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What Is America’s Secret Space Shuttle For? - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/why-so-secretive/525969
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/mt/2017/05/RTS15J3C/facebook.jpg?1494352871

The news that the military had a space shuttle quietly orbiting Earth for more than 700 days came as a surprise (…)
The Air Force has two X-37B spaceplanes, and they’ve flown before—three times, in fact, since 2010. Their mission is to “demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space test platform” for the Air Force,

#espace #armée #navette #États-Unis

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#pouetRadio - Comment ça marche ?
▻http://pouetradio.nursit.com/comment-ca-marche

Le site récupère et archive les Pouets de ▻https://mamot.fr/tags/pouetradio et de ▻https://mamot.fr/tags/tootradio et les présente dans une timeline temporelle unique, avec un player permettant de jouer tous les morceaux proposés par les mastonautes depuis une seule page.

#SPIP #Mastodon #astucieux #musique par cerdic

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A Breathing Earth — Nadieh Bremer
▻http://www.datasketch.es/april/code/nadieh
http://www.datasketch.es/april/code/nadieh/img/breathing_earth_week_23.jpg

#cartographie #beau, utilisant #pixi.js pour gérer le #WebGL, et #d3.js pour gérer les données.

#datasource ▻https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/vci/VH/index.php

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Hexmaps for the world - Damian Spangrud - GeoHipster
▻http://geohipster.com/2015/12/18/13-maps-in-13-days-damian-spangrud
http://geohipster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Goode-Homolosine-projection-map-by-Damian-Spangrud.png
http://geohipster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Hex-mapping-by-Damian-Spangrud.png

#cartographie #projections #hexagones

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Retour sur le 13 mai 1985 : la police de Philadelphie bombarde une maison et interdit aux pompiers d’éteindre le feu… 11 morts, dont 5 enfants, 60 logements détruits. Pas une sanction, sauf contre les victimes du « raid ».

Ramona Africa Talks MOVE, Liberation and Surviving 1985 Bombing
▻http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Ramona-Africa-Talks-MOVE-Liberation-and-Surviving-1985-Bombing-20170320-0
http://www.telesurtv.net/__export/1490057529800/sites/telesur/img/opinion/2017/03/20/ramona_africa_full.jpg_1810791533.jpg

And not one single official, on any level, was ever held accountable, ever charged with a single crime against MOVE. But yet, you have the MOVE 9 being called murderers and being imprisoned for 38 years, working on 39 years now. Meanwhile, the people that murdered 11 of my family members, publicly on May 13 of 1985, not one of them was ever held accountable.

#répression #États-Unis #racisme #prisonniers_politiques #histoire (récente)

Philadelphia’s Osage Avenue police bombing, 30 years on : ’This story is a parable’ | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/13/osage-avenue-bombing-philadelphia-30-years
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Visual Vocabulary
▻http://ft-interactive.github.io/visual-vocabulary

There are so many ways to visualise data – how do we know which one to pick? Click on the coloured categories below to decide which data relationship is most important in your story, then look at the different types of chart within the category to form some initial ideas about what might work best. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, nor a wizard, but is a useful starting point for making informative and meaningful data visualisation

#visualisation_de_données

Journalist <match> Data Scientist – 100000 Arrows – Medium
▻https://medium.com/100000-arrows/journalist-match-data-scientist-58572ad39fe

Let’s consider a hypothetical, you’re a (potentially freelance) journalist who has an idea for an article. The article involves some data analysis as part of the story. Let’s also assume that your technical skills in data acquisition and analysis are not satisfactory for the task (…)
I expect there are slews of Data Scientists who’d be interested in assisting with this sort of work

Bryan Bischof propose de mettre en relation des journalistes qui veulent analyser des données avec des analystes qui veulent sortir un peu de leurs chiffres de vente.

#bonne_idée #data #journalisme

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Chinese migrants have changed the face of South Africa. Now they’re leaving. — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/940619/chinese-traders-changed-south-africa-now-theyre-leaving
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/a-sign-at-the-entrance-of-china-city-johannesburg-e1493121951845.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1591

“What’s the point of working in South Africa where it is more dangerous and lonely when you could be making the same wage in China?” says Mingwei Huang, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, echoing sentiments expressed by traders during her research at the China malls.
An estimated half a million to more than 1 million Chinese live in Africa, many of them small-scale traders and entrepreneurs. Chinese traders in African countries from Botswana to Senegal are also struggling to make a profit in the once booming trade of importing cheap goods from China—a sign that the best days of an industry involving thousands of African and Chinese traders, agents, and middlemen across Africa and China might be over.

