Human folly for 02016-10-17

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• (planetcalc.com):

  A relative to absolute humidity converter, which depends on the air temperature and barometric pressure. Licensed cc-by-sa, as are most of the 455 calculators on the site, though much of the other content is in Russian. #calculator

• World Asia China (bbc.com):

  #China launches two taikonauts to #space station #Tiangong 2 on a Shenzhou-11 lifted by a Long March-2F at 07:30 local time from Inner Mongolia.

• World Europe (bbc.com):

  #Russia broadcaster Russia Today (RT) has all its #banking accounts in the #UK closed, effective December 12. #politics

• World middle East (bbc.com):

  #Iraq attack to retake Mosul begins; 4000 peshmerga, 30000 “pro-government troops”, tanks, Shia militiamen advancing, against 4000 to 8000 #Daesh troops. Daesh has held it since 2014. Arrival at Mosul expected in November or December. No mention of Turkey. #war

• Magazine (bbc.com):

  #Putin’s youth as a KGB agent in Dresden, East Germany, as the walls fell. #history

• Knocking Mosul door (aljazeera.com):

  #Iraq attack to retake Mosul begins; “hundreds of thousands of residents face imminent displacement.” Bashiqa is 20 km from Mosul. Lots of peshmerga photos. No mention of Turkey. #war

• Chinas factories in Shenzhen can copy products at Breakneck speed and its time for the rest of the world to get over it (qz.com):

  #Shenzhen #manufacturing #shanzhai knockoff products

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Another discussion thread about syncable, versioned #database Noms

• What has happened down here is the winds have changed (andrewgelman.com):

  Susan Fiske complaining about “methodological terrorists” tearing apart psychological pseudoscience based on misuse of statistics. #science

• No it is not illegal to read Wikileaks (popehat.com):

  On freedom of speech, #censorship, #Wikileaks, and #USA #law. #human-rights

• Hard fork in less than 24 hours upgrade your (reddit.com):

  The #Ethereum hard fork because of the #DAO #security breach is for tomorrow

• (sciencebulletin.org):

  Quantum computing is up to a dephasing time of 2.4 milliseconds using the spin of an electron coupled to a microwave EM field, but the number of operations that can be done within the dephasing time is only 5 to 10. #QC

• Next wave deep learning architectures (nextplatform.com):

  Intel tries to get ahead of the #deep-learning #hardware curve by acquiring Nervana and Movidius. #finance #business

• You can%27t stop the signal (worldpolicy.org):

  Mahmoud Salem tells the story of #Jan25 in #Egypt and the #Arab-Spring more generally

• ISIS on the run (newyorker.com):

  More on today’s attack on Mosul. Rebels from #Syria backed by #Turkey retook Dabiq this morning. Says the total anti-#Daesh forces are only about 30000. Also says the peshmerga number about 4000. #USA has 5000 troops in #Iraq overall, not just in this attack. #war