The podcast on a book I recently finished – The World Until Yesterday.
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「Video of the Week」Smart Restrooms!
And I am seeing smart restrooms at the railway station in Nanjing as well.
「Podcast of the Week」WSJ Instant Message: Google And Facebook Conferences, Face ID Ban In SF
[Announcement] break for 1 week
Was packing up and preparing to travel back to China for 3 month (May – August)
Will be back on May 12.
「Podcast of the Week」Data Skeptical: Sentiment Analysis
「Video of the Week」Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)
The week when Emerge Energy Services LP (EMSE) Enters into Restructuring Support Agreement
Noteholders under the note purchase agreement will receive new second lien secured notes and pro rata ownership interests in new common units representing a 95% limited partner interest in the Partnership.
Who Is Using Financial Mobile Apps
Paypal released its Venmo active users – 40M
Its’s very impressive compared with comparables.
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- JPMorgan: 51M
- Bank of America: 37M
- Wells Fargo: 30M
- Square Cash App: 15M
While there are different types of fee (revenue) in Venmo like instant transfer and merchant fees, I was wondering if Venmo could do ads as well – like Instagram.
「Podcast of the Week」a16z Podcast: So You Wanna Build a Software Company in Healthcare?
「Video of the Week」Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
Nature Article: Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
「Podcast of the Week」WSJ Instant Message: The Movies Come To You Now
We need more discussion on algorithms.. not only for social media feeds, but for jail sentences, racial bias and other sensitive issues.
To some extend, I think the ultimate justice should be “created”, not to be “applied” or “extrapolated”. If all cases are determined by algorithms, it’s gonna be a self-enforcing one and it will be hard to find what’s wrong.