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> The article points out that nobody made a movie about this guy. What are you talking about? The article doesn't say no one made a movie about him. There are at least three Chines…

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Hot damn, fed it part of an unpublished blog post I wrote, and it got me immediately. I'm not famous or anything. I've written some academic papers and had a couple blog posts tren…

It's not at all comparable. ADS-B is opt-in: you place an ADS-B out transmitter in your plane and turn it on to transmit your position [1]. You're perfectly free to turn your ADS-B…

People do these same sock puppet studies on Twitter/YouTube/etc. and find biases there as well. There's a lot of literature out there. Here's a recent study on YouTube from the sam…

I think this is a valid point and a really interesting question. If that's the standard, we need to regulate all recommendation algorithms. (i.e. put limits on Twitter, Instagram, …

I think the key metric missing here is how long the user watches each video. Likes and replies are probably helpful too, but when I've used short-form video content apps like TikTo…

Perhaps I should have been more clear. It's TikTok, so of course the only way to collect recommendations is to watch videos. Some studies watch the whole video, some just watch par…

It's another sock puppet study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17831 Very similar methodology to an earlier study the government cited in their case against TikTok: https://networkcont…

Yeah, I'd say this is exactly what's going on at big tech companies. Add to that the need for an interview process that is very standardized for (1) scalability in a large company …

There's also the problem of content which doesn't have subtitles to begin with---YouTube's automatic subtitle generation is great, but could be improved and expanded to languages o…

Yes! My perennial problem is that most Chinese TV content has excellent subtitles, but they're burned in to the videos. So if I want to watch a Chinese show with a friend who doesn…

Becoming more and more surprised by intentionally misleading headlines these days.... Shocker---you might be required to be vaccinated in order to live in a facility for ultra-sick…

Pretty interesting! I tried this both English -> French and French -> English. English -> French seemed to work best, with the AI output have a very similar timbre to my real voice…

Unfortunately probably none, unless you live pretty far north. We're pretty close to the speed of light limit* when it comes to latency between the US and Asia, which makes sense a…

Considering all the crazy shit that goes down with CSGO skins, which have a much more controlled market than NFTs, I find this pretty unsurprising. For anyone unfamiliar with the C…

Ooh, great to hear!

I'm extremely excited about this project. If the product reviews end up as positive as the pre-production reviews, my next laptop is definitely going to be a Framework Laptop.

There was an excellent article in Harpers about this a few months ago: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04/lost-in-thought-psycholo... I had no idea, but schizophrenic breaks and o…

+1 to the Toshiba CB-35 Chromebook. It is an excellent laptop fr running Linux, although a bit outdated at this point. If I hadn't shattered mine's screen in a bike crash, I probab…

Yeah, this. I've used Ethernet bridge on old Netgear 802.11n routers, and it's quite fast.

1) It runs Linux, so you're limited to 0 A.D. 2) No, it has the extremely expensive server GPUs, so their drivers should be normal.