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by nmacias 1mo ago
I take this story as a clear sign that they are careless & it most likely IS happening at some scale in systems that generate/personalize ad variants, chatbots, suggested interactions, etc. For another example of shipping very inap
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by nmacias 1mo ago
FYI: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-g...
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by nmacias 5mo ago
GOOG-411 was "competing" with a strong company (1-800-FREE411) by serving no ads in a category worth ~$3.5B at the time. It was inexplicable at the time, but they did this to get voice samples, way back when. For reasons like that
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by nmacias 6mo ago
So, Quri (2009, now part of Trax), which was the startup copy of Proctor & Gamble's retail intelligence operations. But now like a sponge for any AI budgets not earmarked for hardware.
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by nmacias 2y ago
most audio and video schemes support streaming, in the case of MP3 we are talking about frame-based compression I guess to restate my curiosity: are things like Animation Pose Compression in Unity or equivalents in other engines remotely as
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by nmacias 2y ago
the shoulder rotation plotted at various frequencies sparked for me: is there an "MP3" of character animation data? The way that we have compression optimized for auditory perception… it feels like we might be missing an open stan
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by nmacias 2y ago
AdderaLLM was right there
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by nmacias 3y ago
Has anyone tried to make a Yahoo! Directory vision of YouTube/web video? This isn’t going to get better on behalf of YT product teams, and Sora et al are going to ratchet up the stakes
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by nmacias 3y ago
Based on the polished rib bone / leatherwork precedent, I am going to presume these were fabric-softening dryer balls.
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by nmacias 3y ago
this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of <your political issue>? And that <many people are saying>? In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify team
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by nmacias 3y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: design, browser-oriented code, GIFs Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ho5lIt8UubFM8HELmqb0I6Ub-Ut... Email: linked from
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by nmacias 4y ago
I get that idealists will be up in arms about user-agent based self-censorship and still feel this way. It’s reversible immediately if it was proven to be harmful.
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by nmacias 4y ago
I think that Apple should insist that webviews used this way identify themselves via JS as monetization containers, with clear definitions for when and why subject to App Store review. Done.
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by nmacias 11y ago
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