Author: Chris

Link List – February 23, 2018

I’m trying to use less social media, but as a voracious reader-and-sharer — the early 21st century equivalent to the hunter-and-gatherer — I now don’t have an easy outlet for sharing interesting things I discover. So, I’m going to start a regular thing here on my site where I collect some recent bookmarks and share them. No commentary, just the headline and a link.

America First | VICE News Tonight’s Special Report On Trump’s First Year In Office (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtHZVhxQPH8

Black Panther’s Director Is Very Into Stardew Valley Right Now
https://kotaku.com/black-panthers-director-is-very-into-stardew-valley-rig-1823243607

Design’s Lost Generation
https://medium.com/@monteiro/designs-lost-generation-ac7289549017

Homeopathy Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HslUzw35mc

The Things You Should Always Carry With You in Japan
https://lifehacker.com/what-you-should-always-carry-in-japan-1822670049

The File (Dis)connect
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=509

What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?
https://www.gq.com/story/what-ever-happened-to-brendan-fraser

The Case Against The Jedi
http://popculturedetective.agency/2018/the-case-against-the-jedi

Xbox chief calls for more inclusivity and an end to toxic gamers
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/21/17037172/xbox-phil-spencer-toxic-gamers-dice-2018-keynote

I’m building my dad a computer. Here is what we put together
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/QPdRsZ

Here are two things about maps on the Internet
https://kottke.org/18/02/mapping-apps-and-how-advertising-subtly-warps-user-experience
https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/

VLC 3.0 is out!
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html

Ride Review – Kawasaki Z900RS
http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/2018/02/ride-review-kawasaki-z900rs.html

Here are three games I’ve been playing recently
http://www.celestegame.com
https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com
https://www.guerrilla-games.com/play/horizon

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Early 2018 Programming Note

I’m not feeling well. Stressful things have been getting to me as of late. Some are small, some are large. The short-and-long of it is that I think I need to do something different to improve my health. So, a new year is as good as an excuse as any (and the timing just works). So I’m trying a few things. Friends, bear with me.

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Dangerous Data

I once worked on the data management team for a large healthcare provider. There is an incredible amount of power and possibility in using data to empower and enact dramatic changes – especially in large traditionally slow-moving organizations. That said, there is an inherent risk for our own individual and group biases to seep into the algorithm and output from such systems.

In this episode of TED Radio hour, “Can We Trust The Numbers?” computer and data scientists share some of the overlooked aspects of where data science can fail our good intentions.

“It’s more than you think. It’s about power because they get to decide what experiment. It’s about power because they get to math-splain. It’s also about power because they get to decide what success looks like.”

Bonus points for Kathy O’Neil coining the phrase, “Math-splain”.  😀

(via Jackie)