https://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/entry/20151025_sap_sd2tier_t7_2
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
TechRepublic: Q&A: A powerful look at the future of AI, from its epicenter at Carnegie Mellon
Q&A: A powerful look at the future of AI, from its epicenter at Carnegie Mellon
TechRepublic
The dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science spoke to TechRepublic about the future of AI, ethics, incredible job opportunities, and how women make up 40% of CMU's incoming class. Read the full story
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Sunday, October 25, 2015
Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease
Conclusions: A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat.
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lets the Science Deniers Have It: 'The Beginning of the End of an Informed Democracy' | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/belief/neil-degrasse-tyson-lets-science-deniers-have-it-beginning-end-informed-democracy
Yes, but it requires enlightened governance for that opportunity to arise. Science doesn't happen in the abstract. It pays to have science done. Frontier science, historically and in modern times, is generally paid by government-based sources – the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the research arms of the Department of Energy, even the science arms of the Department of Defense. Someone is paying for research. You can't just say, "Well, the science will save us." No, enlightened governance enabling the science will save us. Scientific solutions to society's challenges, historically, have been the most potent ways to solve problems.
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Yes, but it requires enlightened governance for that opportunity to arise. Science doesn't happen in the abstract. It pays to have science done. Frontier science, historically and in modern times, is generally paid by government-based sources – the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the research arms of the Department of Energy, even the science arms of the Department of Defense. Someone is paying for research. You can't just say, "Well, the science will save us." No, enlightened governance enabling the science will save us. Scientific solutions to society's challenges, historically, have been the most potent ways to solve problems.
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Thursday, October 22, 2015
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Friday, October 16, 2015
Appeals court rules that Google book-scanning is fair use | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/appeals-court-rules-that-google-book-scanning-is-fair-use/
Google's use is indeed transformative, they held, citing caselaw involving other "full-text searchable database[s]" as a "quintessentially transformative use."
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Google's use is indeed transformative, they held, citing caselaw involving other "full-text searchable database[s]" as a "quintessentially transformative use."
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Thursday, October 15, 2015
Ben Carson Is Wrong on Guns and the Holocaust - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/opinion/ben-carson-is-wrong-on-guns-and-the-holocaust.html
If the United States is going to arrive at a workable compromise solution to its gun problem, it will not be accomplished through the use of historical analogies that are false, silly and insulting.
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If the United States is going to arrive at a workable compromise solution to its gun problem, it will not be accomplished through the use of historical analogies that are false, silly and insulting.
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Shared from Twitter: Matt Ridley: By the Book - The New York Times
Easy. The Bible. Not even the fine translations of William Tyndale, largely adopted by King James's committee without sufficient acknowledgment, can conceal the grim tedium of this messy compilation of second-rate tribal legends and outrageous bigo
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Tweet by Bryan Donaldson on Twitter
 | Bryan Donaldson (@TheNardvark) |
"Can I get 2 boxes of Sudafed?" "Sorry, by law you can only buy one at a time." "Okay then just the one box of Sudafed and these 7 guns." | |
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
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Saturday, October 10, 2015
The Atlantic: From Guns to Migrants: Not Everything Is Like the Holocaust
From Guns to Migrants: Not Everything Is Like the Holocaust
The Atlantic
Ben Carson is wrong to say armed Jews could have stopped Hitler. But so are those who compare Europe's refugee crisis to the same period. Read the full story
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Friday, October 09, 2015
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Wednesday, October 07, 2015
www.nytimes.com: If Your Wi-Fi Is Terrible, Check Your Router - The New York Times
If Your Wi-Fi Is Terrible, Check Your Router - The New York Times
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Why some people don't get the flu - Health - Cold and flu | NBC News
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44275043/ns/health-cold_and_flu/t/why-some-people-dont-get-flu/#.VhWu2JRHaK0
It's certainly possible that people who came in had a very high level of antioxidant precursors in their blood, and this may what protected them, but we're not saying that because we don't know. You can't go beyond the data to make these hypotheses."
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It's certainly possible that people who came in had a very high level of antioxidant precursors in their blood, and this may what protected them, but we're not saying that because we don't know. You can't go beyond the data to make these hypotheses."
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Monday, October 05, 2015
Sunday, October 04, 2015
Article: The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/battle-genome-editing-gets-science-wrong/
Related topics: Scientific Research, Biology, Life Sciences
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The New York Times: Patti Smith, Survivor
Patti Smith, Survivor
The New York Times
In her new memoir, "M Train," the punk elder makes peace with her ghosts and finds solace in a century-old bungalow in the Rockaways. Read the full story
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Saturday, October 03, 2015
The Simple Truth About Gun Control - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-simple-truth-about-gun-control
the central insight of the modern study of criminal violence is that all crime—even the horrific violent crimes of assault and rape—is at some level opportunistic. Building a low annoying wall against them is almost as effective as building a high impenetrable one. This is the key concept of Franklin Zimring's amazing work on crime in New York; everyone said that, given the social pressures, the slum pathologies, the profits to be made in drug dealing, the ascending levels of despair, that there was no hope of changing the ever-growing cycle of violence. The right wing insisted that this generation of predators would give way to a new generation of super-predators.
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the central insight of the modern study of criminal violence is that all crime—even the horrific violent crimes of assault and rape—is at some level opportunistic. Building a low annoying wall against them is almost as effective as building a high impenetrable one. This is the key concept of Franklin Zimring's amazing work on crime in New York; everyone said that, given the social pressures, the slum pathologies, the profits to be made in drug dealing, the ascending levels of despair, that there was no hope of changing the ever-growing cycle of violence. The right wing insisted that this generation of predators would give way to a new generation of super-predators.
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Friday, October 02, 2015
Thursday, October 01, 2015
The Atlantic: What Isn’t for Sale?
What Isn't for Sale?
The Atlantic
Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidden costs of a price-tag society. Read the full story
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