#chine #frique_du_sud #commerce #xénophobie #rand

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The credibility crisis in research: Can economics tools help?
▻http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001846
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/figure/image?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001846.g001&size=inline#.jpg

The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scientific methods that can help evaluate research reforms. Here, we review these methods and show their potential.

#théorie_des_jeux #recherche #bibliométrie #fraude_scientifique

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Que s’est-il réellement passé ce 1er mai 2017 ?
▻https://lundi.am/Que-s-est-il-reellement-passe-ce-1er-mai-2017

Le ministère de l’intérieur évoque deux policiers à l’hôpital. Les street médics font état de dizaines de manifestants blessés.

« ▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/05/01/97001-20170501FILWWW00185-1er-mai-le-ministre-de-l-interieur-denonce-les-ca »
« ▻http://www.police.cgt.fr/IMG/pdf_02-05-2017_Nous_condamnons_l_odieux_tweet_de_la_CGT_Publicis_visant_n »
« ▻http://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/video/des-policiers-blesses-lors-des-manifestations-du-1er-mai-temoignent-940445.ht »
« ▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/05/01/01016-20170501ARTFIG00094-des-violences-a-paris-lors-du-defile-du-1er-mai.p »
« ▻http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75005/paris-tags-vitrines-brisees-et-casse-sur-le-parcours-de-la-manif-01-05-20 »
« ▻http://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2017/05/02/manifestations-du-1er-mai-au-c-ur-du-black-bloc_5120915_1653578.html »
« ▻https://making-of.afp.com/la-torche-humaine »
« ▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/videos/r0spll.DGT/1er-mai-de-nouvelles-images-montrent-la-violence-des-heurts-ent »

#Cancer is… Attacking Africa | iPRI
▻http://www.i-pri.org/cancer-is-attacking-africa-updated-22-min-version

Half of the continent has no radiotherapy machines. Another half do not have access to opioid drugs meaning that patients in those countries are dying in agony.

This 22-minute version of the full 59-minute documentary ’Cancer is Attacking Africa’ aims to make the key policy arguments for ACTION. Use this version freely to advocate for change in the fight against cancer in Africa!

#Afrique #santé #morphine #accès_aux_traitements #film #documentaire #datasource

(attention le film est très dur)

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwe4216RIIw

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Breastfeeding policies are a barrier to trade? The U.S. trade office thinks so - by Marion Nestle (Food Politics)
▻http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/05/breastfeeding-policies-are-a-barrier-to-trade-the-u-s-trade-office-thi

The Trump administration wants to get rid of these “technical trade barriers:”

– Hong Kong draft code designed to “protect breastfeeding and contribute to the provision of safe and adequate nutrition for infants and young children.” This, according to USTR, could reduce sales of food products for infants and young children.
– Indonesia: USTR wants to get rid of a draft regulation to ban advertising or promotion of milk products for children up to two years of age.
– Malaysia: USTR doesn’t like its code restricting corporate marketing practices aimed at toddlers and young children.
– Thailand: USTR wants to eliminate penalties for corporations that violate laws restricting the promotional, and marketing activities for modified milk for infants, follow-up formula for infants and young children, and supplemental foods for infants.

This is about protecting sales of infant formulas and weaning foods heavily marketing to mothers in developing countries as superior to breastfeeding, this despite vast amounts of evidence for the superiority of breastfeeding over any other method for promoting infant health.

#lait #commerce #États-Unis

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Sentiment analysis on Twitter using word2vec and keras - Ahmed Besbes
▻http://ahmedbesbes.com/sentiment-analysis-on-twitter-using-word2vec-and-keras.html

#machine_learning #text-mining #tutoriel #gensim #word2vec

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A False Facial Recognition Match Cost This Man Everything - Vocativ
▻http://www.vocativ.com/418052/false-facial-recognition-cost-denver-steve-talley-everything
http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2017/04/2017_04_24_DarkNet_FaceRecCanRuinLife2_facebook4045379518.png

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Born Rich: Children Of The Insanely Wealthy
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o46HH-TfNY

This documentary by Jamie Johnson (heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune) captures the rituals, worries and social customs of the current generation of Trumps, Vanderbilts, Newhouses and Bloombergs.

