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Red Teaming Isn't Enough(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by gajeam 2y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 3y ago
Un-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/3vDun
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ChatGPT is nothing new. Machines have helped us write for centuries(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by gajeam 3y ago|1 comments
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Sunsetting 'Shadowbanning'(papers.ssrn.com)
4 points by gajeam 3y ago|3 comments
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The Dire Defect of ‘Multilingual’ AI Content Moderation(wired.com)
2 points by gajeam 3y ago|0 comments
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A plan to fix the internet: Put the government in charge(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by gajeam 4y ago|1 comments
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An AI loop that ensnares consumers and critics alike(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by gajeam 5y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 5y ago
Hello, I wrote this! Happy to see it circulating HN again. You can find more of my writing on competition here in the Boston Globe — https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/11/opinion/be-wary-when-... ) in th
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Google, Privacy, and FLoC: Lamb or Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?(techpolicy.press)
1 points by gajeam 5y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 5y ago
It's important to note that this new ad slot "will allow advertisers to promote their apps across the whole network, rather than in response to specific searches." This is exactly Facebook's game, and the underlying tech
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The day of reckoning for smartphone contact tracing is here(fastcompany.com)
1 points by gajeam 6y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 6y ago
Coincidentally, iOS 13 updated iBeacon in a way that also made it a lot less useful to developers (although there was a clear privacy benefit for users.)
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Armed and Dangerous: Does Technology Make for Better Policing?(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by gajeam 6y ago|0 comments
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Milk protein fermentation company Perfect Day raises $140m(fastcompany.com)
2 points by gajeam 7y ago|0 comments
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Data Portability and Platform Competition(law.nyu.edu)
1 points by gajeam 7y ago|0 comments
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The Crypto Family Farm(logicmag.io)
1 points by gajeam 7y ago|0 comments
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Does technology make for better policing?(lareviewofbooks.org)
1 points by gajeam 7y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 7y ago
I was doing academic research on this exact topic and Chris' is the only book that I found that breaks down the techniques one at a time this way. This book is nothing short of brilliant.
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by gajeam 7y ago
Right now I code two days a week and do academic/journalistic writing the other three days a week. The work styles are totally different. With programming, I work at nearly full capacity until I'm almost done with the task, and th
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by gajeam 8y ago
Lot of people talking about third-party application development in this thread. It's also worth considering the opposite side of that, data portability. GDPR already requires companies allow users to easily export all their data [1], a
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Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook(lareviewofbooks.org)
8 points by gajeam 8y ago|1 comments
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by gajeam 8y ago
This view of "traditional monopolies" isn't actually that traditional. From the end of the Gilded Age to through the LBJ administration, antitrust law was focused on reducing market concentration, barriers of entry, and anti-
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by gajeam 8y ago
"Microsoft spent more than a decade, investing tens of billions of dollars and absorbing an astonishing $12.4 billion in cumulative losses, to establish Bing as a credible competitor. It is cheaper and easier to build a manned space pr
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by gajeam 8y ago
Why is this the case? Don't the data portability rules make it easier for Europeans to be able to switch to a Facebook alternative?
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by gajeam 8y ago
In this piece, Alexis Madrigal gives one of the all time most straightforward descriptions of how neural nets work. Kudos.
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The Algorithms That Are Changing the Art World(slate.com)
4 points by gajeam 9y ago|0 comments
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by gajeam 9y ago
I'm not sure whether this is the right site for the job, but it's super important that this kind of resource exists for Ethereum. "Trustlessness" can only go so far since not everyone has the technical knowhow to detect
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by gajeam 9y ago
The fact that this paper uses a very vanilla LaTeX format is almost taunting to academia. At least many other "whitepapers" (e.g. Gnosis) format theirs more like a corporate brochure.
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by gajeam 9y ago
> There's really no such thing as market "saturation" when you can grow the market and eat old participants. The car companies aren't making the same mistake that Microsoft and other old tech companies made with sma
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by gajeam 9y ago
I guess you never know with Apple but it just seems like a really crowded space for them to come into, especially if they insist on controlling the whole ecosystem like they do with their other products. First of all, it's a high price

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