Yesterday's News 2/21/2018

If you want to buy one of those $5k Kindle Books Use the Affiliate Link Please

MikeNM

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February 21, 2018

I'll Take The Ultimate Wash Option - I mean I’d prefer they just 3D print me a new body, but this will do.

Facebook Mines Its Users For Data About Inequality - Though I think that most of us have made peace with Facebook doing whatever they want, their insistence that they use their vast userbase as actual . . .

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Yesterday's News 2/20/2018

I Really Hope No One Else Came Up With Linus' Law

MikeNM

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February 20, 2018

Brain Plasticity Study - A study looks at people who suffered a stroke as infants, and how their brains adapted to develop language normally, giving more data about the way brain plasticity works.

David Tennant On Good Omens - I am exceedingly excited about this show. Good Omens was the book that introduced me to Terry Pratchett. (I . . .

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Yesterday's News 2/19/2018

MikeNM

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February 19, 2018

Coinbase is Not a Bank - I'm not sure how the longterm viability of cryptocurrency is possible with companies like this. If there was ever something practically invites the Government to step in, this is probably it. I wouldn't be surprised if you see the EU start to get involved some time this year.

Go To The Effing Doctor . . .

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Yesterday's News 2-16-2018

MikeNM

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February 16, 2018

Instead of spending the day sharing this stuff out on Twitter and Facebook, I'm going to start sharing them here.

Implicit Bias and Policing - Jennifer Eberhardt is a social scientist bringing implicit bias research to policing. She has been embedded with the Oakland PD creating new policies based on her research. It's a . . .

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Serial Killers, Computer Models, and Small Town America

The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne

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February 06, 2018

What if you could model the behavior of a killer using the same model used to track Apex predators? In The Naturalist, Andrew Mayne uses this idea to craft a tense thriller.

Professor Theo Cray finds himself under suspicion of murder when one of his former students ends up dead. After he gets cleared, it is found that his student . . .

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Sea of Rust

The Post-Post Robot Apoclypse

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January 08, 2018

That tagline is the best way to sell this book. The robots rose up and destroyed humanity, but the last human is already a distant memory in Britta's mind by the time that we join her. Instead, we find her scavenging a wasteland for failing robots. It turns out that massive mainframe AI's started absorbing smaller robots into their . . .

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A New Home

Pour One Out For Typed.com

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January 03, 2018

I am still a little sad to see it go. Typed was a dead simple CMS, and the money I paid into the Indiegogo was what spurred me to at least keep blogging monthly. While my freelancing career has never expanded beyond one site a time, I do still fancy myself a professional writer.

Silverback was an easy place to get this blog up and . . .

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