Carbonated waters defined: What are seltzer, club soda, soda water, Perrier, San Pellegrino, and other common terms?

January 25, 2020

https://slate.com/culture/2014/05/carbonated-waters-defined-what-are-seltzer-club-soda-soda-water-perrier-san-pellegrino-and-other-common-terms.html


Leaving Investment Banking to Turn Around a Family Nut Business – The New York Times

January 25, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/business/smallbusiness/forsaking-investment-banking-to-turn-around-a-family-business.html


Fatherland (1994) – YouTube

January 25, 2020

What if Normandy had failed ?

also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland_(novel)


Use ancient remains more wisely

January 25, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02516-5
A cost of sequencing!


Bezos Hack Report Puzzles Cyberexperts – WSJ

January 25, 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/report-alleging-saudi-hack-of-bezos-phone-puzzles-security-experts-11579865394


Portable AC

January 25, 2020

https://www.homedepot.com/b/Heating-Venting-Cooling-Air-Conditioners-Portable-Air-Conditioners/Ventless/N-5yc1vZc4m4Z1z18b7y?visualNav=Ventless


Restricted maximum likelihood – Wikipedia

January 25, 2020

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

REML can be used to est. the hyperparameters of a random-effects model


Random effects model – Wikipedia

January 25, 2020

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


Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines – The Washington Post

January 24, 2020

A rather worrisome article, with a great quote: “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”

QT:{{”
But the perils of increasingly intimate supervision — and the subtle way it can mold how people act — have also led some to worry whether anyone will truly know when all this surveillance has gone too far. “Graduates will be well prepared … to embrace 24/7 government tracking and social credit systems,” one commenter on the Slashdot message board said. “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/


Locations — Ladurée | Restaurant, Tea Room and Macaron Specialist

January 24, 2020

https://www.laduree.us/locations