annapowellsmith

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No data centers in my backyard(jasmi.news)
4 points by annapowellsmith 2mo ago|1 comments
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by annapowellsmith 2mo ago
money, power, and populism in the AI buildout
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LLMs Can't Jump(philsci-archive.pitt.edu)
1 points by annapowellsmith 8mo ago|3 comments
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by annapowellsmith 8mo ago
How do we fundamentally discover new things? In a letter to Maurice Solovine, Albert Einstein conceptualized discovery as a cyclical process involving an intuitive 'jump' from sensory experience to axioms, followed by logical dedu
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What happens when Chinese resolve meets American rent-seeking?(hypertext.niskanencenter.org)
10 points by annapowellsmith 1y ago|0 comments
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Older adults disproportionately hindered by touch screen interfaces (2023)(journals.sagepub.com)
69 points by annapowellsmith 2y ago|130 comments
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Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)(landley.net)
129 points by annapowellsmith 2y ago|49 comments
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by annapowellsmith 3y ago
My father is in the National Survey of Health & Development study of people born in Britain in March 1946, "the longest continually running major birth cohort study in the world": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists(varsity.co.uk)
4 points by annapowellsmith 3y ago|0 comments
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Kitsault, Canada’s $50M 1980s ghost town(justinmcelroy.com)
540 points by annapowellsmith 4y ago|186 comments
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The Myth of America’s Green Growth(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by annapowellsmith 6y ago|0 comments
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by annapowellsmith 6y ago
Flourish | Senior Developer | Full-time | REMOTE (UK) | https://flourish.studio/jobs/senior-developer Flourish is an online tool for creating beautiful data graphics, presentations and other interactive content without
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by annapowellsmith 7y ago
Comment from a tractor-owning friend: That's a very good piece capturing a lot of the issues (esp GPS retrofitting which is easy and make a huge difference). The one thing it doesn't quite draw out is that the market has segmen
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by annapowellsmith 7y ago
Article is paywalled, so here are the key bits: Tens of thousands of political ads have gone missing from Facebook’s public archive less than 48 hours before the British general election, raising fresh questions over measures introduced to
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Facebook under fire as political ads vanish from archive(ft.com)
4 points by annapowellsmith 7y ago|1 comments
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by annapowellsmith 8y ago
The Professional Pilots Rumour Network: https://www.pprune.org/ Which is pretty much what the name suggests. Airline pilots, both passenger and commercial flights, swapping news and rumours.
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by annapowellsmith 9y ago
London, UK | Flourish (data visualisation) | Lead Developer | ONSITE (part-time remote ok) | https://flourish.studio/jobs/lead-fullstack-developer/ Flourish is a next-generation platform for data visualisation and
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Authors retract much-debated blockchain paper from F1000(retractionwatch.com)
2 points by annapowellsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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by annapowellsmith 10y ago
This re-submission has more comments, including from the developers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13164058
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Radio Garden(radio.garden)
13 points by annapowellsmith 10y ago|4 comments
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Amid Public Feuds, a Venerated Medical Journal Finds Itself Under Attack(propublica.org)
1 points by annapowellsmith 11y ago|0 comments
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Too many medical trials move the goalposts. A new initiative aims to change that(economist.com)
64 points by annapowellsmith 11y ago|11 comments
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by annapowellsmith 11y ago
The Indonesian government's attempts to stop burning are hindered by a lack of proper land ownership data. From the Jakarta Post: "The one-map policy — a comprehensive map of land ownership to provide clarity on the exact boundari
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Cat Petting Machine(youtube.com)
6 points by annapowellsmith 12y ago|5 comments
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D3-jetpack: Nifty convenience wrappers that speed up your daily work with D3.js(github.com)
1 points by annapowellsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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Fictional bridges on Euro banknotes constructed in the Netherlands(dezeen.com)
4 points by annapowellsmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by annapowellsmith 12y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! No, it's not mine - I don't know who runs it. Just thought it was a great use of data.
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Recent Train Times(recenttraintimes.co.uk)
59 points by annapowellsmith 12y ago|23 comments
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by annapowellsmith 12y ago
https://www.google.com/maps?output=classic
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Using statistics to find the nicest (and nastiest) food at Waitrose(anna.ps)
4 points by annapowellsmith 13y ago|0 comments

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