— V. S. Naipaul, born in 1932
IT ALSO INSULTS HIS INTELLIGENCE AND MAKES HIM VERY ANGRY: Godfather Actor Gianni Russo on Cuomo’s Rant About ‘Fredo’: ‘His Father Would Smack Him.’
In Harvard Magazine Spencer Lee Lenfield considers 'David Damrosch's literary global reach' at some length, profiling the leading world-lit man in A World of Literature.
Great quote, right at the start:
IT ALSO INSULTS HIS INTELLIGENCE AND MAKES HIM VERY ANGRY: Godfather Actor Gianni Russo on Cuomo’s Rant About ‘Fredo’: ‘His Father Would Smack Him.’
In Harvard Magazine Spencer Lee Lenfield considers 'David Damrosch's literary global reach' at some length, profiling the leading world-lit man in A World of Literature.
Great quote, right at the start:
I work mostly on literature between roughly 2000 and 2015. But '2000' means 2000 B.C.E
Jeanne Whalen, via The
Washington Post
China’s drive to
dominate a field with big economic and military applications outpaces some U.S.
stridesShe Had Trouble Finding Dance Classes Online — So She Founded A $600 Million Startup
Payal Kadakia, New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrant chemists, got a degree from MIT while setting up one Indian dance group and worked a professional job at Bain & Company while launching and running another. In a Q&A, she recounts how, as a way to address one of her biggest frustrations as a New York dancer, she built ClassPass. – The New York Times
“If you want to have a healthy society, people need to believe there is justice and accountability for people who do bad things. The problem in this society is that it’s a really bottom-heavy system.”
Phys.org: A small team of researchers at Indiana University has created the first global map of labor flow in collaboration with the world’s largest professional social network, LinkedIn. “The work is reported in the journal Nature Communications. The study’s lead authors are Jaehyuk Park and Ian Wood, Ph.D. students working with Yong Yeol “Y.Y.” Ahn, a professor at the IU School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering in Bloomington. According to the researchers, the study’s result represents a powerful tool for understanding the flow of people between industries and regions in the U.S. and beyond. It could also help policymakers better understand how to address critical skill gaps in the labor market or connect workers with new opportunities in nearby communities. The study showed some unexpected connections between economic sectors, such as the strong ties between credit card and airline industries. It also identified growing industries during the study period from 2010 to 2014, including the pharmaceutical and oil and gas industries—with in-demand skills such as team management and project management—as well as declining industries, such as retail and telecommunications…”
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Audio data from customer-service calls is also combined with information on how consumers typically interact with mobile apps and devices, said Howard Edelstein, chairman of behavioral biometric company Biocatch. The company can detect the cadence and pressure of swipes and taps on a smartphone.How a person holds a smartphone gives clues about their age, for example, allowing a financial firm to compare the age of the normal account user to the age of the caller.
Facial recognition software mistook 1 in 5 California lawmakers for criminals, says ACLU MSN (Kevin W)
awario: “Boolean search is an advanced and effective way to work with almost all search engines. It allows users to combine keywords with Boolean operators (AND, OR, AND NOT and etc.) and find exactly what you’re looking for. With Boolean operators you can configure more specific queries, create multiple combinations, modify existing requests and do many other crazy things that are not available in a simpler search mode. Moreover, you can even use it for lead generation”… [Note: librarians have been using Boolean search for many decades – long before the internet, apps, social media, and “social listening” were in the frame…see also related posting – Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65.]
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NBC:
- “Seeking to shield themselves from online hatred, some Twitter users say they’ve switched their account locations to Germany where local laws prevent pro-Nazi content.
- While German laws make it harder for explicitly hateful content to remain online, local researchers say it is not a hate-free internet utopia.
- Germany has imposed stricter laws on social media companies about content moderation as some conservative American lawmakers have criticized the companies of showing bias in their content removal decisions…”
How to nail applied neuroscience
It won’t make them mind readers, but neuroscience is helping companies to understand customer behaviour in ways not previously possible
University of Texas at
Austin, via PhysOrg
Researchers looked at
the Ashley Madison records of police officers, financial advisers, white-collar
criminals, and senior executives.Watch Brené Brown on Daring Classrooms
Why aren't we happier in our skin?