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Would you trust AI to predict your future life events?

Open Access Government - Technology News

The research project, outlined in the recent Nature Computational Science article titled ‘Using Sequences of Life-events to Predict Human Lives,’ introduces a cutting-edge model named life2vec. The post Would you trust AI to predict your future life events? AI prediction: What is Life2vec?

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

How about a month long "Doors Open" event during Black History Month. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide. It's not exactly the same, but Georgetown Glow, an outdoor sculpture walk in December and January is growing into a great event. In North America, Doors Open Toronto is probably the biggest.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same is true of some of the earlier events, such as the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. He looked gloomy and said that the most likely scenario would be a large destructive event in the nuclear or chemical industries, or perhaps a major infrastructure failure of some kind. Was this not a disaster?

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The UMBS makes up 70 percent of the total MBS market in the US and was established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to provide stability, liquidity, and resiliency in the US housing market. Leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) , CSS manages $6.4

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council. If no deal is reached, the dispute could threaten games, concerts and other events scheduled to be held at the ballpark.

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What’s a Capital Stack and How Does it Work?

CRA Today

Junior, or subordinated, debt is usually not secured by specific assets and will have less priority for repayment than senior debt claims in the event of default.”. These funds are the last to get repaid in the event of a default. Capital Stacks are critical to successful community development projects, such as affordable housing.