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After 6 Years in Exile, Edward Snowden Explains Himself | WIRED

September 28, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/after-six-years-in-exile-edward-snowden-explains-himself/

How to Practice Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World | WIRED

September 28, 2019

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-practice-long-term-thinking-in-a-distracted-world/

Gene drive – Wikipedia

September 28, 2019

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

Learning to Love Robots

September 28, 2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/learning-to-love-robots

Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?

September 28, 2019

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/should-we-be-worried-about-computerized-facial-recognition

Too Much Training Can Tax Athletes’ Brains

September 28, 2019

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/26/764604968/too-much-training-can-tax-athletes-brains

how to get twitter data

September 28, 2019

http://www.storybench.org/get-twitter-data-rtweet-r/

M.I.T. Media Lab, Already Rattled by the Epstein Scandal, Has a New Worry – The New York Times

September 28, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/media/mit-media-lab-food-computer.html

Announcing the “I Spy a Periodic Table” photo contest results

September 28, 2019

https://cen.acs.org/sections/IYPT/IYPT-announcing-i-spy-periodic-table-photo-contest-results/index.html

Great sci viz & #DataArt

Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award

September 28, 2019

QT:{{”

“Geoff Hinton, an emeritus professor at the University of Toronto and a senior researcher at Alphabet Inc.’s Google Brain, Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University and the chief AI scientist at Facebook Inc., and Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal as well as co-founder of AI company Element AI Inc., will share this year’s award, which is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery.

The three winners will split a $1 million prize that comes with the award, which is currently underwritten by Google. Hinton said he will donate a portion of his share to the University of Toronto’s humanities department. “They are much less well-funded and I think the humanities are very important to the future,” he said in an interview. Bengio said he may use his share to help fight climate change.” “}}

Three ‘Godfathers of Deep Learning’ Selected for Turing Award
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/three-godfathers-of-deep-learning-selected-for-turing-award