https://www.amazon.com/Human-Errors-Panorama-Glitches-Pointless-ebook/dp/B07432D5GB
economist story on pcawg
February 5, 2020Job add sites for higher education
February 3, 2020https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=yale+postdoc&l=
https://www.higheredjobs.com/
linkedin.com
http://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html
Reverse engineering cash: researchers investigate how coin designs communicate value | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
February 3, 2020Amazon.com: Teacher’s Choice Kinetic Educational Spring Toy – Multi Sensory Interactive 3D Shaped Flow Ring, Gold: Toys & Games
February 2, 2020Amazon.com: Speks Magnetic Balls – Classic Blue Set of 512 (2.5mm) Fun Stress Relief Desk Toy for Adults – Mashable Smashable Buildable: Toys & Games
February 2, 2020Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
February 2, 2020New term: “Coercive citation”
Paper of interest
February 1, 2020https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-6516-1
The effects of common structural variants on 3D chromatin structure
Omar Shanta, Amina Noor, Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium (HGSVC) & Jonathan Sebat
BMC Genomics volume 21, Article number: 95 (2020)
Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse? | The New Yorker
February 1, 2020Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/can-the-manufacturer-of-tasers-provide-the-answer-to-police-abuse… Article has a good quote/point: “Smith assembled an AI Ethics Board… His lead AI researcher…told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without [such] a board.”
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Recently, Smith assembled an A.I. Ethics Board, to help steer Axon’s decisions. (His lead A.I. researcher, recruited from Uber, told him that he wouldn’t be able to hire the best engineers without an ethics board.) Smith told me, “I don’t want to wake up like the guy Nobel, who spent his life making things that kill people, and then, at the end of his life, it’s, like, ‘O.K., I have to buy my way out of this.’ ”
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