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[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

http://traffic.libsyn.com/dataskeptic/sentiment-analysis.mp3?dest-id=201632

「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.

- 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.