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There is something worse than appeal to authority: appeal to non-authority.

Activity from Amazon's real-time digital advertising auction may be responsible for much of the traffic overwhelming the firewall, according to internal Slack messages seen by Insi…

In the early days, the distinct feature of the web was bidirectionality. Unlike TV or radio, on the web the communication went both ways. The user could finally give their opinion …

I use the empty dark new page extension for chrome/brave. The empty new tab was too bright for my dark environment.

To attenuate my hand pain issues, I am using a mix of a tenkeyless 60% keyboard, AutoHotkey, espanso and dictation. Also, instead of focusing on using key combinations and typing f…

Imagine if this were the case in other field. A "no words" movement for people that want to publish a book but don't want to bother with the writing part.

I translate games and use Android emulators on Windows to test games. I think I could use the Android subsystem, I would give it a try.

AFAIK the chat backup is optional. I've never stored a backup.

I agree. It's a typical error of judgement from people that know things superficially. "All electronic music sounds the same", "all FIFA games are the same", "all soccer matches ar…

My issue with this kind of reasoning is the comparison and reference to the human brain. The potential and reach of AI transcends the brain. We never had to master the "mystery" of…

New AI fallacy: appeal to size

Thank you! This is a very comprehensive tutorial, I'm sending it to my Kindle to study the rest of the day. I only wished the headline was a little bit less generic. There are many…

I'm in South America and see the same message

Is there an objective benchmark to measure the performance of voice assistants? Usually, NLP tasks have ways to measure their performance.

I was wondering if anyone knows something about this, it seems suspect. I do not understand why a mouse desktop applet takes almost 1 GB on the HDD. Is there a chance there is a ke…

Facebook employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors. https://twitter.com/sheeraf/st…

Some Oculus Quest owners can't use their device https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/q18xwy/faceboo...

> Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money.

> But Facebook’s research tells a clear story, and it’s not a happy one. Its younger users are flocking to Snapchat and TikTok, and its older users are posting anti-vaccine memes a…

I'm an editor and proofread texts daily. (In Spanish). The spell check process in Word was always straightforward, without significant delays between each check. But guess what. No…

I watched Joe Rogan's interview with defector Yeonmi Park and, if I understood correctly, she said that this is the case in North Korea only, because the government banned the word…

I remember a discussion on Twitter about abolishing possesive pronouns, because they allegedly express a relation of power and, well, possession. Like, you shouldn't say "my wife" …

They turned something beautiful and poetic into a Black Mirror prompt.