Some things I noticed 08/08/2020:
  1. Our iris-tracking model is able to determine the metric distance to the camera with less than 10% error, without any specialized hardware.
  2. Singapore’s police have been trialling two pilotless drones developed by Israel’s Airobotics to help enforce social distancing measures
  3. If Pompeo’s initiative is implemented, it means that the internet will be completely split between China and the US.” ?
    • “fact is US monitored European countries through PRISM, while no evidence so far China monitors the world through Huawei.”
  4. U.S. President Trump issued executive orders on Thursday banning any U.S. transactions with ByteDance and Tencent
  5. when you talk about anything universal, you have to consider, China itself has twenty percent of the global population
  6. with regard to Russia what we’ll end up doing is actually move forces further east
  7. In photos posted from the scene to social media, the plane appeared to have broken into at least two pieces.
  8. Current HUNTER×HUNTER hiatus now longest on record
  9. A short cgi render

Some things I noticed 08/04/2020:
  1. Eboracum
  2. He’d gotten involved in local politics.
  3. I’m not very religious but I prayed for this one.
  4. The plane is unusually thick. The crew agreed. They painted the word ‘chunky’ into the engine cowl.
  5. Human progress can be measured very precisely by how much energy we extracted from our environment
  6. The main cause of a population surviving or dying off was often the result of how quickly the environment changed.
  7. While coastal barriers delay the arrival of the wave, they also delay the departure of the inhabitants.
  8. This new structure would add world-class security, privacy, and digital safety protections.” ?
  9. Jacob Collier – Hallelujah, Running Outta Love
  10. That balance.

Some things I noticed 08/02/2020:
  1. Our skin is where we make Vitamin D.
  2. EU imposes the first ever sanctions against cyber-attacks
  3. The fact that a teenager could gain such access to Twitter goes to prove that the tech-giant needs to step up its game
  4. the Pentagon will soon update its decision awarding the contract to Microsoft over Amazon Web Services
  5. Microsoft is exploring an acquisition of TikTok’s operations in the U.S. Trump to direct China-based ByteDance Ltd. to divest its stake
  6. The F-22 was designed for battle in Europe and could face problems now that it had been deployed in the Asia-Pacific.
  7. People get there, and realise that they’re not the best anymore. So they say, okay, my role is not to change the world.
    • “The pressure to prove that you ‘lived up to your potential’ is an insidious side effect that no one talks about.”
  8. The artists today that are making it realise it’s about creating a continuous engagement with their fans; putting the work in
    • “as podcast grows, revenues are driven by podcasts too – that has implications for the share paid out to the music industry”
  9. Don’t remove community captions from YouTube
  10. The secret ingredient turned out to be a bi-metallic switch that would turn the cooker off by bending once the temperature exceeded 100℃.

Some things I noticed 07/01/2020:
  1. Theurgy, Proclus
  2. Indian government ban includes TikTok, apps from Xiaomi, Alibaba’s UC Browser and UC News; Shareit; CM Browser, Club Factory; and ES File Explorer.
  3. The UK and the US didn’t sign any treaties or formally transfer any money during this process. All of that would require congressional approval and public scrutiny.
  4. Russia wants to mass produce these floating power plants and achieve more efficient construction than is currently possible with nuclear power plants.
  5. matter has wave-like properties
  6. Generally speaking when you hear someone say that the transformer blew up, it didn’t, it’s just the fuse. When a fuse blows, it’s loud. It can be pretty aggressive.
  7. Iran had requested a ‘red notice’ be put out for Trump and the others, the highest-level notice issued by Interpol” ?
  8. Jolo municipal cops and a policeman assigned to the Sulu Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit shot dead 4 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
  9. Why the US has so many Filipino nurses
  10. Paola Hermosín — Preludio de la Suite no. 1 Para Cello

Some things I noticed 05/20/2020:
  1. Will happen, happening happened
  2. I had to live with the fact now that I had an opportunity to do a 9 G maneuver in an F-16, and I tapped out.
  3. Meanwhile, the insecurely attached will hone in on the d word and project accordingly. ?
  4. They’d frequently talk in the podcast about being broke girls in their 20s, which is relatable” ?
  5. Bob Iger steps down as Disney chief, replaced by theme parks head Bob Chapek
  6. Disney’s head of streaming Kevin Mayer join’s Zhang Yiming’s ByteDance as TikTok chief
  7. Open source software exemplifies dialectics really well
  8. “Is Romanian a romance language?” “Da!” ?
  9. Dividing the Middle East – The Great Loot
  10. What is a coronavirus?

Some things I noticed 04/21/2020:
  1. all we are ever able to do, it seems
  2. “the biggest threat has emerged in the form of America’s government
  3. “Sovereign currency issuers can conjure up unlimited funds, poor countries cannot. Their debts are foreign.”
  4. police will never come inside a private property unless invited by the owner or administrator”
  5. Bad call on the part of the poet. Sarcasm presupposes wit. Vastly overestimated her audience.
  6. In some abstract sense, the difference between Riemann integral and Lebesgue integral is like that between SQL and NoSQL.
  7. On the contrary, by producing endless “entertainment”, one could say “the West” rather prepared well
  8. The One That Goes Behind The Scenes
  9. “Their friendship provides a thin, wobbly dramatic peg, but just enough for Mr. O’Toole to show the younger guys out there how the thing is done properly.”
  10. Decoherence
    • “Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurtling through the void.”
    • “You’re here along with the rest of us to speed the entropic death of this planet. To service the chaos. We’re maggots eating a corpse.”