J.P. Morgan Chase is shutting down its mobile banking app Finn, meant to lure millennials with zero fees and emojis, just a year after its nationwide release. Monthly fees will be waived indefinitely for Finn customers, and account numbers won’t need to be changed, according to J.P. Morgan spokesman Pablo Rodriguez. Having both mobile apps and brick-and-mortar stores has been a winning combination so far, as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have garnered a disproportionate share of new deposits in recent years.

A team of researchers from Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University and Adobe Research created such an algorithm for editing talking-head videos – videos showing speakers from the shoulders up. Should an actor or performer flub a word or misspeak, the editor can simply edit the transcript and the application will assemble the right word from various words or portions of words spoken elsewhere in the video. Nonetheless, in an era of synthesized fake videos such capabilities raise important ethical concerns, Fried added.

At termination, the algorithm presents the best member or members of the population according to the fitness function. Modifying the behavior and hyperparameters of the reproduction function is one of the most complex and impactful parts of creating a genetic algorithm, as the reproduction function is what determines how the population changes over time. The number of attributes can be 2 or 4, which changes the fitness function that runs, while population size and total iterations can be any positive integer.

A team of researchers from Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University and Adobe Research created such an algorithm for editing talking-head videos – videos showing speakers from the shoulders up. Should an actor or performer flub a word or misspeak, the editor can simply edit the transcript and the application will assemble the right word from various words or portions of words spoken elsewhere in the video. Nonetheless, in an era of synthesized fake videos such capabilities raise important ethical concerns, Fried added.

For example, Termius will help engineers to safely keep information about their servers, shell commands, and terminal logs. Once we released Termius (at that time was called Server Auditor) for iOS and Android, we started to get quite a lot of feedback on the missing features and bugs. Things like terminal logs, recently executed commands and lists of currently runnings systems could be shared among all team members with Termius.

[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal]

A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of believing arguments. You could consider this a form of epistemic learned helplessness, where I know any attempt to evaluate the arguments is just going to be a bad idea so I don’t even try. People used to talk about how terrorists must be very poor and uneducated to fall for militant Islam, and then someone did a study and found that they were disproportionately well-off, college educated people (many were engineers).

SYDNEY, Australia — One journalist is being investigated for reporting that several boats filled with asylum seekers recently tried to reach Australia from Sri Lanka. Democracies from the United States to the Philippines are increasingly targeting journalists to ferret out leaks, silence critics and punish information sharing — with President Trump leading the verbal charge by calling journalists “the enemy of the people.” No other developed democracy holds as tight to its secrets, experts say, and the raids are just the latest example of how far the country’s conservative government will go to scare officials and reporters into submission.

In “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed,” Lisa Duggan, a professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, notes that, although Rand’s brand of sexual liberation didn’t extend to homosexuality, her female heroines refuse to conform to feminine norms, and her male heroes are all in love with one another. Part of American Studies Now, a series of slim volumes published by the University of California Press, Duggan’s book sums up Rand’s life and philosophy in under ninety pages—an affront to a novelist whose magnum opus, “Atlas Shrugged,” came in at more than ten times that length. Rand’s plots legitimize the worst effects of capitalism, creating what Duggan calls “a moral economy of inequality to infuse her softly pornographic romance fiction with the political eros that would captivate a mass readership.”

Sharing web apps and other cloud-based content is over 5x faster and sharper with Demodesk than with traditional desktop sharing tools. Since we detach the entire meeting environment from the local desktop and bring it into the cloud, we are the first platform the has the ability to improve conversations in real-time. Demodesk automatically supports the conversation with dynamic persona-specific sales playbooks, keyword-triggered cheat sheets, content suggestions, and conversational metrics.

That $129.99 package, available for pre-order on the Google Store right now, will include:

After the first three months, Stadia Pro users will have to pay $9.99 a month to maintain their membership. Alongside its pricing announcement, Google announced a lineup of 21 publishers and 31 games that will be available on Stadia in the “launch window” (see sidebar). Stadia users will also be able to stream games through a Chromecast Ultra connected to a TV if they use Google’s proprietary Stadia controller.