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Checkin UCLA Kerckhoff Coffee House
Month: February 2018
Checkin UCLA Mathematical Sciences Building
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic geometry notes
Checkin UCLA Ackerman Student Union
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🎧 This Week in Google 445 The Mortician’s Wife | TWiT.TV
Conspiracy theories arise online and off about the Florida school shooting. A Twitter bot purge significantly reduces the follower counts of conservative users, but Twitter claims it's not political. Google removes the 'view image' button from search results to appease photographers, and a federal judge says that embedding a tweet can be a copyright infringement. Has Google become too big? Plenty of examples featured in a New York Times article suggest that Google has been trying to suppress competition, prompting some critics to say the government should step in. Edible Arrangements also goes after Google because its competitors show up in search results. Google AI can now predict heart attacks through an eye scan. Jeff's number: 1,226,247, the number of people who signed the Change.org petition to revert to the old Snapchat. Kevin's pick: Secure Shell for coding on Chromebooks Joan's pick: Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
https://youtu.be/tPQRvduMrAM
👓 Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence | Politico
A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances, barring them from top-secret information.
Checkin President’s Row
Afternoon walk — with Lily
Following Johns Hopkins’ High School Film Contest & Festival
Johns Hopkins University's High School Film Contest and Festival is designed to showcase and reward the most exciting and remarkable work by high school filmmakers from around the USA and around the world. Only high school students under the age of 18 may submit work to this contest and festival. We are committed to finding the filmmakers of tomorrow, today, bringing them to Baltimore, and showcasing their work at the historic Parkway Theatre. We offer prizes for Grand Prize, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Comedic Short, Best Dramatic Short, and Best Experimental Short. We also offer a Best Maryland-Made Short prize, a prize for Best Short With a Budget under $250, and a cash Audience Choice Prize. We also offer free workshops with industry professionals during the festival. Submit today!
📖 Read pages 40-47 of Japanese from Zero! 1
📖 Read pages 40-47, Lesson 1–Hiragana あいうえお, of Japanese from Zero! 1: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals (Volume 1) 6th Edition by and (From Zero!, , ISBN: 978-0976998129)
Spent some time working on improving my actual writing skills as well.
So far I’m really liking this book after having looked at a list of many others over the past year. It quickly covers a lot of simple stuff that was otherwise hard won by reading bits and pieces of other books. They do an exceptionally good job of laying out the beginning pieces. I appreciate some of the workbook like exercises which make this a better book for a much broader range of learners.
Checkin Foster’s Family Donuts
Donut time
📖 Read Arthur’s Loose Tooth by Lillian Hoban
Arthur, afraid of pulling his loose tooth, and his little sister, Violet, learn something about being brave in the seventh adventure about two favorite chimps.
Not as solid as the Francis series, though this did have one or two nice moments. The illustrations were a bit too simplistic and much less realistic than they could have been.
How does a kid with only one tooth manage to loose it before he has more?!
I’m not sure which book I liked less, this or The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist. Though that one did have an entertaining set of pages which included an instrument that was colloquially called the “Yankers!”
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Favorite quote:
“What!” said Arthur. “I am not scared to go upstairs in the dark!”
“I know,” said the baby-sitter. “But sometimes I think you are scared of a little soap and water.”
📖 Read Arthur’s Birthday Party by Lillian Hoban
Arthur is having a gymnastics party for his birthday, with prizes for balancing, tumbling, and rope climbing. Arthur is sure that he will win the prize for best all--around gymnast. But his little sister, Violet, and her friend Wilma have been practicing-and they may have a surprise in store....
Simple to read and a vaguely interesting plot. Not as good as the Francis series though. Nothing funny here.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
👓 Meet Vero: Why a billionaire’s Instagram alternative is suddenly so popular | Mashable
What you need to know about Vero.
It looks like a very slick app that could replace way more than just Instagram. It’s got bookmarks/links, music, watches for movie/tv, read related posts for books, location, and photos as post kinds in addition to a variety of audiences. If it had broad based status updates and articles…
Of course it’s still early days for it, and all platforms change drastically as they grow without the customer’s real control of them. #justanothersilo
👓 Posting my phone’s battery status to my site | Dries Buytaert
Working towards being able to publish notes and photos from my phone
This functionality seemed eerily familiar to me as I began to read, but the really interesting part is the reason he did it.