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NYC real estate

Crane atop NYC high-rise spins wildly in wind, drops debris on street

3h ago

from New York Post

New York Nightmare: Man Falls Through Sidewalk Into Rat-Filled Chasm

4h ago

from Nytimes

Connecticut's COVID-19 positivity rate soars to 6.1% overnight

5h ago

from New York Post

A Man in a Black Ski Mask Cuts Short a 17-Year-Old's Life

5h ago

from Nytimes

US news

3h ago

City tries to close Fort Greene Park ahead of protest, quickly back-tracks

3h ago

Opinion: The case for the president's re-election * Brooklyn Paper

Left-wing politics

8h ago

Opinion: What does the Republican Party stand for? * Brooklyn Paper

US politics

8h ago

Feds could make city pay for more wastewater infrastructure due to Gowanus rezoning * Brooklyn Paper

9h ago

Police searching for crook behind seven armed robberies in Brooklyn * Brooklyn Paper

18-year-old fatally shot in chest in Brooklyn deli: police

17h ago

from WPIX

Man Struck by Train at 103rd Street

4h ago

from Westsiderag

Photo of the Day: Paris on the Hudson

14h ago

from Westsiderag

104-Year-Old Upper West Sider Votes for Biden, Then Says 'Now I Can Die Happy'

15h ago

from Westsiderag

Pearl Chin, Beloved Founder of Knitty City, Dies at 71

15h ago

from Westsiderag

Pupper West Side: Ella Provides Backup Vocals, Encourages Neighbors to Vote

15h ago

from Westsiderag

Openings & Closings: Bahn Vietnamese, Sweetgreen, Jeffrey Stein Salon, Blue Bottle Coffee, Manny's Bistro, Victoria's Secret

a day ago

from Westsiderag

Ransomware Hits Dozens of Hospitals in an Unprecedented Wave

9h ago

from Wired

On Wednesday evening, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Department of Health and Human Services warned that there is a "an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals and health care providers," above and beyond the wave of attacks that have already occurred. 2

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Public health

Information security

U.S. hospitals facing 'increased and imminent' threat of cyber-attacks: FBI

9h ago

from nydailynews.com

The agencies have "credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers," the alert released Wednesday night read. 1

"CISA, FBI, and HHS are sharing this information to provide warning to healthcare providers to ensure that they take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats." 1

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Information security

Antitrust Suit Against Google is a Watershed Moment

9h ago

from Electronic Frontier Foundation

The complaint is broad, covering Google's power over search generally, along with search advertising. 1Instead of asking for money damages, the complaint asks for Google to be restructured and its illegal behavior restricted. 1

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micshasan

Tech industry

Google's display advertising business is under antitrust probe in Italy

a day ago

from TechCrunch

Italy's competition authority has opened an antitrust investigation into Google's display ad business - adding another allegation of abuse of a dominant position to the tech giant's regulatory woes. 1

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micshasan

Online marketing

Experian vows to drag UK's Information Commissioner's Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices

a day ago

from Theregister

"The ICO found that significant 'invisible' processing took place, likely affecting millions of adults in the UK. 1It is 'invisible' because the individual is not aware that the organisation is collecting and using their personal data. 1

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EU data protection

Trump Campaign Website Defaced by Cryptocurrency Scam

a day ago

from Threatpost

While the hacked page claimed that the threat actors responsible compromised "multiple devices" that gave them "full access" to internal and secret conversations" of "trump and relatives," there is no evidence that these statements are true, according to the Trump campaign. 1

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AngelaPerea

Information security

Forecasting hotel booking demand using giotto-time

9h ago

from Medium

To select the best features and estimate the performance of our models we use a training set consisting of 85% of the data, and keep 15% for the test. 1

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A total of 33 weekly time series features are created using aggregations of the 32 features present for each booking in the original dataset. 1

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Save hundreds on these Python, AI and data science courses

10h ago

from Engadget

That means learning new concepts, such as machine learning, deep learning and computer vision, as well as mastering the frameworks and underlying techniques that bring these advanced applications to life. 1

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Video games

When Algorithms go shopping

a day ago

from Medium

On 18th April 2011, a book about the biology of a fly was offered for sale on Amazon for $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping). 1This was not just a glitch - the price of the book was steadily going up in the days before. 1And then, the next day, the price dropped to $106.23 (plus $3.99 shipping). 1

