Funny, slightly off topic, but still relevant fact: When I google my name, the first page is about a sex offender living in Texas.
Google killed me
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#52:) hahaha every one makes mistakes .. even google
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#53I've been curious to learn how these knowledge boxes work, ever since I saw my dog Lucy show up as the star photo in a search for Rat Terrier:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rat+terrier
In fact, on a mobile device she's the only photo. Yes!
Are these generated algorithmically? Some amount of manual curation? Or what?
Of course it is humbling to discover that my dog is much more famous than I am...
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#54Great article, really well written! This is what happens when the world is ruled by a robot I take it OP hasn't had the delightful pleasure of dealing with old-fashioned human bureaucracy. My uncle tells some great stories about his time in East Berlin, before the Wall fell. A great example is the post office that did some renovations, and so delivered the old copper and other materials for reutilization. From then o…
I can't seem to find a good canonical reference at the moment, but there's some interesting writing in organizational theory about the extent to which some of those kinds of bureaucracies are themselves basically mechanical systems, controlled by code that just happens to be manually executed by human operators. In general, code executed by computers tends to be executed more "rigidly", but in some systems humans can…
Do you have a reading list you could share?
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#55Great article, really well written! This is what happens when the world is ruled by a robot I take it OP hasn't had the delightful pleasure of dealing with old-fashioned human bureaucracy. My uncle tells some great stories about his time in East Berlin, before the Wall fell. A great example is the post office that did some renovations, and so delivered the old copper and other materials for reutilization. From then o…
I can't seem to find a good canonical reference at the moment, but there's some interesting writing in organizational theory about the extent to which some of those kinds of bureaucracies are themselves basically mechanical systems, controlled by code that just happens to be manually executed by human operators. In general, code executed by computers tends to be executed more "rigidly", but in some systems humans can…
I had this exact thought while walking to work this morning.
It came to me that the vast majority of modern society is completely independent of the actual people executing it. There are very few jobs that could not be done just as well by another person with the same training.
Most jobs are like coded modules. They have well-defined inputs and outputs - even creative jobs can be defined in terms of "create something people will pay for".
The system is what runs the world, not the individual people who carry it out.
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#56Great article, really well written! This is what happens when the world is ruled by a robot I take it OP hasn't had the delightful pleasure of dealing with old-fashioned human bureaucracy. My uncle tells some great stories about his time in East Berlin, before the Wall fell. A great example is the post office that did some renovations, and so delivered the old copper and other materials for reutilization. From then o…
I can't seem to find a good canonical reference at the moment, but there's some interesting writing in organizational theory about the extent to which some of those kinds of bureaucracies are themselves basically mechanical systems, controlled by code that just happens to be manually executed by human operators. In general, code executed by computers tends to be executed more "rigidly", but in some systems humans can…
The source code for those kinds of systems is commonly referred to as, "policy."
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#57I believe this has been fixed for a while now. It was fixed by the time I reported this over a week ago, for example. If you see an error in a Knowledge Panel (the box on the right-hand side), look for the "Feedback / More info" link at the bottom of the box and then you can click next to a fact to report a problem. People do review those reports, and that's the fastest way to report an issue.
it's mentioned in the post that the author reported the facts a number of times.
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#58I've been curious to learn how these knowledge boxes work, ever since I saw my dog Lucy show up as the star photo in a search for Rat Terrier: https://www.google.com/search?q=rat+terrier In fact, on a mobile device she's the only photo. Yes! Are these generated algorithmically? Some amount of manual curation? Or what? Of course it is humbling to discover that my dog is much more famous than I am...
Looks like Lucy is the primary exemplar picture for a rat terrier on Wikipedia? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucy,_a_Rat_Terrier.j...
P.S. She's a cute dog!
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#59I wonder if this would suit the criterion for defamation. That would be a really interesting case to see.
To get damages she would need to demonstrate harm. But if she could, this becomes interesting, as Google can not hide behind the usual search-engine defense: they are not merely linking to sites here, but making up their own facts. (IANAL.)
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#60I'd add this to Wikipedia's List of premature obituaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_obituaries#W ... except that you can't cite the subject's own blog as a reliable source-particularly when they apparently wrote it post-mortem.
Amy Wilentz also published her essay on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-wilentz/how-google-killed-... Not sure whether that helps or not though.