amazon behind the scenes Amazon.com The Truth Behind the Click amazon shopping secrets

Spy camera shows what it's like to work in Amazon's warehouse as a picker. A grueling, tedious race against the clock, constantly dogged by performance measures, under a Damocle's sword of being fired if you're late or unwell.

http://youtu.be/F4aRz7NqTOo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs

Meet the Robots Filling Your Cyber Monday Amazon Orders

Cool: Amazon uses robots to bring inventory to the worker, so there's smaller warehouses, less walking, faster, cheaper

http://youtu.be/ADgSTMla3EU

http://youtu.be/gvQKGev56qU

Advanced robot

A dexterous well-balanced robot

http://youtu.be/diaZFIUBMBQ

Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn

Interesting 15-minute lecture on computers that can learn. Computers that can read, see, write, and learn, and the unprecedented trajectory we're on with them.


http://youtu.be/t4kyRyKyOpo

Interesting photographers

Imaginative double exposures

http://instagram.com/michael.e.guidry/

Jumping New Yorkers

http://www.herculesnewyork.com/editorials1/

Paraskevidekatriaphobia definition

Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) plays a role in Paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th)

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/mobileart.asp?articlekey=21976

Time-lapse two years of a landslide

Time-lapse taken over two years: May 2013 - January 2015

http://youtu.be/5-nyAz484WA

Amazing dance group, gotta watch.

Very cool. I've seen dance troupes before, but never this many, this fast, this tight.

http://youtu.be/sy4Ogh4TEuI

Resort in the Philippines

http://m.puertodelsol.com.ph/photo
http://www.puertodelsol.com.ph/photo

Where Mark's extended family went for Christmas. Great buffets, beautiful pool.

The aging anesthesiologist

Interesting discussion of a thorny issue. 

"A suggested schedule might include no further on-call duties for those aged 60 yr and older, no further high-acuity cases for those aged 65 yr and older, and retirement from operating room (OR) clinical practice (with possible continuation of non-OR clinical or other non-clinical activities, if desired) at age 70 yr." ..."Physicians have a strong cognitive reserve, resulting from higher education and advanced medical training, that may mask signs of early cognitive impairment."... "The older physician's wisdom and experience often compensate for any cognitive impairment, and this compensatory method fails only in advanced stages of cognitive impairment."

"The Micro-cog(R) test in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale test has been used to test cognitive decline of reactivity, attention, numeric recall, visuospatial facility, verbal memory, reasoning, and mental calculation, although the correlation with clinical ability is not established."

[Regarding the 360-degree assessment by peers:]"other healthcare professionals may have limited insight into expertise in anesthesiology"

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/757/art%253A10.1007%252Fs12630-014-0194-x.pdf?auth66=1422902729_c9077c9def7d7fdec19968de36df6f95&ext=.pdf