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What is Random Forest and how it works

towardsmachinelearning.org/random-forest/

Random forest is a machine learning approach that utilizes many individual decision trees.

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NYT Advertising's first clean room deal beat cookies by 61%

ppc.land/nyt-advertisings-first-clean-room-deal-beat-cookies-by-61/

New York Times Advertising ran its first-ever data clean room deal in Q4 2025, using Decentriq to match first-party data and beat cookie benchmarks by 61%.

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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.

werd.io/private-healthcare-makes-industries-less-innovative-its-time-for-change/

1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.

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Programmatic Platforms Champion Transparency, But Not If It Means Giving Activists Access

adexchanger.com/programmatic/programmatic-platforms-champion-transparency-but-not-if-it-means-giving-activists-access/

A DSP refused to give ad industry watchdog Check My Ads a seat on its platform, even after both parties cosigned a master service agreement.

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Musk Leaves Room For a Potential SpaceX-Tesla Merger

gizmodo.com/musk-leaves-room-for-a-potential-spacex-tesla-merger-2000789371

First came xAI-SpaceX. Now brace yourselves for SpaceXAI-Tesla.

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Surprise! NYC Nets 40,000 New Jobs on Wall Street Surge

thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/22/mamdani-wall-street-new-jobs-employment/

A continuing boom on Wall Street keeps the economy expanding — even as tariffs, high inflation and rising rents take a toll.

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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out

wired.com/story/the-child-is-terrified-measles-doctors-speak-out/

Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease.

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Trump had no idea suing the BBC would be so much work

dailykos.com/stories/2026/7/22/800073490/courts/trump-had-no-idea-suing-the-bbc-would-be-so-much-work/

Poor President Donald Trump. He loves filing lawsuits. Why can’t he just sue the BBC for defamation, demand $10 billion and have them write him a check for $10 billion?

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Tesla shares tumble 11% after discounts hit profits

ft.com/content/dc5e629b-562c-41e3-8b89-350af6960adc?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Tesla shares tumbled 11 per cent on Thursday after the carmaker reported a surprise drop in second-quarter profits, as the group cut prices to boost sales and income from regulatory credits sold to rivals dried up.

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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How the Digital Omnibus Could Unravel Europe’s Digital Safeguards

techpolicy.press/how-the-digital-omnibus-could-unravel-europes-digital-safeguards/

The challenge is not so much how to simplify Europe’s digital rules, but how to ensure that the foundations that make those rules enforceable remain intact.

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California Governor Signs Octopus Farming Ban into Law

aldf.org/article/california-governor-signs-octopus-farming-ban-into-law/

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov.

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Police shooting on Madison’s Willy Street leaves 1 dead

madison.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_d540e25e-494a-4cd0-b55e-ee9f535335bf.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

After an officer killed a man police said was armed with a knife, protesters marched to the Capitol and demanded answers.

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Google is responsible for false statements in AI Overviews, German court rules

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

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‘If Not for Video’: Bodycam Exposes New York Cop Planting Drugs on Black Man In Case That Could Have Sent Him to Prison for 10 Years

atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/16/bodycam-exposes-new-york-cop-planting-drugs-on-black-man-in-case-that-could-have-sent-him-to-prison-for-10-years/

Twice in less than a year, New York cops arrested Ivin Harper, a Black fitness instructor, on fabricated drug charges. New Rochelle police officer Jared

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“Nothing Is Ever Over”

atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-07-22-erin-kissane

Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.

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Talk: Mini Metro - A Musical Subway (System)

disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.musical-subway-talk

I spoke with Peter Curry of Dinosaur Polo Club at Konsoll 2016, in Bergen, Norway. We spoke about the audio systems.

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Opencode for Agentic Development with Local LLMs

dev.to/ferdousulhaque/opencode-for-agentic-development-with-local-llms-2h4k

Agentic development is rapidly transforming the way developers design, build, and ship software....

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Local LLM for Coding: Free AI Coding Agent With Ollama + Claude

codesamplez.com/productivity/local-ai-coding-agent

Learn how to set up a local LLM for coding with Ollama, Continue.dev, and VS Code. Covers model selection, hardware planning + IDE integration

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I Built a Local AI Coding Agent Home Lab Setup With OpenCode and Ollama

virtualizationhowto.com/2026/05/i-built-a-local-ai-coding-agent-home-lab-setup-with-opencode-and-ollama/

Learn how I built a self-hosted AI coding agent using OpenCode and Ollama with fully local models running in my home lab.

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Using Local Coding Agents

magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents

Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions

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Using local LLMs for agentic coding

blog.alexewerlof.com/p/local-llms-for-agentic-coding

AI honeymoon pricing is over, but your work is not

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Finding Meaning in a Stagnant Life: A ‘The Amazing Digital Circus’ Playlist

getalternative.com/finding-meaning-in-a-stagnant-life-a-the-amazing-digital-circus-playlist/

Matthew put together a 10-song playlist to accompany the finale of 'The Amazing Digital Circus,' featuring Ratboys, The Hotelier, and more!

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rpg.actor

rpg.actor/dev-guide#systems-overview

Developer guide for building on rpg.actor — AT Protocol lexicons, character stats, sprites, and the master system.

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My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed

projects.propublica.org/blueberries-farmworker-mistreatment/

Max Blau spent a year reporting on abuses of farmworkers. It left him wondering: Is the produce he buys at the grocery store part of the problem?

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States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.

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Staten Island v. New York City With Revisionist History

motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/staten-island-new-york-city-revisionist-history/

“Revisionist History” looks back at Staten Island’s 1990s secession movement and how it foreshadowed America’s politics of resentment.

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Mitch McConnell’s Aides Launch New Health Cover-Up

thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnells-team-falls-silent-as-security-detail-guards-hospital/

It is now two weeks since Scott Jennings claimed he spoke to the 84-year-old.

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Brompton Electric

us.brompton.com/electric-bikes

With a range of 45 miles, shop the range of Brompton Electric Folding Bikes. Arrive in effortless style with a folding e-bike.

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OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection

The company behind ChatGPT is on track to undershoot its five-year revenue projection by upward of 90 percent.