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What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System
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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 Discovery Center at Tufts
Director, Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology
Morphological…
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DNS Over TLS: Encrypting DNS End-To-end
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Facebook Engineering
DNS over TLS: Encrypting DNS end-to-end - Facebook Engineering
Facebook and Cloudflare are piloting DNS over TLS to better understand how the protocol behaves in a production workload.
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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines
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QUIC Crypto and simple state machines
If you don't know about QUIC, go read the excellent Cloudflare post about it. If you're lazy, just think about it as:
Google wanted to improve TCP (2.0
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but TCP can't really be changed
so they built it on top of UDP (which is just IP with ports, check…
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Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer
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South China Morning Post
Chinese battery expert Hongjin Tan is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer, as he prepared to join mainland firm
Hongjin Tan allegedly downloaded confidential files to a flash drive, relating to a proprietary product worth US$1 billion But an FBI agent said that when Tan’s suspicious US employer inspected the drive, it found the confidential files had been deleted…
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Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
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BBC News
Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption
A man and a woman are being questioned as inquiries continue into drone use that grounded flights.
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Real-time air pollution map
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Introspected REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL
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GitHub - vasilakisfil/Introspected-REST: An alternative to REST and GraphQL
An alternative to REST and GraphQL. Contribute to vasilakisfil/Introspected-REST development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs
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The World Through the Eyes of the US
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The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
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Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (2014)
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Brain Pickings
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
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Number of babies born in Japan is the lowest since records began
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The Japan Times
Number of babies born in Japan in 2018 lowest since records began; population decline the highest
The figures reveal the difficulty of the government’s goal of raising the total fertility rate amid the population decline.
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E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco, estimates landmark review
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GOV.UK
E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review
Expert independent review concludes that e-cigarettes have potential to help smokers quit.
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
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Abenomicon
Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
Why did you sting me? You'll drown too
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Best talks 2018?
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Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR
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heise online
Amazon reveals private Alexa voice data files
Due to an internal error, Amazon recently sent 1,700 Alexa voice files to an unauthorized customer. German computer magazine c't details what happened.
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Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
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Nielsen Norman Group
Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
In a study of people interacting with systems using machine-learning algorithms for recommendations and personalization, users had weak mental models and difficulties making the UI do what they want.
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Java 12 – Features Frozen, String Literals Delayed
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InfoQ
Raw String Literals Removed from Java 12 as Feature Set Frozen
The next version of Java SE, JDK 12, has reached the first ramp-down point where the feature set if frozen. Amongst other things JDK 12 provides a preview of an enhanced Switch statement, adds a number of improvements to the G1 garbage collector, and introduces…
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave
The Empire never ended.
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Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
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BBC News
Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
Thieves sell hijacked accounts with in-demand skins online after locking out original owners.
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On Disbelieving Atrocities (1944)
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Pastebin
On Disbelieving Atrocities Arthur Koestler (Jan. 1944) There is a dream wh - Pastebin.com
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How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks
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Nextjournal
How to Version Control Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter notebooks generate files that may contain metadata, source code, formatted text, and rich media. Unfortunately, this makes these files poor candidates for conventional version control solutions, which works best with plain text.
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