cosheaf

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by cosheaf 5y ago
Maybe I'll make a support page and then you'll read it and believe it.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
There is no royal road to changing one's mental behaviors and habits. It's a metacognitive skill and can be developed like any other skill but you'll have to put in the work to develop it. Start by developing an exercise rout
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Mathematics of Collective Intelligence(ipam.ucla.edu)
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Correct and if you deviate from the standards then you will be medicated until you are subdued and willing to work for the machines destroying the habitability of the planet.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Maybe you should have lined up projects before buying them.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Chocolate is better and cheaper than coffee, and might even be better for overall health in the long run than coffee. Whenever I'm at Trader Joe's I make sure to buy whatever is on sale and is as close to 100% dark chocolate as po
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by cosheaf 5y ago
You should sit down and think about how Google makes money instead of reading whatever is on their support page.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Because that's the correct intuition. The contemporary world is not designed for sane people. All the systems around us are designed to alienate people from each other with artificial intermediators like money, status, fame, and just g
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by cosheaf 5y ago
That's reasonable. Substitute "corruption" wherever I used "gaming" when referring to maximizing profits at the expense of serving useful search results.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
This is actually what google does. They find the 50 sites for your query and then do a multi-armed bandit test to see which one gets the most clicks but with a bias towards sites that serve ads from the Google ad network. A search engine wi
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Thanks but it's not really my analysis. I learned it from an art project: https://googlewilleatitself.com/ .
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by cosheaf 5y ago
I'm not interested in a pedantic argument. If you didn't understand what I meant then you should have asked for clarification. A search engine designed to surface useful information is not gameable if it is not in the business of
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by cosheaf 5y ago
We're in agreement. I don't think quarterly earnings are the right way to design and build products. Maximizing profits is not correlated with value and is often inversely proportional to it. Google was so successful that they cha
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Yes, it's very similar with the added caveat that Google has an interest in serving results that have ads from their own network. This is why Google's metrics can be hacked. Anything that is barely above being classified as spam b
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Which is why I said it's an ouroboros eating its own tail. The scale it operates at and given that it's also an ad network guarantees that whatever results it finds will favor its own ad network. It doesn't even have to be in
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by cosheaf 5y ago
It's essentially a machine for printing money and people don't really understand what they're giving up in exchange for "free" search results. Google is beholden to market forces, it's no longer in the business
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by cosheaf 5y ago
So why do you suppose Google doesn't surface the domains and results you presented? For example, I searched for "game reviews" and gameboomers was nowhere to be found.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Great, now compare this to all the content generated on content farms for selling ads and gaming search engine rankings.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Show me a site made by people with manually instead of algorithmically curated links and content.
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Federation is the only reasonable solution at this time but the technical overhead of federated search is high enough that most people won't use it so it won't benefit from network effects like Google did in the beginning. There m
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by cosheaf 5y ago
They did that right when they chose the advertising model. It was never going to work in the long run and the founders knew it. They just thought they could build an AI system before that happened and it turned out they were wrong. Useful A
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by cosheaf 5y ago
It's already dead. Google mined all the links that were curated by the initial internet communities for all it was worth and turned them into profits for Google's earliest employees and shareholders. Now that no one is curating us
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Yes, the economy is what everyone should be worried about. Not the potential devastation and lives lost but the economy.
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Second years are my most active [drug] customers(theboar.org)
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by cosheaf 5y ago
During the pandemic Joe Biden and his friends sent me a check by direct deposit into my chase checking account. We already have a digital dollar. If you have a checking account at one of the main banks then you're already hooked up to
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by cosheaf 5y ago
If you write software then you need extended periods of focus. This is not possible in an open office. Open offices were designed to save money on building costs and then sold to office workers as better ways to collaborate (which turned ou
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Climate Change: Annual greenhouse gas index(climate.gov)
1 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
Here you go: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/... .
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Caught Up in Complexity (2021)(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
2 points by cosheaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by cosheaf 5y ago
The science is not saying anything like that. I am the one saying things will be worse because the models have consistently underestimated second order greenhouse effects like ocean acidification and the collapse of the transatlantic curr

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