What’s News For April 17th?
1. Firstly, Python Data Science Handbook, in the form of (free!) Jupyter notebooks. https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook
2. NextSense Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain: Born from Alphabet’s “moon shot” division, the startup aims to sell earbuds that can collect heaps of neural data—and uncover the mysteries of gray matter. https://www.wired.com/…/nextsense-wants-to-get-in-your… (archived version: https://archive.ph/a2YfX)
3. MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the…/
4. “The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy estimates it would cost just over $24 billion to have prototype vaccines ready for each of the 26 known viral families that cause human disease” https://progress.institute/why-barda-deserves-more-funding/
5. Metamagical Themas, 40 Years Later — “It is difficult to translate this sentence into French.” https://lacker.io/books/2022/04/07/metamagical-themas.html
6. “Long Video Generation with Time-Agnostic VQGAN and Time-Sensitive Transformer”, Ge et al 2022 {FB} https://songweige.github.io/projects/tats/index.html
7. “Habitat-Web: Learning Embodied Object-Search Strategies from Human Demonstrations at Scale”, Ramrakhya et al 2022 (log-scaling of crowdsourced imitation learning in VR robotics) https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03514
8. Thread about how modularization may create an entirely different electronics ecosystem. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1513716660716331019.html
9. 140 Cognitive Biases You Should Know https://docs.google.com/…/1lntFJVzIoWU2cYWyBJ4v…/edit…
10. “China’s lending boom to developing countries is morphing into defaults and debt distress. Given the secrecy surrounding China’s loans, also the associated defaults remain “hidden”, as missed payments and restructuring details are not disclosed.” https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36965
11. Japan considered waging biological warfare upon civilian population centers in Southern California in the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Operation_Cherry_Blossoms…
12. Central Chicago was lifted 10 feet up in the 1850s and 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
13. Lastly, yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White https://freebeacon.com/…/yes-the-media-bury-the-race…/
