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by dougb5 7y ago
The post was written to criticize "paid placement" search engines like Goto.com/Overture (see https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2002/03/04/how-overture-go... for details). I believe Google has
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Open Syllabus 2.0(blog.opensyllabus.org)
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> On July 2, 2018, GlacierMD powered the world’s largest depression meta-analysis, using data from 846 trials, beating Cipriani’s previous record of 522. Was this analysis written up somewhere? The author links to Cipriani's study
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That's a staggering number, but isn't the article including the whole country in this count of 256 deaths? It sounds like "only" 12 of them were in Bangkok: > Over the Dec 27-31 period, Bangkok had the highest numbe
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Only You Can Prevent Dystopia(nytimes.com)
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Alternative Institutions(mason.gmu.edu)
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How a Gig Worker Revolt Begins(nytimes.com)
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I have an imaginary city that I started sketching out as a kid. In my imagination it is situated in a real-world place, so a few years ago I transferred my sketch into Google My Maps and I tweak it from time to time, like a garden. Thankf
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I wrote up a "technical continuity plan" that describes how to keep my web sites and APIs in maintenance mode in the event of my untimely demise. It has a list of bare-minimum things to do in the following week, month, and year,
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Whenever public sector salaries are discussed in the news, the outliers are highlighted, never the median or the mean, giving readers a warped sense of what cops and firefighters make. Sure, some workers put in a lot of overtime hours and
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You're right that the second sentence is simpler, but both of the sentences are in the active voice. (The difference between the two is in verb tense : the first sentence is in "present perfect" tense and the second sentenc
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By comparison, the current pizzahut.com home page makes 92 network requests, including 34 potential trackers according to Privacy Badger.
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_Concrete Mathematics_ by Knuth et al is a dense but joyful overview of discrete math for CS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112243.Concrete_Mathemat...
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Researchers find bug in Python script may have affected hundreds of studies(arstechnica.com)
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What do you think about getting rid of the "laugh" reaction? I feel like that could make Facebook less toxic in one stroke, since it is so often used to troll and deride, as you observe. There are non-troll uses of the laugh rea
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Radio Voices: listen to recent US radio clips on any topic(radio.cortico.ai)
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I made a search history inspector tool -- https://prototypes.cortico.ai/search-history/ -- that processes Google Takeout files and ranks and summarizes the queries to assist me in this kinds of introspection. It'
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Hey, Google: Let me talk to my departed father(boston.com)
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This is very interesting -- a kind of topological sort of the dictionary. It seems like a very natural thing to want to do with subject-specific glossaries as well. Often when I approach a new topic or hobby I want a glossary of all the jar
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"It’s hard not to believe that gated superblock developments, which nauseatingly often include daycare centers, cram schools and other amenities for residents’ children within the superblock gates." I feel like I'm missing so
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by dougb5 8y ago
This is right on. To add some color from my memory as a Lycos employee, it felt that many of the early search engines dropped by the ball in their rush become "portals". There was this mass delusion that it was important to hol
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It looks like Airbnb has a requirement that hosts "disclose all surveillance devices in their listings": https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnb-s-ru... How could they possibly sa
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What restaurants did Google Maps show you? Unless you searched for a specific restaurant, you likely saw only those restaurants that paid for contextual advertising on that search. (At the very least, you saw the paid listing first, and
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The acquisition of YouTube is one that comes to mind. While it wasn't universally panned, there were a lot of engineers (myself included) who felt it was wildly excessive.
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Visualizing Toxicity in Twitter Conversations(medium.com)
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I couldn't find the GPS coordinates for Nixtun-Ch’ich’ listed anywhere, so I went hunting for it around Lake Petén Itzá and found it here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lago+Peten+Itza/@16.953099...
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The tool I made works with local data -- it analyzes your Google search history from a file on your disk. You can filter it by specifying a topic, which is then matched semantically against the search queries in your history using the word
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This is great and echoes a recent fascination for me. One application of compact word embeddings is that if they're small enough you can ship a whole model to the user in a web app so that semantic computations can be done entirely cl
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Beautifully Animate Points with WebGL and Regl(peterbeshai.com)
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Google Search History Inspector/Intersector(prototypes.cortico.ai)
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