March 2021 Reading List

 

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  3/31/2021: 
• Processed Cheese is Hard to Love But Easy to Admire - NPR
• The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors - 6 percent
• Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained - Columbia House as an example, DETOUR - no design change experiments w/o consent for companies with over 100 million users.  What's it mean for A/B?  What's the difference between deceptive and optimized for the user?
• Bunch of work related reading on a product document, audience features, and deployment.  Hours of reading.
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  3/30/2021: Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright [400 pages]
• 3/29/2021: Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright [400 pages]
• 3/28/2021:
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 16 - The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar [48:40]
• 3/27/2021:
• 3/26/2021:
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 15 - Repairing the World by John Chu [48:30]
• 3/25/2021:
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 14 - Bonus Episode: Goat by James McBride [68:21]
• 3/24/2021:
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 13 - No Mans Guns by Elmore Leonard [49:37]
• 3/23/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 12 - The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu [52:55]
• 3/22/2021: Processed Cheese by Stephen Wright [400 pages]
• 3/21/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 11 - Navigators by Mike Meginnis [46:09]
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  3/20/2021: 
  • https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/03/15/machine-learning-causality/ 
  • I liked this statement "For instance, during the coronavirus pandemic, many machine learning systems began to fail because they had been trained on statistical regularities instead of causal relations. As life patterns changed, the accuracy of the models dropped."
  • Why machine learning struggles with causality
  • Machine learning systems thrive on finding and exploiting statistical regularities. This is why they can’t do causal reasoning.
  • I also like "we don't need to drive a car off a cliff to know what will happen" - reminds me of Dwight and Michael following the GPS despite what their eyes told them was wrong.
  • ML and computers in general can interfere with your native capacity for counterfactuals is probably an amusing area of study.
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  3/19/2021: [GAME] 7th Continent with my wife [first scenario/curse - we lost]
• 3/18/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 10 - 1000-Year-Old Ghosts by Laura Chow Reeve [35:06]
• 3/17/2021: Multicloud Deployments Surge as Microsoft Azure Duels with AWS
• 3/16/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 9 - Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Lesley Nneka Arimah [30:39]
• 3/15/2021: 5 Stages of Team Development Ever Leader Should Know
• 3/14/2021: Women's Month Panel [64:00]
• 3/13/2021: Notes on a Case of Melancholia, or: A Little Death by Nicholas Gurewitch [48 pages]
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  3/12/2021: 
• [GAME] Legacy of Dragonholt - Day 3
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 8 - The Second Bakery Attack by Haruld Murakami [44:44]
• 3/11/2021: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf [288 pages]
• 3/10/2021:
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 7 - Chivalry by Neil Gaiman [43:40]
• 3/9/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 6 - Graham Green by Percival Everett [52:47]
• 3/8/2021: My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf [224 pages]
• 3/7
  
  
  /2021: X-Men Grand Design III: X-Tinction [120 pages]
• 3/6/2021: 
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  The Heap by Sean Adams [325 pages]
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 5 - What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah [48:16]
• [GAME] Legacy of Dragonholt - Day 2
• 3/5/2021: 
• The 7th Continent: Setup and Rules [26:55]
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 3 - Empty Places Part One by Richard Parks [48:18]
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 4 - Empty Places Part Two by Richard Parks [36:25]
• 3/4/2021: 
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 1 - Kin by Bruce McAllister [36:24]
• LeVar Burton Podcast ep 2 - The Lighthouse Keeper by Daisy Johnson [33:54]
• 3/3/2021: 7th Continent - How to Play [33:53]
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  3/2/2021: After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard [part II of Carter and Lovecraft] 
• 3/1/2021: After the End of the World by Jonathan L. Howard [part II of Carter and Lovecraft] [361 pages]