Directed by Peter Lauritson. With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn. While investigating the apparent death of Capt. Picard, Riker is abducted by a group of intergalactic archaeological thieves, only to find Picard has apparently joined their ranks.
Statuses
📺 "Murphy Brown" I (Don’t) Heart Huckabee | CBS
Directed by Pamela Fryman. With Candice Bergen, Tyne Daly, Nik Dodani, Faith Ford. Murphy devises a plan to sneak into a White House briefing; Phyllis hires a college student to help out at the bar.
This show seems awfully old and stodgy. I’m not a fan of what sounds like a laugh track or the slower pace that should be twice as snappy.
Apparently I’ve managed not to tape the first episode, so I’m starting in on episode two.
📺 Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS nomination | Washington Week | PBS
A partisan battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court dominated Washington this week. The panelists discussed how the nomination process got to this point, along with what this weekend's confirmation vote could like.
📅 RSVP to WordCamp Riverside 2018
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I have to go now… I’m going to be giving a talk at the Camp! Can anyone guess the topic?
Emergency electrical outage at the house this afternoon. Not sure what the issue is but they’re cleaning up some of the wires into the house while they’re here.
Attending the weekly Innovate Pasadena Friday Coffee Meetup to hear about The Future of Healthcare: Digital Health Becomes Personal.
Update after the talk
The presentation was interesting, but awfully dull. There was nothing I wasn’t aware of and nothing truly groundbreaking on the tech side. It’s actually a bit more of the same from the perspective of someone trying to use an app to improve public health. The futility of the process reminds me a lot of the issues that the edtech sector faces with people trying to innovate in education. Everyone seems to be falling into the same old traps and ultimately not making the massive difference they’re looking to effect.
It rarely, if ever, happens, but the presenters literally jammed out of the room before the event was completely over. Many were shocked by it.
📕 Read pages 177-231 of 288 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
📕 Read pages 177-231 of 288 to finish Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
Some generally solid overview of the earlier days of network science. Barabasi is a pretty solid general science writer and makes most of his ideas relatively clear. I’m hoping this is a good intro to some of the background for his new textbook on network science.
While some pieces and ideas seem dated, this was generally enjoyable without getting too deep into the weeds. Naturally there are many sections that could stand for updates, even just a decade or more later.
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RSVP for The Future of Healthcare: Digital Health Becomes Personal | Innovate Pasadena | Meetup
Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 8:15 AM at Cross Campus, 85 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA
While AI, VR, and AR are now revolutionizing healthcare from the operating room to medical education, most of this technology’s influence on the sector is not yet consumer facing. Wellness and activity apps abound, but true personalized health is not yet a reality. Stayhealthy CEO, John Collins, has been at the forefront of healthcare tech since 1998.
Today, Stayhealthy has partnered with Augmently, a leading creative tech agency, to leverage AR as a way to personalize healthcare by targeting the greatest health challenge of our time—excess body fat. Obesity is now the number one cause in the U.S. of cancer (in women), number two cause of cancer in men as well as for type 2 diabetes. If nothing is done to address this problem—and now with 70% of Americans considered overweight with excess fat—it has the potential of bankrupting the US economy. Educating and engaging consumers through patented biometrics technology with patented AR holds the promise of transforming the healthcare landscape by empowering individuals to make a difference in attaining wellness.
Reply to Andy Gonzalez about NIMBIOS Workshop
Andy Gonzalez (Twitter)Just discovered this collection of talks curated by @NIMBioS on #information and #entropy in biological systems. Thought I'd share cos this is an important topic. https://t.co/Sjf7LmHjFn
— Andy Gonzalez (@bio_diverse) October 4, 2018ping @mioconnor @JoeyBernhardt @ty_tuff @norberg_jon @resilienceSci @cboettig @CT_Bergstrom
— Andy Gonzalez (@bio_diverse) October 4, 2018
Andrew Eckford et al. hosted a related conference a few months prior at BIRS which also has some great videos:
Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory(14w5170)
Perhaps it’s time for a follow up conference?
Greg McVerry (jgregorymcverry.com)Long term I see it as potential revenue stream. I don’t believe in decentralized web. I believe in hyper local web. The newspapers or local libraries can be backbone. Provide dead simple publishing software on subscription, coupon newsletters, take back the marketplace from facebook.
The web is local news. Local news belongs to the people. thanks for what you do.
BTW here is library project I am working on https://checkoutmydomain.glitch.me
Greg, the outlet you’re thinking of is ColoradoBlvd.net, a local paper here in Pasadena, CA, which does support webmentions including backfeed of interactions with Twitter using Brid.gy. (Sadly Facebook’s API turned off their access to this sort of feature on August 1st.)
I’ve documented a piece of it here and there’s some detail on the IndieWeb for Journalism wiki page which I encourage everyone to contribute to as they can.
As for Ben Keith’s concern about spam, yes, Webmention can be a potential vector like trackbacks and pingbacks, but it does learn from their mistakes with better mitigation and verification. Work on the Vouch protocol/extension of Webmention continues to mitigate against these issues. I’ll also note that Akismet for WordPress works relatively well for Webmentions too, though there have still yet to be examples of Webmention spam in the wild.
For publishers using WordPress, there are some excellent plugins including Webmention (which has some experimental Vouch plumbing included already) and Symantic Linkbacks which work with WordPress’s native comments. I’ll note that they’re developed and actively maintained by several, including the core maintainer for pingbacks and trackbacks in WordPress.
I’m happy to help if anyone has questions.
📺 "Fresh Off the Boat" B as in Best Friends | ABC
Directed by Bill Purple. With Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler. The Huangs move in with Marvin and Honey then everyone gets on each others' nerves.
📖 Read pages 167-177 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
📖 Read pages 167-177 of 288 of Linked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
Presidential alert indeed! I’ve been on alert with this so-called President since November 2016. I’m not so sure about the “you don’t need to take action” part, however, which seems a bit gratuitous going into the midterms.