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by avivo 4y ago
I'm curious, why did it flop? Internal coordination issues? NLP tech not being ready yet?
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by avivo 4y ago
This is fascinating; I (well, with some support from my advisor IIRC!) implemented some things like this in latex for my thesis, but it was very limited. It still did help me keep track of all the variables and letters. I'm curious why
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by avivo 4y ago
I would love to see a language model (e.g. GPT-3) prompt for translating emails/slack/responses across this language barrier.
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by avivo 4y ago
I'd be interested in chatting about this at some point. What you are considering re. meaningful aggregation and summarization is connected to my thesis here: https://medium.com/@aviv/when-we-change-the-efficiency-o
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by avivo 5y ago
It's ideal to look at any such individual study within the broader context of the literature. The best way I currently know do do that is searching Connected Papers e.g. https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/e29e41
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by avivo 5y ago
This is sorta true. But it turns out there that there are always targets, even if they aren't explicit (is there a name for this law?). So whether you have a recommendation system or a chronological feed or whatever other way you wan
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by avivo 5y ago
A few issues with this: > The mistake here is seeing a counter-argument as being against a person, rather than as against a particular artifact. What matters is what’s out there. This is not how it works in most of real life. There are p
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by avivo 5y ago
Why does this need to: - Read and change all your data on all websites - Modify data you copy and paste - Manage your downloads Is there a way to use a version that requires less of these permissions? e.g. it seems we can address the first
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by avivo 5y ago
I agree in theory for SEO mills... but it can apparently go a bit overboard! Concrete personal example: - Title shown by Google: "Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure" - Original title: "Towards Platform D
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by avivo 5y ago
I had this problem recently, was hoping there was a reasonable fix but it appears not... (the H1 already contains the title) I don't think about SEO, and just focus on useful writing / societal impact. However, I recently discover
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by avivo 5y ago
I've used "magical decentralization fallacy" to get at something similar[1], but I appreciate how much more concise this is! [1] https://aviv.medium.com/the-magical-decentralization-fallacy... "the mista
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Platform Democracy: Policymaking Beyond Corporate CEOs and Partisan Pressure(platformdemocracy.com)
1 points by avivo 5y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 5y ago
It's crucial to distinguish between "client-side scanning" that reports to authorities and "on-device context"[1] that might use similar client-side/on-device technology to identify a piece of content—but does
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by avivo 5y ago
I appreciate the section on "Synthetic image detection": "While new generator approaches enable new media synthesis capabilities, they may also present a new challenge for AI forensics algorithms for detection and attribution
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by avivo 5y ago
This should have a date in the title. It's from February 11th.
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by avivo 5y ago
Google can do a much better job of making clear what is out of scope. When I first saw this headline I was also surprised and outraged. Looking more closely, this is just about distribution , probably in terms of "content hosting&qu
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by avivo 5y ago
From the OP: "There is just more disagreement and dissension than you would know unless you took the time to reach out to people and speak to them in a more relaxed way. My strong suspicion is that this is true across domains of expert
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by avivo 5y ago
Note that the full story is far more complicated than this headline suggests. Some of the same authors show that "gently nudging users to think about accuracy increases quality of news shared". Paper: https://www.nature
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by avivo 5y ago
If only we had a magical web of knowledge where updates could instantly be seen, and even propagate as we learn more about the world!
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by avivo 6y ago
There is an insight around messaging which I think this is getting at, or at least which I've been particularly excited about: 1. It is useful to be able to navigate conversations by topic (and sub-topics etc.). AKA making the search&#
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by avivo 6y ago
With all due respect George, I now disagree, even if I did agree in 2012 (when we road tripped together to SXSW; celebrating the destruction of SOPA!). I still think SOPA was terrible! But my broader thinking has dramatically evolved as I l
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by avivo 6y ago
Can someone actually explain to me why Mozilla stopped building in an RSS reader into Firefox? If it also can subscribe to substacks, it's like a Pocket that actually gets updates. Heck, they can just build it on Pocket! It seems like
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by avivo 6y ago
Yup. I repeated this enough that I ended up making a term for it. 'The "magical decentralization fallacy" — the mistaken belief that decentralization on its own can address governance problems. What do I mean by governance p
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by avivo 6y ago
I'd love to see an equal amount of the effort put toward initiatives like this, also being put toward mitigating their extremely likely negative societal impacts (and putting in safeguards). Of course, that's not nearly as sexy.
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by avivo 6y ago
It's useful to keep in mind the "magical decentralization fallacy": the mistaken belief that decentralization on its own can address governance problems. (more detail: https://aviv.medium.com/the-magical-decen
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by avivo 6y ago
This mostly matches my experience...but I wonder if it ignores significant costs. In particular, how this impact long term maintenance vs. the desire to build new interesting things? (e.g., see https://themaintainers.org/ ).
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Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale(phys.org)
2 points by avivo 6y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 6y ago
These may help for that: - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fB5pysccOHvxphpTmCG_TGdy... - https://www.microcovid.org/
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by avivo 6y ago
I've written about this a bit — might be helpful perspective: "I’ve had many conversations recently with very well meaning people who believe that if we just decentralize everything, it will fix the internet—and perhaps all of soc
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by avivo 6y ago
I think I disagree about the lack of quality as part of a "dialog system". The examples given in that piece don't show any priming (e.g. the one calling for suicide...). I would definitely not use such a model in a fully auto

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