#riches #héritiers #film #documentaire

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Getting Started with Headless Chrome
▻https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome

#Chrome #Chromium #script #screenshots

Using headless Chrome as an automated screenshot tool
▻https://medium.com/@dschnr/using-headless-chrome-as-an-automated-screenshot-tool-4b07dffba79a
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*_CpBlpMj5Tw5DCbhRFSo3g.png

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How to communicate between #Python and #NodeJs

Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years. But, turns out, they were right — Quartz
▻https://qz.com/968692/luddites-have-been-getting-a-bad-rap-for-200-years-but-turns-out-they-were-right
https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/ludd_colorcorrected.jpeg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600

There are no factories to monkey wrench anymore. What are you going to do: burn down Facebook or Uber? Their products are software. Any similar software activity would take the form of not smashing a machine but smashing a piece of software. Hacking. It would look more like what Anonymous does.

#luddites #technologie #robotisation #travail #histoire

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Ethereum’s Boy King Is Thinking About Giving Up the Mantle - Motherboard
▻https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ethereums-boy-king-is-thinking-about-giving-up-the-mantle
https://video-images.vice.com/articles/58fcf1a12d91206629294e32/lede/1492973323042-IMG_5696.jpeg

Buterin’s politics reveal the origins of his belief in economic incentives. When I asked which political writers he’s interested in, he listed off the major libertarian thinkers: Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Sowell, Rothbard, Rand. He used to think that the world was a contest between “centralized, evil” politicians and corporations, he explained, and the “good, virtuous” people. But the political tumult of 2016 changed his mind—he now says he has more in common with Angela Merkel than with Trump supporters or militant anti-fascists. He doesn’t think everybody’s nice anymore; the world is split into “tribes,” he said, and the only way to make them work together is with money.

#Ayn_Rand #ethereum #bitcoin #crypto

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SPARTACUS — Howard Fast
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81YzSSza-1L.jpg

#livre lu à voix haute à Ines

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Font Map · An AI Experiment by IDEO
▻http://fontmap.ideo.com
http://fontmap.ideo.com/images/Font_Map.png

Font Map, a quick experiment to see how machine learning can address challenges in design.

#machine_learning #t-SNE #fonts

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Scientists Create the Most Successful Artificial Womb Yet
▻https://singularityhub.com/2017/04/28/scientists-create-the-most-successful-artificial-womb-yet
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7OsEGT9d3o

a plastic bag is a far cry from a uterus, no matter how many advanced systems it’s outfitted with. During pregnancy, a mother’s blood flows to her baby, giving the baby oxygen and clearing its lungs of carbon dioxide. This isn’t an easy process to re-create, not least because the blood pressure has to stay within a narrow range to avoid damaging the baby’s heart.

To clear these significant hurdles, researchers connected the lamb fetus’s umbilical blood vessels to an apparatus that oxygenated them. The baby’s heartbeat was able to power blood flow, eliminating the need for an external pump.

Besides the oxygenator, the Biobags have two other crucial components: continuous fluid exchange and an umbilical cord connection. Each Biobag is a single-use, closed, sterile environment, with liquid continuously flowing out of the bag to be purified—just as a mother’s kidneys would do during pregnancy.

#biobags #utérus_artificiel

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I didn’t hire François Hollande, and the rest is history – by Pierre Briançon
▻http://www.politico.eu/article/france-election-francois-hollande-a-little-joke-job-interview-political-obi
http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/GettyImages-145441055crop-1200x628.jpg

For decades, men like Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand or Jacques Chirac left the younger members of their party only small crumbs to feed their ambitions. As they were busy governing, the underlings were consumed by the small-town maneuvers and cynicism that, for them, came to encapsulate what politics is all about.

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Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities | Aeon Ideas
▻https://aeon.co/ideas/science-has-outgrown-the-human-mind-and-its-limited-capacities
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One promising strategy to overcome the current crisis is to integrate machines and artificial intelligence in the scientific process. Machines have greater memory and higher computational capacity than the human brain. Automation of the scientific process could greatly increase the rate of discovery. It could even begin another scientific revolution. That huge possibility hinges on an equally huge question: can scientific discovery really be automated?

#recherche #machine-learning #AI @anne

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Elephant tranquiliser behind US drug death epidemic now hitting UK streets, police warn | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fentanyl-carfentanil-carfentanyl-elephant-tranquiliser-uk-streets-dru
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#Carfentanil - used by vets to sedate elephants - and chemical cousin #fentanyl - with US street names ’drop dead’ and ’serial killer’ - are feared to be behind a spate of deaths in the UK

#drogues #UK #Europe

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