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Stephen Goforth
There's a way to delete the frightening amount of data Google has on you – CNET
Gmail’s New Encryption Can Make Email Safer—Here’s Why You Should Use It – Lifewire
Google Takedown form – Google Support
Should you log in with Facebook or Google on other sites or apps? Short answer: No. – Washington Post
How to delete Google search history – Laptop Mag
No matter how chaotic the past has been, the future is a clean, fresh, wide open slate. You are not your past habits. You are not your past failures. You are not how others have at one time treated you. You are only who you think you are right now in this moment. You are only what you do right now in this moment.
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How to scrub yourself from the internet, the best that you can
The Washington Post’s Privacy Reset Guide
Use a second number to keep your real phone number hidden
PEN America offers some advice on keeping your accounts safe (video)
What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app
Test Your Online Security Setup
When to Use a VPN—and When It Won’t Protect Your Data
The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
Jumbo attempts to maximize your privacy settings across apps, and has free and paid versions.
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2022 - FlowingData
New York Times “visual stories” 2022 - New York Times
Axios Visuals: 2022 in review - Axios
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A ChatGPT-assisted paper is posted to the arXiv. The topic is AI use in drug discovery and the authors conclude, “AI has the potential to revolutionize the drug discovery process.”
The paper is an example of how the ChatGPT bot might be used in academic papers and offers a potential model for AI-assistance transparency. Their conclusion:
As a result of this experiment, we can state that ChatGPT is not a useful tool for writing reliable scientific texts without strong human intervention. One of the main reasons why this AI is not yet ready to be used in the production of scientific articles is its lack of ability to evaluate the veracity and reliability of the information it processes. A real risk is that predatory journals may exploit the quick production of scientific articles to generate large amounts of low-quality content. Overall, addressing the risks associated with the use of AI in the production of scientific articles will require a combination of technical solutions, regulatory frameworks, and public education.
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Studies show that the parts of the brain that are primarily responsible for generating feelings of pleasurable excitement become active when people imagine receiving a reward such as money in the near future but not when they imagine receiving the same reward in the far future.
If you’ve ever bought too many boxes of Thin Mints from the Girl Scout who hawks her wares in front of the local library but too few boxes from the Girl Scout who rings your doorbell and takes your order for future delivery, then you’ve experienced this anomaly yourself. When we spy the future through our prospectiscopes, the clarity of the next hour and the fuzziness of the next year can lead us to make a variety of mistakes.
Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
The steps to protect your accounts with these tech companies by adding two-step security:
On the web, where a witches’ brew of advertisers, lobbyists, conspiracy theorists and foreign governments conspire to hijack attention, the same strategy spells doom. Online, critical ignoring is just as important as critical thinking.
That’s because, like a pinball bouncing from bumper to bumper, our attention careens from notification to text message to the next vibrating thing we must check. A flood of information depletes attention and fractures the ability to concentrate.
Sam Wineburg writing in The Conversation
The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely. -C.K. Brightbill
A Pandas DataFrame cheatsheet for exploratory analysis & data manipulation
Five ways that data roles will change in 2023 related to Chief Data Officers
10 weird things about SpaceX's more than 3,000 Starlink satellites (and that number keeps growing)
Initial specific steps toward launching a machine learning project
Adobe has just released a remarkable and free AI-powered enhanced speech tool
The four biggest trends they expect to shape the AI landscape in 2023
Synthetic data applications, limitations & vulnerabilities
A guide to the roles and responsibilities on a data migration team
A tech journalist goes back to high school to find out what OpenAI’s Chatbot can pass AP Lit
How Bayesian network structure learning can incorporate missing data
Potential uses of ChatGPT for data scientists
McKinsey on the state of AI since the research firm began tracking it five years ago
Different kinds of geospatial specialists are needed in different situations
China outpaces efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to harness power of publicly available data
The Space Dev Agency’s first major satellite launch has been delayed again
A look under the hood: How does ChatGPT work internally?
Some basics about the new AI called ChatGPT
Why Neural Network explainability is important, how to do it, & the tools for it
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Mark Twain (born Nov. 30, 1835)
When you don't need to compare yourself to other people, you gravitate towards things that you instinctively enjoy doing, and you're good at, and if you just focus on that for a long enough time, then chances are very, very high that you're going to progress towards mastery anyway, and the fame and the power and the money and everything will come as a byproduct, rather than something that you chase directly in trying to be superior to other people.
If you were to go back to the three things that people need—mastery, belonging, and autonomy—I'd add a fourth, after basic necessities have been met. It’s the attitude or the worldview that you bring to life. And that worldview can be characterized, just for simplicity, in one of two fashions: One extreme is a kind of scarcity-minded approach, that my win is going to come at somebody else's loss, which makes you engage in social comparisons. And the other view is what I would call a more abundance-oriented approach, that there's room for everybody to grow.
Raj Raghunathan quoted in the Atlantic
Scammers are posting fake job openings on websites and are posing as recruiters in an attempt to steal everything from passwords to money and identities. Read some tips for spotting them in the Washington Post.
Circumstances are designed to make us aware of his presence. -Chuck Swindoll
If you are playing around with podcasts or just want to make great audio, Adobe has just released an AI-powered enhanced speech tool. It will increase audio clarity by removing background noise and make your voice sound way better—even if you used a not-so-great mic in a noisy room. Try it yourself here. A free Adobe account is required. Below is an audio example and a video explanation.
We all need a place we can call home – not just brick and mortar and four walls, but an atmosphere that is secure, where we feel completely comfortable with each other in the sureness that we belong, and that our happiness and well-being are of utmost importance to our partner. John Powell has captured the essence of this love in one sentence: “We need the heart of another as a home for our hearts.”
You are accustomed to spending time together without quarrels and recriminations, so that you feel safe with each other. At the same time, familiarity should never bred discourtesy. The courteous kindness we show our partners should be even greater than courtesy shown to anyone else.
Although warm affection seems as simple and uncomplicated as the comfort of an old shoe, it takes a measure of time and consistent behavior to build this love in your (relationship) – time spent in proving to each other that you can be depended on to be loyal, supportive and kind. In short, that you can be depended on.
It is possible to begin developing this love now, even if you have failed in the past. It will require forgiving and forgetting past mistakes. It will necessitate a practical decision to be one against the world. It must include consistent kindness in your daily behavior, for this is fundamental to the continuance of love.
Ed Wheat, Love-Life for Every Married Couple
There’s this erroneous notion that we’re team players, meaning we’ll work even harder for the team than we would for ourselves. But in real life we belong to five or six different teams, none of which provide this deep sense of belonging. You’re on the marketing team and I’m on the product team and we’re also on the quality team. We’re not solely devoted to a single team. Plus, coordinating teamwork—organizing meetings and such—causes about a 40 percent loss in productivity. And there’s another problem. There’s this concept that teams need to have good relationships between members in order to be high-performing. But a team that’s all chummy, with no discord, is often like a couple that’s burying something and not talking about it. Teams are going to be challenged, and they have to perform—and that sometimes requires yelling at teammates or doing something that pisses people off. Discord can be more associated with performance than harmony is.
Po Bronson quoted in Wired magazine
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