Jennifer RM
Artificial intelligence, biotech, big data, paper books, semantic archaeology, and meta (also some local tweets for citizenship points)
Last synced from Twitter 119d ago
The Tragedy of the Social Epistemology Commons - LessWrong
In Brief: Making yourself happy is not best achieved by having true beliefs,
primarily because the contribution of true beliefs to material comfort is a
public good that you can free ride on, but the signaling benefits and happiness
benefits of...
Facebook to Curb Internal Debate Over Sensitive Issues Amid Employee Discord
Facebook is moving to curb internal debate around divisive political and social topics, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said, after a spate of disputes and criticism that has fueled discord among staff.
The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Part 2 - Wait But Why
Part 2: "Our Immortality or Our Extinction". When Artificial Intelligence gets superintelligent, it's either going to be a dream or a nightmare for us.
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Jennifer RM
@ajaydiv @MCHammer If GPT-3 does not worry you at all, then you have NOT been paying attention to the plot closely enough :-(
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Sonoma County Fire and CAL FIRE Dispatch - North West Live Audio Feed
Sonoma County Fire and CAL FIRE Dispatch - North West Live Audio Feed on Broadcastify.com
NASA-FIRMS
Fire Information for Resource Management System
WIFIRE Firemap
Jennifer RM
The #ThirteenFourFire was renamed the #WallbridgeFire and appears to me to be headed towards #Forestville.
The #MyersFire north of #Jenner might be moving similarly.
Between their likely paths is #Cazadero #Guerneville and #DuncanMills.
Map data from firemap.sdsc.edu pic.twitter.com/4iaujR7J9m
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California Air Quality Map: See ratings in your area in near-real time
This interactive map shows air quality data for the Bay Area and California, updated hourly.
What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
Presented December 4th 2018 by Prof. Michael Levin (Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University) Michael Levin Vannevar Bush Professor Director, Allen Discove...
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Pooled testing for covid: Guest post by Zeph Landau
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#PooledCovidScreening
If some of your twitter followers are in an academic community, please retweet.
If you have friends in the health or micro bio department NOT on twitter, forward this to them.
scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4834
If you're PART of a re-opening committee PLEASE ACT!
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No active cases of COVID-19
Today the Ministry of Health is very pleased to report no active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand.
COVID-19: Contain or Mitigate?
The views expressed in this debate do not necessarily reflect the views of endcoronavirus.org or the New England Complex Systems Institute. A debate between ...
Covid-19: Contain or Mitigate?
endCoronavirus.org hosts a debate between Tomás Pueyo, author of "The Hammer and the Dance," and Robin Hanson, author of "The Elephant in the Brain."
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Tomás Pueyo, author of "The Hammer and the Dance" and Robin Hanson, author of "The Elephant in the Brain", debate: "Covid-19: Contain or Mitigate?"
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U.S. Coast Guard Sued for Delegating Government Power to Private Association - Institute for Justice
Arlington, Va.—Captain Matthew Hight was on the verge of getting his license to pilot commercial vessels on the St. Lawrence Seaway and Lake Ontario, but the U.S. Coast Guard refused to let him proceed after a for-profit association concocted...
Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
The government just got even more power to spy on your internet habits as millions remain quarantined at home.
Republicans Give More to Charity Than Democrats, but There’s a Bigger Story Here
One could conclude that Republican party is, despite the conventional wisdom, the party that cares about those in need and puts its money where its mouth is. But the true picture is more complex, reflecting at best a real difference between the...
Jennifer RM
@vgr @krrishd The "pitching in" thing is complicated. It isn't that blue tribe doesn't "give" as much... it might be that they vote for EVERYONE to give so many taxes (to the competent and benevolent government) that people can't afford to give to charity AFTER that?
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The Open-Air Treatment of PANDEMIC INFLUENZA
The H1N1 “Spanish flu” outbreak of 1918–1919 was the most devastating pandemic on record, killing between 50 million and 100 million people. Should the next influenza pandemic prove equally virulent, there could be more than 300 ...
Jennifer RM
The thing to go for, I think, is a Public Health Gardens.
Plan for the long term, but plan to rotate locations ever year, between 3 or 5 or 7 places that spend most of the time fallow.
Also ways in tents. Always clean. For decades.
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