Chris Brockett
Dissident. NLP data janitor. Tsundoku expert. Transient epiphanies. Language, computation and cognition. Personal account: opinions are not my employer's.
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Last exit before autocracy
A conversation with Masha Gessen on how to prevent "autocratic breakthrough," why Russiagate was a "crutch" for the left, and what really happened in that New Yorker election s(t)imulation Zoom
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Judge orders USPS to reverse mail collection limits now
Emmet Sullivan’s orders are highly detailed.
Facts Are Facts
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine looked at the current COVID outbreak in Tennessee and broke the hospitalization numbers down by...
Chris Brockett
If you need to be convinced about the impact of masking up.
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Western States Join California’s Scientific Safety Review Workgroup to Ensure Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine | California Governor
Experts will independently review the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine SACRAMENTO – Washington, Oregon and Nevada have joined California’s COVID-19 Scientific Safety Review Workgroup…
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Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
What Open Data Tells Us About Rejected ICLR Submissions
Reviewing can be a noisy process. What happens to papers which are rejected?
Confidential Computing - Microsoft Research
Security and privacy are arguably the most significant concerns for enterprises and consumers using public cloud platforms. The confidential computing theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge has been conducting pioneering research in the design of...
Armed guards at St. Pete early voting site told deputies they were hired by Trump campaign, election officials say
Deputies with Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office came to the polling place and spoke to the guards who said they were hired by the Trump campaign and said they would be out tomorrow at the earl…
Overzealous profanity filter bans paleontologists from talking about bones
A virtual conference was thrown into confusion when the platform hosting the event came with a pre-packaged ‘naughty word’ censor
Auditor: Iowa misallocated at least $21 million in COVID-19 funds
Gov. Kim Reynolds must reallocate the federal money to pandemic expenses or Iowa will have to repay it, the auditor says
Herd Immunity? Or ‘Mass Murder’?
A proposal to let people with low risk of infection live without constraint could lead to a million or more preventable deaths.
Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu, Japan study finds
The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found.