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Yelp is a social network that also happens to have business reviews. So I don't mean a social network, I mean a site specifically focused on reviewing books and other consumer prod…

Correct, how do we even know this guy is an actual doctor? Maybe he's some insane person that enjoys collecting internet points.

It's possible to send anonymous tips to reporters. It's not hard. All he's doing with this story is farming fake internet points on Reddit. Getting something off his chest is not c…

The real question is why have we engineered our environment so unhealthy choices are so easy to make. There are systemic issues here that go beyond individual choices. Social media…

Namebase.io.

> We live in a cultural climate that loves machines and where the promise of artificial general intelligence assumes, at least for some, religious proportions. The thought that we …

Carmack made a few veiled statements about lack of technical maturity for making immersive 3D environments with low interaction latency.

Reviews are meaningless, they have been for a long time now. The right way to do reviews is off site because that is the only way to guarantee impartiality. One of my reviews was r…

Ya, the workaround is not relying on a centralized resource.

Read a book.

Their pivot to Meta indicates that Zuckerberg knows Facebook is dead. The continued survival of the company now depends on whether they can successfully pivot to something else oth…

There aren't many (useful) posts when I search for "no such thing as artificial intelligence". The first result is an aggregation site that points to this article: https://aitopics…

I wasn't aware that booleans could be instantiated with a constructor. What would be a reason for using the constructor instead of the literals "true" and "false"?

Very cool.

Periodic reminder about Gell-Mann amnesia. AI systems continue to give the illusion of intelligence while simply performing basic linear algebra. It's fine to call matrix multiplic…