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Digital Tragedy of the Commons

2024-01-182024-01-18

An LLM can generate hundreds of thousands of word generations for an ad, reacting instantly to trends in clicks and searches. A human just can’t compete. And that’s on speed alone, never mind compensation (and therefore profit margin).

Threads does not (yet) publish ActivityPub fully
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Threads does not (yet) publish ActivityPub fully

2024-01-152024-01-17

There’s tons of posts on Threads’ ActivityPub integration. Except it doesn’t work

Community Wall vs Private Billboard: How Section 230 diversified the Internet
OpinionsReflections

Community Wall vs Private Billboard: How Section 230 diversified the Internet

2023-06-132023-06-04

Section 230 enabled the internet as we know it. But what does it mean for freedom of speech? This article explores the implications of Section 230.

What competition does the Apple Vision Pro have?
Analysis

What competition does the Apple Vision Pro have?

2023-06-052023-06-05

The Apple Vision Pro is not what we expected. It’s not really AR, but a headset that continuously renders the real world, similar to the Varjo XR3.

Twitter Diet: Why is the site still up if cuts were so catastrophic?
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Twitter Diet: Why is the site still up if cuts were so catastrophic?

2023-06-052023-06-05

By now we all know that Twitter’s employee base has been absolutely decimated, going from 7500 in 2021 to somewhere…

LLMs are both smarter and dumber than they appear
Opinions

LLMs are both smarter and dumber than they appear

2023-06-012023-05-29

Are Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LLMs) really as intelligent as their hype suggests? This post explores the limitations of LLMs and their potential in semantic search.

Testable Spring beans using Lombok RequiredArgsConstructor
Java

Testable Spring beans using Lombok RequiredArgsConstructor

2023-05-292023-06-05

Learn how to make your Spring code more easily testable by using explicit constructors instead of relying on the @Autowired annotation.

Traffic Jam vs Eclipse
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Traffic Jam vs Eclipse

2017-08-21

The total eclipse passed through the continental US today, with an estimated 7 million people travelling to view it. Now…

Twitcher

Twitcher Entry

2017-07-27

Neil deGrasse Tyson making a deep space video game [Wired]

DNN-assisted colorization of images
Quick Bites

DNN-assisted colorization of images

2017-07-26

There has been previous work on automatic colorization of images, a fairly impressive process that takes a black and white…

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