What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 4/19/20
and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):
With the fall semester a big question mark, students are considering alternatives
By Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020
Controversy over corona tracing: the Swiss epidemiologist Salathé announces the exit from the pan-European project
A team of researchers from ETH Lausanne and ETH Zurich, who was involved in the pan-European project for a tracing app, is irritated. Its approach, which it regards as more secure under data protection law, appears to be questioned.
Jenni Thier
April 17th, 2020
Peter Norvig - MIT
MIT Tech Review
Q&A: Peter Norvig
Google’s director of research talks about the evolution of Web search.
by Kate Greene - archive page
December 18, 2007
As director of research at Google, Peter Norvig is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world’s information. He’s a good match for the job, having spent much of his life thinking about how computers think and making them do it more efficiently. An expert on artificial intelligence, he has taught at universities, held research jobs in the corporate world and at NASA, and cowritten the influential textbook AI: A Modern Approach.
Q&A: Peter Norvig
Google’s director of research talks about the evolution of Web search.
by Kate Greene - archive page
December 18, 2007
As director of research at Google, Peter Norvig is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world’s information. He’s a good match for the job, having spent much of his life thinking about how computers think and making them do it more efficiently. An expert on artificial intelligence, he has taught at universities, held research jobs in the corporate world and at NASA, and cowritten the influential textbook AI: A Modern Approach.
Robotics
When coronavirus created a gap in the PPE supply chain, Northwest high school robotics teams came to the rescue
Updated Apr 21, 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/
Updated Apr 21, 2020
https://www.oregonlive.com/
Therapists, counselors go online as patients postpone visits
Photo of Gwendolyn Wu
Gwendolyn Wu April 17, 2020 Updated: April 21, 2020 7:04 p.m.
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Gwendolyn Wu April 17, 2020 Updated: April 21, 2020 7:04 p.m.
Virtual Tourism
‘Virtual tourism’ is suddenly everywhere in coronavirus era. Will it stick?
Photo of Gregory Thomas
Gregory Thomas April 12, 2020 Updated: April 12, 2020 3:53 p.m.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/
Photo of Gregory Thomas
Gregory Thomas April 12, 2020 Updated: April 12, 2020 3:53 p.m.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/
Lego
GRACE NOTES
A parent can never pack away the Lego years
By Jeremy Eichler Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/
A parent can never pack away the Lego years
By Jeremy Eichler Globe Staff,Updated April 18, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/
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Random Observations for Students of Economics
SUNDAY, JUNE 07, 2020
What I've been watching
Over the past week, I have watched the six-part HBO miniseries The Plot Against America, which came out in March. It is based on the 2004 Philip Roth novel of the same title and tells an alternative history in which FDR is defeated in 1940 by the fascist-sympathizing Charles Lindbergh through the eyes of a Jewish family living in Newark, NJ. Compelling story, well acted. It is the best piece of television I have seen in years.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-ive-been-watching.html
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