esmevane, sorry

Even seen people doing the "ah but I have you (smug)" support of this fella as though a median analysis of a set is proper because it offsets extreme values of the set. No, those are outliers. The median changes when you remove outliers, doesn't it?

I don’t think Gruber would have pressed publish on his Guaranteed To Be Relevant To All Social Networks post if he wasn’t sure it’d drive tons of traffic to his blog where he Writes About Brands No One is Interested In Reading About Presently.

Folks have long thought that executing on an idea was about as much work as perceiving it. There’s this notion that using robots changes it so it is. But really, what’s going on is that now you have to perceive the idea over and over again for the same amount of time.

Just grabbing one idea and holding it and forcing a robot to articulate it not just in rough form but exact precision, it’s still iterative, it’s still labor, and it’s genuinely exhausting to do as well.

This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous!

So, again: worrying charts like the linked graphics are not people gloating and being wrong about AI, or missing the point. They're an eyeball on vulture capitalists in the act, harvesting the middle / lower class yet again. It's not reckless to them, it's reckless (and predatory!) to us.

This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous!

A bubble popping isn't a threat to the majority of these orgs because they don't plan to be the ones falling. They're planning to be poised to scoop up the spoils of whoever DOES fail, though. And the resulting bank run / harvest / bailout will be a huge, zero-consequence windfall for those left

This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous!

I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.

The old Spotify algorithm kicked ass but it was tough to optimize and involved a lot of human parts. Here's my assertion: any recommendation system which a human will get value out of, long-term, must be curated by humans.

I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.

Or in other words, recommenders pick safe recs. That's also why Spotify sucks so hard these days - at one point there was a team of data nerds who tagged and linked songs with stuff only humans would. They're all gone, replaced by automation.

I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.

I'm not criticizing the films or vanilla (it's my favorite flavor), it's not derogatory. Vanilla's an incredibly exotic thing. Extracting it is a culinary milestone. BUT - it's very safe. You can put it in most sweet things and it works. So, it's easy to recommend.

I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.

Basically, Rotten Tom's Tomatometer stopped "working" for me at one point. I watched like 3+ 100% movies in a row over a year and they were all boring as hell, for me. Sure enough though, the flicks were highly regarded. So, what was going on?