Screen time doesn’t harm kids, but you should still keep an eye on it

Oct24
by on October 24, 2021 at 3:18 pm
Posted In: Plugged


A newly published study in the journal PLoS ONE suggests spending time on screens is unlikely to be directly harmful to young children. The US study attracted global attention, as screen time has been commonly blamed for disrupting the healthy habits of our youth. Headlines announced “Screens are not as dangerous as you think”, “Screens don’t really hurt kids”, “Kids are not harmed by long screen times”, “Potential benefits of digital screen time” and “Kids being glued to screens doesn’t cause anxiety”. However, we still need to be wary of health consequences, despite the absence of strong links between screen…

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9 time-saving tricks for your command line

Oct23
by on October 23, 2021 at 5:22 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized


How do you write great code? By being efficient. If you want to create something awesome, you’ll have to eliminate the time dumps that slow you down. With just a few tricks, you can speed up your work and focus on what matters. 1. Create aliases Every shell comes with a file called ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile. Which one you’ll use depends on your system. This post explains it in detail. Now think about commands that you use a lot. Typing them each time is arduous, and you can mess things up if you’re prone to making typos. That is what…

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Google channels Big Tobacco with dystopian research censorship

Oct22
by on October 22, 2021 at 9:44 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence, Google


In the wake of the firing of Timnit Gebru and other notable AI researchers at Google, Alphabet’s circled the wagons and lawyered up. Reports flow out of Mountain View depicting teams of lawyers censoring scientific research and acting as unnamed collaborators and peer-reviewers. Most recently, Business Insider managed to interview several researchers who painted a startling and bleak picture of what it’s like to try and conduct research under such an anti-scientific regime. Per the article, one researcher said: You’ve got dozens of lawyers — no doubt, highly trained lawyers — who nonetheless actually know very little about this technology…

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