OmarShehata

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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Direct link to the WaPo page: https://thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/help_investiga... Post from 2 days ago about users collecting their own Twitter user data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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Washington Post collecting TikTok user data from its followers for public good(omarshehata.substack.com)
4 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
This is a good article that answers this question: https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473 > This is problematic, clearly. A company needs to be able to treat its employees as interchangeable and expendable, b
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Here is the washington post doing this with TikTok users to reverse engineer the algorithm!! https://thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/help_investiga... they've got data from 800 users so far, with watch data
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Alternatively, build a private invite only dataset of specific communities. Scale horizontally instead of having one single central dataset! That's still a huge win for user ownership. It doesn't have to be one company controlling
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
A lot of users/communities are stuck because of network effects & the long history of posts (they still reference them, like living wikis) These pipeline tools can help people migrate if they want without losing that history &
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
feedback is very much needed
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Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API(omarshehata.substack.com)
125 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|101 comments
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Playing a game of telephone with DALL-E(omarshehata.me)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
is it? If I was forced to ask this question as an interviewer, and the candidate said, "actually, you're wrong, here's why" that's a very good signal. Do most people not do this? (typically there's discussion w
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
Is the data collected by this open? Would absolutely love to take a peek/contribute to analyzing it (I'm trying to do similar experiments like this myself and I think it would be great if the data is published and we can like, rep
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Anatomy of an Internet Argument(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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What *is* ChatGPT if it's not a chatbot?(omarshehata.substack.com)
4 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
This is a narrative about our world, written from the perspective of a future historian. Everything falls into one of 3 categories: predictions (what author thinks will happen) history (has already happened) retro-predictions (wrote as
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Best ad I've ever seen (half fiction / half true)(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
yes if the standard practice on the codebase is to include tests, the maintainers will ask for tests if the author doesn't want to do it, the PR will likely remain abandoned unless an external contributor comes along to finish it, or a
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A Chrome browser extension that "steals" buttons from the websites you visit(github.com)
4 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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Shapeshifting Media and Collaboration(origamiparty.substack.com)
1 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> Most learners, the world over, are not self-motivated this seems like a bizarre conclusion. In my experience, most people, the world over, are in fact self motivated. You won't see that if you have a very narrow definition of what
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Who Are We Now?(whoarewenow.net)
9 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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Fighting Twitter's censorship of Substack (with a proxy)(omarshehata.substack.com)
7 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> Citation heavily needed I'm not going to give you any proof of this, because I know you've seen it, but I think I just wasn't very clear on what I meant here. I'm talking about PRs that fix a typo in the docs, or tw
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
"the current practice may not be perfect but has obviously stood the test of time" has it stood the test of time? or is just an arbitrary choice that no one has bothered to change? I'm sorry, it just seems like we're loo
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
small issues are easy to solve! I think it isn't as sexy/interesting as what I thought the article was going to be about (about a different way of talking about our history, in eras maybe vs centuries or something). this strikes m
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
I love this! I'd for this to be a more typical experience in math class (I bought Paul Lockhart's "measurements" but gave up because I felt like I needed a sandbox to play with and little hints. Like, I don't want t
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
this implies that humans have an intuitive sense of the shape of the waveform, which I think would be surprising!! And also empirically testable (not saying you're wrong, but it's not necessarily obvious to me as true. The sound i
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
fun experiment: let's try to have the most charitable interpretation of this comment ^ My best is: they are saying it is worth taking a step back and making a prioritized list of our values. If we do this, we may place "being kind
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> they understand, from centuries of experience, that provoking strong emotional responses is one of the most reliable ways to get people to change their behavior this is easily defeated by teaching everyone a sprinkle of meditation (it
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Developing your own framework for understanding reality(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments
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Decisive Team (open software for fast decision making)(decisive.team)
2 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|0 comments

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