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untraining uuhs

I don't know how effective this approach would be, but it's a neat small scale application of machine learning.

 

 

 

going after dejoy's gas guzzlers

States are suing over the nutty decision to require most of the next generation fleet run on gasoline.  Given the duty cycle of most postal routes and the maturity of electric power this was a stupid and possibly rigged decision.

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

a persistent piece of garbage from darwin

Origin of the Species is brilliant, but like Newton not everything was up to that level.  But somehow the bad piece has been misinterpreted through the years.  Now by the machine learn crowd.

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Do your facial movements broadcast your emotions to other people? If you think the answer is yes, think again. This question is under contentious debate. Some experts maintain that people around the world make specific, recognizable faces that express certain emotions, such as smiling in happiness, scowling in anger and gasping with widened eyes in fear. They point to hundreds of studies that appear to demonstrate that smiles, frowns, and so on are universal facial expressions of emotion. They also often cite Charles Darwin’s 1872 book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals to support the claim that universal expressions evolved by natural selection.

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best quote I've seen in awhile

 

Also, please stop talk about 'crypto bros' - you're erasing the gender-diversity of grifters and idiots.

 

if you can't trust the chinese ministry of foreign affairs...

.. just who can you trust?

 

Reuters: ”China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday there was no basis to speculation that Beijing could try to use leverage over electric car maker Tesla in order to influence content on U.S. social media site Twitter.”

 

on scamming

Greg points to an explorer on attacks that fool people by making a url that looks like something legitimate to a person, but it really different.

 

and the unthinkable

What if it really is thinkable for Putin?  They have over 2,000 tactical nukes and a variety of delivery systems.  The US has only a small number and limited delivery. 

 

when you really want your phone

And if you think you've had a bad day.

 

something you may not know about amazon

They're probably not what you think they are.

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But a series of product safety cases that have been brought against Amazon over the past few years makes clear that its rewiring of retail poses risks to customers as well. Above all, the cases highlight a significant gap between how most people understand the world’s largest e-commerce company and what that company actually does.

Conversations about Amazon tend to emphasize the company’s omniscience — the cutting-edge technologies that it uses to gather data on its competitors and customers and to discipline its workers. But in reality, as the scholar Miriam Posner has written, supply chains that drive global capitalism depend on “partial sight.” Companies are able to get customers so many things so cheap and fast because they know only what they have to; toward everything else, they often turn a blind eye. The fact that Amazon could not reach Mr. Hu is a straightforward consequence of the business plan.

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drone delivery

A current status check although there are many (sensible) barriers.  Amazon has fallen behind.  That's consistent with a conversation I had with someone who left the program - he used the words "mismanaged" and "disaster"...