Tens of thousands of sounds and sound effects freely available for your creations, courtesy of the @BBC!
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

Interesting… Amazon will pay you $20 to use your Prime unlimited photo storage… more pictures means more data for machine learning? https://petapixel.com/2024/02/14/amazon-will-pay-you-20-to-use-your-prime-unlimited-photo-storage/

Cybersecurity attacks exploit a security cavity: 3 million “smart” toothbrushes cause a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, certainly leaving a bitter taste in our mouths… https://www.notebookcheck.net/3-million-smart-toothbrushes-cause-millions-in-damage-due-to-DDoS-attack.800810.0.html

Great! UCSF is hiring a senior(Associate/Full) professor to join the Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics! Looking for “deep expertise in contemporary quantitative epidemiology, modern #causalinference, strong interest & track record in methods education.” https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04890

So cool! Entire University of California can access the entire O'Reilly Media for Higher Ed, w/ ~48,000 technical eBooks, videos, case studies, audio books, & 200+ publishers incl McGraw-Hill. I learned so many coding skills from those books over 30+ yrs! https://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2020/06/09/oreilly-for-higher-education-now-available-for-uc/

The UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy is recruiting a Chair, Dept of Clinical Pharmacy! Successful candidate will be nationally known & funded researcher, w/ interests in health services, outcomes research, implementation science, drug development, or other areas. https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04830

Sad to hear of the passing of Richard Olshen, Stanford University professor/statistician who created Classification and Regression Trees (CART). We had neighboring offices at one point; learned a lot from him. Rest in peace and may your trees always balance. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/12/richard-olshen-obituary.html?utm_source=pocket_reader

Great! 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free! https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/ from John Timmer Ars Technica

Amazing… CVS Pharmacy changing pricing strategy to follow Mark Cuban’s lead with Cost Plus Drugs! By Anna Wilde Mathews in The Wall Street Journal today. https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/prescription-drug-costs-cvs-pharmacy-56acb623?reflink=integratedwebview_share

Great! Amazon is offering #AI classes for free: “new initiative to give two million people access to free AI skills training by 2025… aims to offer a new generative AI course to more than 50,000 high school and university students.” https://lifehacker.com/tech/amazon-offering-ai-classes-for-free