The 2020 Death Toll Is Higher Than Normal, and It’s Not All Covid-19 – The New York Times

December 14, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/13/us/deaths-covid-other-causes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage


A Physics Analysis of Every Jedi Jump in All of Star Wars | WIRED

December 13, 2020

https://www.wired.com/story/a-physics-analysis-of-every-jedi-jump-in-all-of-star-wars/?mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=falcon&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter


Dressing for the Surveillance Age | The New Yorker

December 13, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/dressing-for-the-surveillance-age

Much of this @jmseabrook article about facial recognition will soon be applicable to genomic privacy & individuals’ attempts to protect themselves in this sphere as well…

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Adversarial examples demonstrate that deep-learning-based C.V. systems are only as good as their training data, and, because the data sets don’t contain all possible images, we can’t really trust them. In spite of the gains in accuracy and performance since the switch to deep learning, we still don’t understand or control how C.V. systems make decisions. “You train a neural network on inputs that represent the world a certain way,” Goldstein said. “And maybe something comes along that’s different—a lighting condition the system didn’t expect, or clothing it didn’t expect. It’s important that these systems are robust and don’t fail catastrophically when they stumble on something they aren’t trained on.”

The early work on adversarial attacks was done in the digital realm, using two-dimensional computer-generated images in a simulation. Making a three-dimensional adversarial object that could work in the real world is a lot harder, because shadows and partial views defeat the attack by introducing nuisance variables into the input image. A Belgian team of researchers printed adversarial images on
two-dimensional boards, which made them invisible to yolo when they held the boards in front of them. Scientists at Northeastern University and at the M.I.T.-I.B.M. Watson A.I. Lab created an adversarial design that they printed on a T-shirt. Goldstein and his students came up with a whole line of clothes—hoodies, sweatshirts, T-shirts.

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How to Export Your Google Drive Files

December 13, 2020

https://www.howtogeek.com/696484/how-to-export-your-google-drive-files/


​Dark Meat Vs. White Meat: Which Is Healthier? | Women’s Health

December 13, 2020

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/food/a19977097/dark-meat/#:~:text=However%2C%20how%20does%20the%20color,of%20which%20are%20saturated%20fat.


Leadership problems working from home

December 12, 2020


https://www.fastcompany.com/90579969/no-one-is-talking-about-the-real-problem-with-working-from-home?cid=eem524:524:s00:12/05/2020_fc&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=Compass&utm_campaign=eem524:524:s00:12/05/2020_fc


Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask – The New York Times

December 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-mask.html


The Coronavirus Won’t Stop Evolving When the Vaccine Arrives – The New York Times

December 11, 2020

The Coronavirus Won’t Stop Evolving When the Vaccine Arrives – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/science/covid-vaccine-virus-resistance.html


Cuomo Suspends Indoor Dining in N.Y.C. Again – The New York Times

December 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/indoor-dining-nyc.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes


‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S. – The New York Times

December 10, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/us/covid-hospitals-icu-capacity.html