Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco site, surprised its audience yesterday by announcing that it was shutting down. “Together we have built a strong community of followers, contributors, and partners. However, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations,” the site said in a post announcing its closure. “It’s been a great run…
The San Diego Padres made a series of stunning offseason acquisitions, including trades for Matt Kemp, Craig Kimbrel, Wil Myers and Justin Upton and the free-agent signing of starter James Shields. But one under-the-radar minor-league contract might be the team’s best move of all. At the O.C. Register, Steve Bisheff shares the sad story of…
The operation will be carried out by Italian surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero, in what he expects to be a 36-hour procedure involving 150 doctors and nurses. A Werdnig-Hoffman disease sufferer with rapidly declining health, Spiridonov is willing to take a punt on this very experimental surgery and you can’t really blame him, but while he…
Paul Tudor Jones—whose net worth is $4.6 billion—is one of the most famous hedge fund managers in American history. He is a heavy donor to Republicans. And he is warning of the possibility of class-based revolution in America. Also, he has some ideas. We will say this about Paul Tudor Jones: he is not the…
SALT LAKE CITY — Efforts by a former member of Warren Jeffs’ sect to retrieve her four children from a polygamous community led to a lengthy standoff after dozens of followers surrounded the woman’s van and some allegedly threw chickens at it. Deputies were in Colorado City, Arizona, for seven hours Friday until they received…
Income inequality is tearing apart the social fabric of the U.S., and plenty of people—not unreasonably—blame big corporations. Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, founder of a hedge fund and the much-lauded Robin Hood Foundation, which works on poverty-related issues in New York City, is worried. During a talk at this year’s TED Conference, he voiced his…
A small rebellion against the American higher education system is gaining steam. On Tuesday, a group of strikers and organizers who call themselves “the Corinthian 100” met with officials from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Department of Education and the Department of Treasury to demand that their federal student loans be forgiven. The…
Sterling Archer of FX’s “Archer” is practically a walking AP Literature text book. As the world’s most well-read secret-service agent, he knows the texts of “Animal Farm” and “Of Mice and Men” — even the works of French Philosopher Peter Abelard dating back to the 12th century — like the back of his hand. Or, well…
The Blurst of Times A genetic algorithm experiment — @joshmillard This script creates a series of virtual monkeys, each with its own genetic pre-disposition to whack certain sets of keys on a typewriter in a certain order. Each generation of monkeys competes to see who can produce output closest to the target sentence;…
Apple Watch and the induced demand of communication APR 08 2015 Some sort of embargo seems to have lifted because here come the Apple Watch reviews! As I’m unanointed by Apple, I haven’t experienced Apple Watch in the flesh, but I do have a few random thoughts and guesses. John Gruber notes that why Apple…