Since 2018, Stories Unread has applied machine learning to the curation of stories and links from within the technology, startup and programming world. Scores are applied depending on how stories are shared online over the course of a week, but anything that ranks too highly elsewhere online during that time period is disregarded.

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Stories Unread issue 141

Since 2018, Stories Unread has applied machine learning to the curation of stories and links from within the technology, startup and programming world. Scores are applied depending on how stories are shared online over the course of a week, but anything that ranks too highly elsewhere online during that time period is disregarded.

 
 

#1: Data Broker Opt-Out List

From github.com with 262 ML score.

Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.

#3: On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide

From nature.com with 252 ML score.

Large earthquakes occurring worldwide have long been recognized to be non Poisson distributed, so involving some large scale correlation mechanism, which could be internal or external to the Earth. Till now, no statistically significant correlation of the global seismicity with one of the possible mechanisms has been demonstrated yet. In this paper, we analyze 20 years of proton density and velocity data, as recorded by the SOHO satellite, and the worldwide seismicity in the corresponding period, as reported by the ISC-GEM catalogue. We found clear correlation between proton density and the occurrence of large earthquakes (M > 5.6), with a time shift of one day. The significance of such correlation is very high, with probability to be wrong lower than 10–5. The correlation increases with the magnitude threshold of the seismic catalogue. A tentative model explaining such a correlation is also proposed, in terms of the reverse piezoelectric effect induced by the applied electric field related to the proton density. This result opens new perspectives in seismological interpretations, as well as in earthquake forecast.

#4: U.S. Border Patrol Bought 'Unlimited' Use of a Nationwide Tracking Database

From vice.com with 244 ML score.

A map and files obtained by Motherboard show Customs and Border Protection bought access to a license plate reader database that can locate vehicles far from the border region.

#5: Hungary's researcher Roska wins award for procedure that could cure blindness

From dw.com with 238 ML score.

Medical scientist Botond Roska has landed a €1 million check from Germany's Körber Foundation for his groundbreaking research. His gene-based treatment to restore sight has already entered clinical trials.

#6: The UK's online ID plans: expensive, intrusive, unnecessary

From theguardian.com with 230 ML score.

Of all the ways to reshape society after the pandemic, a digital identity system should not be anyone’s priority, says Gracie Mae Bradley of Liberty

#7: Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects

From bbc.com with 228 ML score.

Founder Reed Hastings says working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.

#8: Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change

From theconversation.com with 227 ML score.

The video game community on Twitch has taken a massive interest in chess. The young, irreverent gamers and the ancient world of chess are both transforming as their cultures collide.

#9: Secure email: Tutanota free encrypted email

From tutanota.com with 223 ML score.

#10: Topology from the Perspective of Category Theory

From topology.mitpress.mit.edu with 222 ML score.

#11: Backup PostgreSQL to Cloud

From abishekmuthian.com with 220 ML score.

#12: USBImager – A minimal GUI app that can write disk images to USB drives

From gitlab.com with 217 ML score.

A very minimal GUI app that can write compressed disk images to USB drives

#13: Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics

From github.com with 216 ML score.

Umami is a simple, fast, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics. - mikecao/umami

#14: REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)

From roy.gbiv.com with 216 ML score.

#15: Code Health: Make Interfaces Hard to Misuse (2018)

From testing.googleblog.com with 214 ML score.

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