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Effective altruism, AI safety, and learning human preferences from the state of the world

2d ago

from Medium

The overarching idea effective altruism, the very easy to defend one that doesn't get into specifics, is with whatever money, time, resources, whatever you're willing to spend altruistically, you should try to do the most good you can with it, rather than... And you should think about that. 1

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How AI is Changing the World of B2B Marketing

2d ago

from Medium

Using big data and intelligent machine learning, AI can help B2B marketers make more informed decisions and put their money into the right places. 1

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This is why numerous B2B businesses have adopted chatbots as their primary communication channel. 1

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Smart virtual assistants are another great AI innovation that can be effectively leveraged for marketing. 1

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Marketing

Fake News Classifier to Tackle COVID-19 Disinformation

3d ago

from Medium

Step 3: Combining the Title and Text column. 1

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Step 4: Removing punctuation from the data and converting it into lowercase. 1

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Step 5: Splitting the data into Training data and Test data. 1

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Step 6: Implementing Tf-Idf on X_train and X_test. 1

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Step 2: Assess model performance using test data. 1

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Trump, Biden fight for Black votes as racial anger riles country, campaign

10h ago

from The Washington Times

The rioting - which injured at least 30 police officers Monday - extended a spate of social justice and anti-police demonstrations across the country that is energizing Black voters in support of Mr. Biden. 1

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They predict that Mr. Trump will improve his share of the Black vote nationally from the 8% he got in 2016 to double digits next week. 1

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10h ago

from Nytimes

Biden's Call for 'National Mask Mandate' Gains Traction in Public Health Circles

"Instead of making it about the president's coercive authority under law it should be about whether the president can support a norm that supports public health, which is in people's self interest," said Harold Hongju Koh, a law professor at Yale University and an expert in national security and human rights. 1

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10h ago

from POLITICO

Trump confronts his 50 percent problem

The RNC and the Trump campaign bristle at the idea that they are engaging in voter suppression or that there are strategic motivations behind their actions. 1They frame it as resistance to a Democratic assault on election integrity. 1

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a day ago

from Truthout

Tuesday's Down-Ticket Elections Are the Most Important in Generations

It has trouble, however, competing for media space with a White House that has declared the COVID-19 pandemic to be over even as the U.S. reports 500,000 new cases in the last week alone. 1

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Left-wing politics

US politics

Michael Bloomberg PAC to pour $15 million into Ohio, Texas to boost Biden in closing stretch

a day ago

from The Washington Times

Michael R. Bloomberg is pouring about $15 million into Texas and Ohio to boost Democrat Joseph R. Biden in the final stretch of the race, trying to signal that the GOP-leaning states are competitive for Democrats as Mr. Biden looks for alternate paths to the presidency. 1

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AngelaPerea

2d ago

from Truthout

AOC Pushes for Dems to "Expand the Court" After Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation

After Justice Antonin Scalia died, Republicans blocked President Barack Obama from appointing a replacement, saying that it was improper to do so 11 months before the 2016 presidential election . 1

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"Republicans do this because they don't believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do," Ocasio-Cortez said in her second tweet. 1"And for a long time they've been correct. 1

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AngelaPerea

Left-wing politics

US politics

A designer's starter guide to technical documentation

17h ago

from Medium

Test Plans, including Quality Assurance, Systems Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Marketing requirements, Analytics and measurement plans are all informative to designers. 1

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Measuring and manipulating usability

3d ago

from Medium

Three main elements that determine a product's usability (given the context in which the user is interacting with the product) are Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Satisfaction. 2

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Satisfaction relates to user satisfaction after performing the task. 1

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15 booked a taxi. 1The task completion rate here is (15/20) = 0.75 or 75%. 1

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AngelaPerea

The rise of the accessibility statement

2d ago

from Medium

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5 reasons why automotive design = UX design

3d ago

from Medium

This is pretty obvious: Microlino's main goal is to become a comfortable car, which helps people to drive and live in a less-trafficked and less polluted city while saving money on gas. 1This is also important when designing pieces of software: usability should be always the number one priority. 1Would you ever use slow software that, in the end, just prints a huge error in front of your face? 1

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The Apple Watch design is already a classic - will it ever change?

