I watched Beauty and the Beast this weekend, with my youngest.
He's not so young anymore, and it feels like these two toddlers aren't either. If you haven't seen this yet, watch ... It's a fascinating and funny time-lapse.
Two toddlers escaped their cribs and held a party in their bedroom.
By the way, Beauty and the Beast was pretty good. It's a faithful representation of the original cartoon, and a reminder that while children get older and technology changes, some things don't.
I think frameworks are an important tool. Here's one that seems to be in use a lot recently.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
The Great Canadian Wall is up in the north. Looks like it will hold till spring.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Recently, there's been a lot of talk about fake news and fact-checking the contents of the news and what public figure say. However, I haven't heard much about measuring the veracity of movies.
This site was kind of interesting.
It purports to rank the relative veracity of various movies.
For example, "Selma" is impressively accurate (as is "The Big Short") ... "The Imitation Game"? Not so much.
This interactive breakdown lets you be as "pedantic" as you want -- letting the "truth" be relatively flexible, or seating the truth-scale at "only what objectively happened".
So, where does your favorite film fall?
Pretty interesting.
With the explosion of Alternative Facts and Fake News ... It's important to remember to verify what you read.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Our non-human overlords haven't taken over yet.
However, A.I. is getting smarter faster.
Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles?
Google's Quick, Draw! will try and guess what you're drawing.
It did pretty well with mine, and I did not inherit my dad's artistic skills.
Try it by clicking below!
With technology becoming more ubiquitous ... perhaps Tweeting shouldn't be ...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
March Madness: The Last Perfect Bracket Busted After Just 40 Games
March Madness is in full swing, and it feels like everyone (and their mom) has filled a bracket. But how do they do it?
More importantly, how do the people that are successful do it?
The video, below, highlights the "Bracket Busters" of 2015.
via FiveThirtyEight
So, who were they? A 13-year-old who used a mix of guesswork and preferences, a 47-year-old English woman who used algorithms and data science (despite not knowing the game), and a 70-year-old bookie who had his finger on the pulse of the betting world.
Proof that different factors can lead us to believe we have control over something with odds at 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. For those who don't wanna do the math that's 9.2 quintillion.
That's not to say that different factors don't provide an edge. Knowing the history of the teams, their ranks, how they performed historically in the playoffs, all provide important information, to humans and machines that try to make the perfect bracket.
The way people fill out their brackets often mimics the way investors pick trades or allocate assets. Some use gut feel, some base their decisions on rank and past performance, and some use predictive models.
Just as an FYI, this March Madness, the last perfect bracket busted after just 40 games. This includes reporting on tens of millions of brackets from NCAA.com, Bleacher Report, CBS, ESPN, Fox Sports and Yahoo.
People aren't as good at prediction as they predict they are.
Something to think about.
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