crowcroft

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by crowcroft 14d ago
They lost in court, and were found to be a Monopoly. The solution is they tell the court, "sorry we will stop abusing our behaviour now", and then it's just all good?
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by crowcroft 1mo ago
I think this is a general misunderstanding of how common law legal systems work. The extent to which these are or are not generalized is decided by judges based on the merits of individual cases, and while a written law might sound broad th
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by crowcroft 2mo ago
Imagine if there was some kind of way to cryptographically 'prove' your GPU is doing some kind of 'work' here and contributing to the network. You could even hand out some kind of digital 'currency' to the peop
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by crowcroft 3mo ago
Tailwind just happens to be a common way to write CSS. If Tailwind didn't exist people would just be writing the same article about {{ insert most common css tool here }} Most people create generic similar looking websites, and most pe
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by crowcroft 3mo ago
I guess to this point the argument for the valuation is just, do you think Elon will beat the (very bad) odds? I wouldn't take that bet, but I can see why some people would.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
The issue is that problem one is real, but not in a way that's beneficial to other advertising products. Search, social and app store ads are over rated in that a lot of brands should probably decrease their investment, but things like
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
I mean, they're not a public company, but there are still laws that exist...
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Two issues with this. - Search ad pricing is inelastic and auction based (supply goes down price goes up). - A jump in traffic to DuckDuckGo does not mean Google is experiencing a decline in search volume. Number of queries per session has
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Important context: In terms of total share of search a 28% lift for DuckDuckGo rounds down to zero. The flip side is that multiple AI Search engines have overtaken and lapped DuckDuckGo many many times over in the past year or so.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Cybertruck and Jaguar have not been sucessful. Luxury car makers should look to handbags for inspiration. If Ferrari wants to expand the market and reach new customers they shouldn't be making something that looks like an upbadged BYD.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Part of what I’m getting at is exactly your point that we used to think about what compiler to use and didn’t always blindly trust them. If you have enough tests at what point does AI rewriting software in a different language become close
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
This is why I require all my software to have bespoke compilers otherwise how can I trust the devs know what their code is actually running!?
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
This is pretty common across social media as well, surveyed sentiment towards it often negative while usage is high. I suspect it's because of the addictive quality.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
This never occurred to traditional search results so highly doubt they’ll start now.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
I think it's a very common misconception among programmers that the law is a sort of natural language 'program' where you can consistently deduce that x input generate y output.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
When some countries tell them 'You need to make sure the product is safe for children', or 'you can't let people under 16 on the platform' Meta stomps their feet, says it's impossible and/or bad for societ
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Who are the experts in the field, and who decides they're experts? "More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette".
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Ok, but what about Meta and X etc.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
I don't think the govt should be able to set rules that limit and control adult's freedoms with computers. I don't think the govt should be able to set rules that limit and control children's freedoms with computers. A c
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
Can't wait for Claude to submit fake tax records for me so that I can commit fraud legally.
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by crowcroft 4mo ago
One turn away from 'Hey Copilot can you play my game for me'.
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
Are you sure?
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
What is 0.1% of a trillion? I think that's quite a large number still.
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
Mergers between public companies are almost entirely negative outcomes for shareholders and positive outcomes for the executive team. Any possible 'synergy' is wiped out by. - Having to pay a premium on the public market. - Organi
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
Your premise is absurd. Search engines do exist, and search engines do allow tool calls. Try find an AI chat provider that doesn't connect web search to the agent.
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
For most people Google Search is the LLM they're using. Another way to think about this is that LLM based search actually grows the entire pie for search and so multiple players can all be growing at the same time. The real losers are
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
Established players aren't selling on all platforms. Any platform doing more than $1bn in ad revenue operated their own ad sales platform. The only players that sell through third parties are sub-scale publishers, and that is a shit bu
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
> product is too new to capture meaningful ad budget I disagree entirely. As someone who works in advertising every single company I've talked to would be queueing up to test ads on ChatGPT if they launched a Google Ads like platfor
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
Three letter agencies are telling OpenAI to partner with a Toronto based ad platform?
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by crowcroft 5mo ago
It all seems a bit overly complicated to me. TikTok pretty much went straight to a self-serve platform and basically had immediate success. I would think if OpenAI did something similar there would be no shortage of advertisers wanting to s

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