Human folly for 02015-12-12

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• Liber%20Brunoniana (liber-brunoniana.github.io.):

  an encyclopedia of Brown University has been automatically hypertextified using #machine-learning natural-language processing.

• Food preservatives linked to obesity and gut disease (nature.com):

  emulsifiers including polysorbate-80 and methylcellulose promoted inflammation in mice, possibly promoting inflammatory bowel disease and #obesity.

• (arxiv.org):

  #pdf #paper on “Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities,” such as trolling, flaming, bullying, and harassment. Although they don’t say it, it seems to be especially a study of #GamerGate.

• Case for ML (flint.cs.yale.edu):

  why #OCaml or other ML-family languages are good for writing compilers.

• 0583Ts (russell-j.com):

  Bertrand Russell on the rise of the Nazis (“The Triumph of Stupidity”).