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| May 2, 2020 | » | Health Ethics
3 min; updated Mar 22, 2023
Faster Human TrialsIn 1986, AZT (AIDS treatment) showed 1/145 deaths compared to the placebo’s 16/137. 6,000 AIDS patients were offered AZT, helping it get to the public much faster. ... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | » | Tracking and Data Collection
4 min; updated Feb 12, 2023
Tracking on the Internet. The red boxes show content (at least the visible ones) served by third parties.](/img/computer-science/cos432-information-security/14-privacy/third-party-online-tracking-2012.png){kind=tracking} When the browser requests a third-party resource embedded on a web page, the snippet below is a subset of the HTTP headers sent by the browser to the third party. ... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | » | Wall Street Potpourri
4 min; updated Jan 21, 2023
Maximizing the Value for ShareholdersSuing a company for not following its code of ethics and therefore misleading investors doesn’t fly, but Signet Jewelers settled for $240m . Signet’s 70k female employees sued for discrimination, but the class action is yet to be resolved. Tom Toro’s New Yorker cartoon : Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. ... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | » | Thoughts on Academic Research
7 min; updated Dec 3, 2022
Why Even Read Papers?While tutorials and docs help you write code right now, the academic papers can help you understand where programming came from and where it’s going. You also understand the paths that foundational academic research did not take. There’s a lot of things that are old that are new again, over and over and over. The idea of Stack Overflow is that someone else has had your problem before; the idea of academic papers is that someone else has thought about this problem before. ... |
| May 21, 2018 | » | Bad Blood [Book]
(27 items)
00. Prologue; 01. A Purposeful Life; Bad Blood [John Carreyrou]; 02. The Gluebot; 03. Apple Envy; 04. Goodbye East Paly; 05. The Childhood Neighbor; 06. Sunny; 07. Dr. J; 08. The miniLab; 09. The Wellness Play; 10. Who Is LTC Shoemaker?; 11. Lighting a Fuisz; 12. Ian Gibbons; 13. Chiat\Day; 14. Going Live; 15. Unicorn; 16. The Grandson; 17. Fame; 18. The Hippocratic Oath; 19. The Tip; 20. The Ambush; 21. Trade Secrets; 22. La Mattanza; 23. Damage Control; 24. The Empress Has No Clothes; Epilogue; |
| Sep 18, 2018 | » | On DNA Testing
3 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
The human genome has sequences of nucleotide base pairs that are repeated over and over again. At each locus of interest, a person has two sets of repeats inherited from each parent. Each possible difference at a locus is an allele. The combinations of the possible differences at multiple loci form a DNA profile that can be used to tie suspects to a crime scene. The Accuracy of DNA Testing is Wanting74/108 crime labs erroneously incriminated a suspect during a mock study. The reported match statistic for whether the match was coincidental varied over 100 trillion-fold. ... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | » | Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit
1 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit.
Natasha Singer; Mike Isaac.
Illinois’ biometric privacy law requires companies to obtain written permission before collecting a person’s biometrics. Residents have the right to sue for up to $5,000 per violation. Facebook’s Tag Suggestions harvested facial data without getting written consent nor telling Illinois users for how long the data would be kept. ... |
Harden, a liberal behavior geneticist, is publishing a book, “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality”. Watch this space as it casts doubt on prevailing social justice thesis that environmental factors, and not genetics, influence behavior or social outcomes.
Check back in Sept 2022 (one year from now).