Sugru, a versatile rubbery glue, rescues any number of products you’d otherwise throw in the trash can.

Originally shared by Stephen Shankland

Sugru, a versatile rubbery glue, rescues any number of products you’d otherwise throw in the trash can. It’s a fix for modern-day living — and it’s good for home improvement, crafts, and lots more. In the last week, I’ve used it to repair a zipper pull and earbud wires, install a toilet paper holder without buying a diamond bit to drill through marble, and brace a spring-loaded shower curtain rod that kept falling down.

Great article

Great article

Originally shared by Jeff Zahari

“But of course, there is a sense in which Israel is not free. It is trapped in a colonial conflict that its founders chose, unsentimentally. That trap is essential to the very constitution of the Israeli state, inescapably rooted in the project from the very beginning. A growing minority of Israeli intellectuals and journalists have seen where this is going. The Israeli historian Ze’ev Sternhell, whose Polish family was wiped out by the Nazis, has been warning for years that choosing conflict in perpetuity would fertilise the ground for fascism. He once said that only someone willing to crush the West Bank settlements with tanks could stop the fascist flood.”

More reasons why we can’t have nice things.

More reasons why we can’t have nice things.

Using machine learning to undetectably game recommendation systems as well as potential AI-based counter measures.

Using Yelp reviews as an example platform, we show how a two phased review generation and customization attack can produce reviews that are indistinguishable by state-of-the-art statistical detectors. We conduct a survey-based user study to show these reviews not only evade human detection, but also score high on “usefulness” metrics by users.