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Sr. Staff Research Scientist at Google focusing on Machine Learning, HCI and Social Computing.
Sr. Staff Research Scientist at Google focusing on Machine Learning, HCI and Social Computing.

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The burkini ban in France is offensive in so many ways, and this is just one of them. 

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KFC recipe revealed? Tribune shown family scrapbook with 11 herbs and spices.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-kfc-recipe-revealed-20160818-story.html

Recipe to try. 

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As Donald Trump Repels Minority Voters, GOP Fears Its Future in the West.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/politics/donald-trump-minority-voters-hispanic-latino-west.html

Optimizing for the short term is bad machine learning, and it is also bad politics. 

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Facebook ditches helpful Trending Topic descriptions for global scale.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/26/confusing-topics/

Interesting quote: "it’s rare to see the company quite clearly degrade the usability of a product".

Disclaimer: I work for Google, which can be thought as Facebook competitor, but I also own Facebook stock. Moreover, I'm not saying whether I think this is good or bad, just providing a link for you to read and decide on your own. So don't get tied up in a knot.



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French court suspends burkini ban
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/26/europe/france-burkini-ban-court-ruling/


Love this quote:
"I find it quite chilling to see an image of a woman surrounded by men with guns being told to take her clothes off."

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HCI design solving racism problems on Nextdoor.
The "neighborhood social network" Nextdoor started to develop a nasty racism problem a while ago: people were using it to identify and discuss "suspicious behavior" among their neighbors which was often nothing more than "being in our neighborhood while dark-skinned." This started to become the reputation of the company - and the company decided to do something about it.

This article is about how minor user interface tweaks can profoundly affect user behavior. By injecting friction at the right point, you can significantly change how people behave - and in this case, substantially reduce the problem. It's a good lesson in UX design, and even more so a good discussion of how subtle cues shape people's behavior in a system.

h/t +Amber Yust​

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Here's What Parents Of Kids With Life-Threatening Allergies Think Of The EpiPen Price Increases.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/parents-kids-allergies-epipen-price_us_57c0b251e4b0267344502c4f

The EpiPen controversy is getting super heated. 

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Burkini, Yellow Badge, and the Stars of David: Have we not learned anything from history? Might we start seeing non-Muslims wearing burkinis as an act of civil disobedience on French beaches?

"In World War II, on the day that had been decreed by the Nazis for the Jews of Denmark to wear Yellow Stars of David on their clothing so that they could be singled out and identified, the King of Denmark took his morning horse ride wearing a Yellow Star of David himself. By that afternoon, the King’s message to the Danish people resulted in every Dane who was not a Nazi and a traitor wearing the Yellow Star of David. This act of civil disobedience made it impossible to implement the law."
http://janbtucker.com/blog/2010/04/26/fascism-coming-to-america/

[1] Here is an interesting picture of Nazi officers forcing someone to wear the Star of David:
http://isurvived.org/Pictures_iSurvived-4/humiliation-PolishJew2.GIF

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_badge

[3] Some other good ones:
http://www.bodzentyn.net/img/pages/history_ngo_01.jpg

[4] http://janbtucker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Yellow-Star-of-David.jpg

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Actually correct point of view. Big data folks should remember this.

Via +Greg Linden

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Hahaha! (^_^) This is indeed very much like how scientific presentations sound like.
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