November 2016

http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-starcraft-ii-ai-research-environment/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav

Quotes

New Yorker

Repealing Obamacare, which has provided coverage to twenty-two million people, including Jim's family members; cutting safety-net programs; downgrading hard-won advances in civil liberties and civil rights - these things will make the lives of those left out only meaner and harder.

To a large extent, though, institutions closer to home are what secure and sustain our values. This is the time to strengthen those institutions, to better include the seventy per cent who have been forsaken. Our institutions of fair-minded journalism, of science and scholarship, and of the arts matter more now than ever. In municipalities and state governments, people are eager to work on the hard problems - whether it's making sure that people don't lose their home if they get sick, or that wages are lifted, or that the reality of climate change is addressed.

- Atul Gawande, "Health of the Nation"