dougb5

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by dougb5 11mo ago
As dumb as People magazine is/was, it is not algorithmically optimized to hook its readers through constant notifications and rewards. I'd say social media has the edge in terms of its ability to cause sleep deprivation, cognitive
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OpenAI Seeks Government Backing to Boost AI Investments(barrons.com)
7 points by dougb5 11mo ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 11mo ago
Yeah I can make it available! Contact me at the email in my profile and I can explain what I have.
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by dougb5 11mo ago
Great project! It's visually dazzling and it really drives home the sheer size of the universe(s) of named colors. I've long been interested in the names of colors and their associations. If I may plug my own site a bit, check
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by dougb5 1y ago
I also recommend the Scam Factory podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cfjCS28vx1MVoukNjpINt
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by dougb5 1y ago
And make restaurant reservations! We also make restaurant reservations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806755
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Superintelligence Isn't Enough(persuasion.community)
2 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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Effort Fortifies(onelook.com)
1 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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Holding It Together(onelook.com)
2 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 1y ago
I'm confused here. How should this additional context change our understanding of the intended meaning of "the open web is already in rapid decline"?
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by dougb5 1y ago
https://archive.is/twynO
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A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom(theatlantic.com)
223 points by dougb5 1y ago|352 comments
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Stop talking to technology executives like they have anything to say(stilldrinking.org)
100 points by dougb5 1y ago|9 comments
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by dougb5 1y ago
Agreed. Techno-solutionists now use the verb "solve" in every imaginable context -- often where there's not a coherent question, let alone a workable answer ("AI will solve physics!"). It's comfortable to see
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First-Name Basis(mailchi.mp)
2 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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Microdefinitions(mailchi.mp)
2 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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Microdefinitions(mailchi.mp)
1 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 1y ago
> Cloudflare can detect and block verified AI bots that comply with robots.txt and respect crawl rates, and do not hide their behavior from your website It's the bots that do hide their behavior -- via residential proxy services -
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by dougb5 1y ago
I learned of this when users of my dictionary search site (OneLook) started complaining. I'd been in contact with folks from dictionary.com in their early days, and I've watched its rise and fall with curiosity. If whoever owns
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by dougb5 1y ago
This makes me think about the credibility of single-author vs. multi-author papers in different disciplines. In computer science, a paper is seen as suspicious if there's just one author (at least nowadays). But in economics it seems
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by dougb5 1y ago
My cynical answer: I think they reframe their history to see it as a series of ever-larger successes -- with some setbacks maybe. They avoid introspection that might lead to the unpleasant conclusion that they have actually gone off the r
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Easter Egg Acrostics(mailchi.mp)
2 points by dougb5 1y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 1y ago
Further, the people who have purchased this situation for us, and the wealthy tech VCs who are staying silent now, are all people this community once admired.
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U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported(nytimes.com)
274 points by dougb5 1y ago|254 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Even if the VC-backed companies jacked up their prices, the models that I can run on my own laptop for "free" now are magical compared to the state of the art from 2 years ago. Ubiquity may come from everyone running these on the
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by dougb5 2y ago
What exactly should be rate-limited, though? See the discussion here -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413 -- the traffic at issue in that case (and in one that I'm dealing with myself) is from a large nu
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by dougb5 2y ago
This matches exactly with what I'm seeing on my own sites too and it's from all over the world, not just China. (I described my bot woes a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208623 . The &quo
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by dougb5 2y ago
https://archive.is/Go2fS#selection-1677.0-1677.30
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Have humans passed peak brain power?(ft.com)
2 points by dougb5 2y ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Sutro Tower's height is boosted by the fact that it sits on Mt. Sutro. It reaches 1,811 feet above sea level, just higher than the tallest building in the US (One World Trade Center in NYC, at 1776 feet). I like to mention this fun fa

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