The July 27 Blood Moon will be the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century.
Check out the lunar eclipse on July 27! It will be magnificent. If weather doesn’t permit it, make sure to go and see the next one in January.
Although extremely useful for visualizing high-dimensional data, t-SNE plots can sometimes be mysterious or misleading. By exploring how it behaves in simple cases, we can learn to use it more effectively.
Working with t-SNE myself recently I found this post on Distill tremendously helpful. Especially the interactive part taught me what I could expect from this visualization method and what not.
Nice post by Glenn Fleishman about how to delete Time Machine snapshots on Mac. Ever since APFS, Timemachine snapshots are automatically generated and deleted if Hard Disk space becomes rare. However if you want to manage that yourself (as most powerusers tend to want) here’s your solution.
Nice informational post by Marco Arment about how the new Overcast 4.2 protects your privacy while listening to podcasts.
One of the ways publishers try to get around the limitations of the current model is by embedding remote images or invisible “tracking pixels” in each episode’s HTML show notes. When displayed in most apps, the images are automatically loaded from an analytics server, which can then record and track more information about you.
This is the first time I heard about tracking-pixels and I am horrified by the idea. As much as I am fascinated by data-analysis, I think this is just plainly wrong, one shouldn’t aquire data like this and I am convinced that these recent developments in podcasting are misguided.
Today leading scientists in Europe have designated a plan for a multinational European Artificial Intelligence Institute.
ELLIS will be a top employer in machine intelligence research, on par with Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, and MIT. It will also be a world class venue to get trained in the field: in conjunction with universities, it will develop a highly attractive European PhD program, and it will strive to retain the best graduates within ELLIS to groom them into the next generation of senior scientists.
Europe will be able to play a major role in the scientific and societal revolution that is underway.
Although some people may argue that it is already too late, I think it is worthwhile to put the effort and money into it.
Also Ian Sample from The Guardian wrote an interesting article about the development.