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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Maybe in some cases, but that requires time and expertise. It may not be worth it in many cases.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
That’s one of the main benefits, but if the machine can make sense of the content, it can still present it however is clearest for the user.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Valid point. Ironically the main benefit of semantic markup is now an abstraction to help the human developers effect styling and control.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
It’s possible the post-acquisition operation did something that made the search engine gods mad.
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
I've been wondering how freemium services like Thread Reader still operate now that Twitter is charging prohibitive prices for API access and taking measures to prevent scraping. The cheapest API plan with read access is $100/mont
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Eye masks are also a valuable travel hack. Hotels tend to have LED light coming from different places - smoke alarms, clocks, key card slots etc - and it's always a gamble how much sunlight gets through the windows. It's much easi
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Yea, there’s a strong resistance because somehow the community thinks algorithms are only there for the benefit of investors and could actually be of benefit to users who don’t want to micromanage who they’re following. As for search, it’s
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
Federation is still planned, but by the time it happens, there will be (a) a critical mass of users on the original server, including high-profile accounts (b) more consideration of UX under a federated model. It may be that the official ap
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by mmahemoff 3y ago
The same way a mobile developer might say App Store and Google Play are bad, but have to distribute through them. Booking and Expedia dominate the space, not just their own brands but Agoda, Kayak, Priceline, Hotels dot com, Travelocity, ma
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Every month or two, I have a need to login to Discord for something like MJ. Discord's whole login sequence is more painful than any other website ever created. It has multiple borderline-crazy CAPTCHA challenges and still makes you ve
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
I bought a Sony 2 years ago (2019 model apparently and not a Bravia). It’s been great as a dumb telly. I have Chromecast 4K plugged in, use its remote for everything (sometimes control it from Google speakers and phone apps too). The offici
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Phones are frequently snatched out of people's hands in London. They are sold in countries that don't blacklist them, mainly in Africa.
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
I love my home automation setup, but it was slap in the face to get started and realise how brittle and poorly maintained this technology is, versus the hype that surrounds it. It makes for great demos in keynotes, followed by adoring media
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
What makes you say investors freaking out? Maybe they should be, but Alphabet stock is up 18% in the past month and up 7% in past 6 months, the period when GPT began to be hyped.
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
My media habits are configured to mostly avoid this junk, but I think I also have developed a "junk blindness" similar to the "ad blindness" filters that cause people to not even look properly at blatant ads. If you vis
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
(I'm referring to ChatGPT's interface specifically, of course. Third party clients could use GPT4 to build a GUI chessboard.)
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Strangely, GPT4 refuses to draw a chessboard while earlier versions were up for it. I do hope the chat interface improves soon. It seems like low hanging fruit compared to everything else that's been accomplished ... it will be like th
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
However, calling it a “collapse” is taking it to the other extreme. We’re not going back to the cave age.
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
It made me think of Winamp.
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
I agree it's facile to argue about dictionary definitions. There's several distinct topics people are thinking about when they talk about AI sentience and it's more productive to address them directly. Namely: (a) practical i
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Interesting way to look at it, but I think you could say the same thing about the internet, i.e., people still interacted with it using a PC. So I could still see AI having a similar impact without changing the physical form factor. That sa
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
You’re both right. It’s true the practical aspects many it hard to change laws, but I still appreciate OP’s starting from first principles. It’s easy to get caught up in debates over how to interpret current laws and conflate what’s legal w
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
To compete, Google has to disrupt its own product, which happens to be one of the most lucrative flywheels in history. It has everything to lose while MS has everything to gain by augmenting Bing and indeed its other products. That’s what m
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Not everyone is using Apple Music (or its competition). Even for those who are using a music platform, this project still has its unique algorithm that’s likely to surface distinct results. Partly because the developer can do their own inno
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Sure, a toggle is one option. The main point is to introduce popularity as a factor and ultimately the best UI and defaults are best decided through A-B testing. I'd also add that it's usually a good idea to incorporate this setti
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Exciting to see AI used this way. My main feedback is I'd look at incorporating other factors to rank results, not purely how similar it sounds. Audiophiles might prefer a pure similarity ranking, but that could be offered as a non-d
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
BTW there’s a formatting issue with your last example. 2161000 should be 2 * 16 * 1000
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
This has been a recurring pattern with other forms of media, e.g. vinyl records, typewriters, Atari cartridges. An uptick many years after the technology became obsolete, which generates intriguing headlines. More recently, it's been h
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
Tampermonkey can change what's on the web page, but extensions can do much more than that, e.g. add toolbar menus and items to the context menu, add keyboard shortcuts, manage bookmarks, and so on. (See the API guide for an overview [1
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by mmahemoff 4y ago
This is the next frontier for AI art as it will let you build a series, graphic novel, or even video with consistent objects. There’s techniques like textual inversion that let you associate a label with an object, but they rely on having

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