “It is poignant that [trivia] a word that once meant a knowledge of Latin now means a knowledge of impractical random facts.”
https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/08/11/should-data-be-singular-or-plural
SN 887 twitter +
September 17, 2022Great episode! Liked the discussion of “permission-less browser clipboard write” (shown at http://webplatform.news), esp. the example of a malicious website rewriting a crypto wallet address in the clipboard without the user realizing it.
However, how does a website know the clipboard contains a wallet address to overwrite, in the first place?
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-887.htm
Security Now! Transcript of Episode #887