4d ago

from Plugged | The Next Web

It's all about evolution, about tinkering and perfecting. 1

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Well, in everything but the Apple Watch. 1

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And, just to note, I'm talking about external design here - obviously the innards of the Apple Watch have advanced considerably across the five years. 1

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There's a reason that most screens are rectangular: it's simply the most efficient shape for displaying information. 1

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AngelaPerea

Apple

Awesome Demos Roundup #18 | Codrops

an hour ago

from Codrops

Loanee names duo who advised him on move after 'intense' Arsenal spell

10h ago

from teamtalk.com

"I had other options, but I thought about it for a long time and very carefully," he told . 1

"It was an important and very good decision for me. 1Hertha is a very good team for me. 1I'm looking forward to my teammates and the games. 1

"The Bundesliga is something new for me. 1I want to win as many games as possible, develop myself further with the whole team and, above all, develop myself further. 1

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Arsenal

Who'll score USMNT's goals on the road to the World Cup?

10h ago

from ESPN.com

While you have the outstanding Christian Pulisic already settled on one wing, and Giovanni Reyna likely playing in the attacking midfielder role, there is a notable vacancy at striker. 1The honor has been shifted around over the past few years, but inevitably comes back to Jozy Altidore. 1

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Talented international midfielder signs a new long term contract with Man United

2d ago

from CaughtOffside

He's agreed a new deal which will keep him at Old Trafford until 2023 at least, but the club confirm they do have the option to extend that by a further year. 1

He did make his debut for United in the Europa League later last year, but it doesn't sound like he's going to be getting many chances in the team this year. 1

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Klopp may have found a way to unlock Firmino in newfound role

2d ago

from Rousing The Kop

However, despite the undeniable quality Firmino brings to the team, there is no escaping the reality that he has been off the pace in recent weeks to the usual devastating standards supporters have become accustomed to other the past three seasons. 1

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That is why it was so refreshing to see Firmino's qualities allowed to flourish in a system that put more emphasis in the attack. 1

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AngelaPerea

Liverpool FC

FIFA president Infantino tests positive for COVID

3d ago

from ESPN.com

Infantino, who is 50 years old, has reported mild symptoms, is in self-isolation and will quarantine for at least 10 days, FIFA added in a statement. 1

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Report: Manchester United join Liverpool in the race for Schalke centre-back Ozan Kabak | Sportslens.com

3d ago

from Sportslens.com

They aren't the only top Premier League side interested in the Turkish youngster, though, as Liverpool are also looking to sign the £30 million-rated centre-back. 1

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Liverpool FC

Save hundreds on these Python, AI and data science courses

10h ago

from Engadget

That means learning new concepts, such as machine learning, deep learning and computer vision, as well as mastering the frameworks and underlying techniques that bring these advanced applications to life. 1

1

JamesJalaPayneo

Video games

Effective altruism, AI safety, and learning human preferences from the state of the world

2d ago

from Medium

The overarching idea effective altruism, the very easy to defend one that doesn't get into specifics, is with whatever money, time, resources, whatever you're willing to spend altruistically, you should try to do the most good you can with it, rather than... And you should think about that. 1

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Grimes Contributes "AI Lullaby" to Algorithmic Mood Music Startup

2d ago

from Pitchfork

Grimes has partnered with Endel-an algorithm-based mood music startup-for a collaborative new project called "AI Lullaby." 1Featuring original music and vocals from Grimes, it's available on the Endel iOS app until December 23. 1

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According to Endel, the project was inspired by Grimes' experience as a new mother. 1

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AngelaPerea

Music

How AI is Changing the World of B2B Marketing

2d ago

from Medium

Using big data and intelligent machine learning, AI can help B2B marketers make more informed decisions and put their money into the right places. 1

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This is why numerous B2B businesses have adopted chatbots as their primary communication channel. 1

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Smart virtual assistants are another great AI innovation that can be effectively leveraged for marketing. 1

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AngelaPerea

Marketing

Microsoft partners with Adobe and c3.ai to launch Salesforce rival | IT PRO

3d ago

from IT PRO

SAP and Oracle are also big players in the CRM space, with Adobe and Microsoft following the pack with conventionally only a fraction of the market share. 1

"C3.ai, Microsoft, and Adobe bring together the perfect combination of technology, industry, and domain expertise to address the requirements for a new generation of CRM," said c3.ai CEO Ed Abbo. 1

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