Linkfest: April 26, 2018
What I am reading today
How open distribution in insurance can help (Mint)
Down by Algorithms? Siphoning Rents, Exploiting Biases and Shaping Preferences – The Dark Side of Personalized Transactions (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)
Virtual reality speeds up the design process at the expense of touch, which designers and engineers need, says @StanfordEng's Sean Follmer. Using shape-changing robotics, Follmer and team are bringing back the sensation. https://stanford.io/2Juv2eK (Stanford Engineering)
One Young Harvard Grad's Quixotic Quest to Disrupt Private Equity http://spr.ly/6013DbsKS pic.twitter.com/Blo4wpTufN (Devin Haran)
Colin Burrow: The End of the Epithet (London Review of Books)
Bank AGMs are an opportunity to shout about branch closures (Spectator: Martin Vander Weyer)
Animation: Global Population by Region From 1950 to 2100 (Visual Capitalist)
Why Facebook's Troubles Haven't Dented Its Profits (Wired)
How Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash (NYT Technology)
Reflections on a masterclass: Poverty, Social Welfare and Data in Sri Lanka (India at LSE)
How open distribution in insurance can help (Mint)
Down by Algorithms? Siphoning Rents, Exploiting Biases and Shaping Preferences – The Dark Side of Personalized Transactions (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)
Virtual reality speeds up the design process at the expense of touch, which designers and engineers need, says @StanfordEng's Sean Follmer. Using shape-changing robotics, Follmer and team are bringing back the sensation. https://stanford.io/2Juv2eK (Stanford Engineering)
One Young Harvard Grad's Quixotic Quest to Disrupt Private Equity http://spr.ly/6013DbsKS pic.twitter.com/Blo4wpTufN (Devin Haran)
Colin Burrow: The End of the Epithet (London Review of Books)
Bank AGMs are an opportunity to shout about branch closures (Spectator: Martin Vander Weyer)
Animation: Global Population by Region From 1950 to 2100 (Visual Capitalist)
Why Facebook's Troubles Haven't Dented Its Profits (Wired)
How Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash (NYT Technology)
Reflections on a masterclass: Poverty, Social Welfare and Data in Sri Lanka (India at LSE)
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