Via LLRX.com – Deep Web Research and Discovery Resources 2017 – This report and guide by internet guru Marcus P. Zillman provides researchers with a comprehensive and wide ranging bibliography of “deep web” data, information, documents, code, papers, applications and cutting edge tools. They may be used individually, in groups and in combination, as key… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Anatomy of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in Wake of Social Media
Anatomy of Scholarly Information Behavior Patterns in the Wake of Social Media. Hamed Alhoori, Richard Furuta, Mohammed Samaka, Edward A. Fox. “As more scholarly content is being born digital or digitized, digital libraries are becoming increasingly vital to researchers leveraging scholarly big data for scientific discovery. Given the abundance of scholarly products-especially in environments created… Continue Reading
NYT – The Year in Pictures 2016
The Year In Pictures 2016 – A selection of the year’s most riveting photographs Continue Reading
Safe Flight: 100 Years of Protecting Birds
Nature Conservancy – Safe Flight: 100 Years of Protecting Birds, By David Mehlman, Illustrated by Teagan White “While millions of people in the United States now call themselves bird-watchers, our popular fascination with birds once had more to do with gunning them out of the sky than adding them to a life list. In the… Continue Reading
World Bank Year in Review: 2016 in 12 Charts (and a video)
“Between the social, political, and economic upheavals affecting our lives, and the violence and forced displacement making headlines, you’d be forgiven for feeling gloomy about 2016. A look at the data reveals some of the challenges we face but also the progress we’ve made toward a more peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future. Here are 12… Continue Reading
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training
Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Josh Susskind, Wenda Wang, Russ Webb. (Submitted on 22 Dec 2016). Cite as: arXiv:1612.07828 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:1612.07828v1 [cs.CV] for this version) “With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the… Continue Reading
Public HTTP API for software developers to search geolocation of IP addresses
“freegeoip.net provides a public HTTP API for software developers to search the geolocation of IP addresses. It uses a database of IP addresses that are associated to cities along with other relevant information like time zone, latitude and longitude. You’re allowed up to 10,000 queries per hour by default. Once this limit is reached, all… Continue Reading
Top ten developments in international law in 2016
Oxford University Press Blog posting: “This year seems to have packed in more news events and shocking developments than any other in recent memory. As 2016 draws to an end, many are fearful of how the political trends that surfaced this year will play out and what their long-term effect will be on the international… Continue Reading
Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians
Original Investigation, December 19, 2016 – Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians. Full text PDF available free] Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD; Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD; Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH; et al E. John Orav, PhD; Daniel M. Blumenthal, MD, MBA7; Ashish K.… Continue Reading
The Induced Earthquake Database
“The Induced Earthquake Database (TIED) is the largest and most up-to-date database of earthquakes proposed to have been induced or triggered by human activity. The data are freely available to view online or can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel format for your own analysis. We endeavour to keep the database up to date and accurate.… Continue Reading
US Sues Barclays Bank to Recover Civil Penalties for Fraud in the Sale of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
News release: “The United States Department of Justice today filed a civil complaint in the Eastern District of New York against Barclays Bank PLC and several of its United States affiliates (together, Barclays), alleging that Barclays engaged in a fraudulent scheme to sell residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) supported by defective and misrepresented mortgage loans. As… Continue Reading
Regulating Software When Everything Has Software
Ohm, Paul and Reid, Blake Ellis, Regulating Software When Everything Has Software (November 16, 2016). George Washington Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 6, 2016. Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2873751 “This Article identifies a profound, ongoing shift in the modern administrative state: from the regulation of things to the regulation of code. This shift has… Continue Reading
