Finally, read this. Interesting points about generalizability & overfitting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/02/big-tech-is-testing-you
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Big Tech Is Testing You | The New Yorker
September 13, 2020Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work – Bloomberg
September 12, 2020Taking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive | The New Yorker
September 6, 2020https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/taking-virtual-reality-for-a-test-drive
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In order to get a feel for the future, Jak Wilmot, the
twenty-two-year-old co-founder of a V.R. content studio called Disrupt, lived inside a headset for a week in February—and, of course, live-streamed every second. Cocooned in his five-hundred-square-foot apartment in Atlanta, the windows blacked out so that his circadian clock would not be affected by natural light, he slept, ate, exercised, socialized, and worked in virtual reality. He did not take his headset off even to shower, keeping the electronics dry under a homemade rig that looked like a plastic-wrapped stool perched on top of his head. What he missed most, he told me, was “not seeing day or night cycles,” adding that “to counteract this I ended up loading in simulations that would match the real-world time—a sunrise field in the morning, nighttime sky at night.” At the end of hour one hundred and sixty-eight, you can watch Wilmot ceremoniously lift his headset off his head, squint, and break into a smile. The smile gives way to laughter as he goes outside and looks up at the sky. “Oh, my gosh, the graphics,” he says. “They’re so good.”
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Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data from Berkeley | Science
August 23, 2020http://science.sciencemag.org/content/187/4175/398
Sex Bias in Graduate Admissions: Data from Berkeley
P. J. Bickel1, E. A. Hammel1, J. W. O’Connell1
Science 07 Feb 1975:
Vol. 187, Issue 4175, pp. 398-404
DOI: 10.1126/science.187.4175.398
A type of Simpson’s paradox
The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight | Science
August 21, 2020CDC Says Coronavirus Does Not Spread Easily on Surfaces – The New York Times
May 26, 2020https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-coronavirus-touching-surfaces.html
Interesting use of the Wayback Machine in news reporting to see how messaging has evolved, viz:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html
Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments | Nature
May 4, 2020https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22332
Letter | Published: 17 May 2017
Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments
Hirokazu Shirado & Nicholas A. Christakis
Nature volume 545, pages370–374 (18 May 2017)
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