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Having taught quantitative & qualitative statistics, managed team-taught research methodology courses, written code for websites and online courses, and also been the team leader for large-group general ed. undergraduate courses on moral dilemmas using Carol Gilliland's "In a Different Voice," I find this ongoing debate and series of papers & responses very interesting. A lot is at stake here! Read carefully & tread thoughtfully.

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Melinda Gates and Fei-Fei Li Want to Liberate AI from “Guys With Hoodies”

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“They can tumble down in a New York second,”

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Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War'

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That requires some rhetorical subtlety, which is something Trump is just not capable of. Here’s more evidence: Trump’s insistence that the Republican plan will give people “much lower deductibles” is absolutely false — in fact, every extant Republican plan promotes higher deductibles, as a way of forcing people to become aggressive health-care shoppers because they have “skin in the game” and, thereby, through the magic of the market, driving down costs.

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Saturday's Women's marches ( following Trump inauguration ) includes one in London

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Northern Line extension: Tunnelling work on £1.2bn extension to Battersea to begin in March - Evening Standard // London's huge transportation construction project that's created current and future jobs ... reading & comparing project to tunneling project in Seattle.

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But that only covers the human response to the president-elect’s posts. Each Trump tweet also activates thousands of computer algorithms: Stocks are instantly bought and sold and emails fired off — even electrical currents are affected. (There’s even an app that alerts investors when Trump tweets about companies.) Though it’s impossible to know just how many high-frequency-trading algorithms are moving shares on the basis of @realdonaldtrump, one measure of the magnitude of his Twitter feed’s algorithmic influence is the Internet service IFTTT.

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Pausing to remember the day. Was across the street that day with Jenny Franklin and weary & Jerry & Nancy Mann .