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The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter's biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I'm used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what's going on, and you can't do that without links.
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Former Microsoft exec, I can explain. Microsoft, generally, built products that were the 20% of total possible features that 80% of the market needed at 50% of the price. WordPerfect has legal editions, etc, Harvard Graphics had features beyond PowerPoint, same with Lotus 1-2-3,…
The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.
This is actually not dumb! One of the first things I learned year 1 on the job was that executives are often busy and consume content very differently from the rest of us at work, usually via email on the phone. (BlackBerry at the time 🫠
I have to tweet this; I hope you share it. In the last 8 weeks, you'll have seen reports from first responders who came to places in Southern Israel where massacres were carried out by Hamas. Some come from an organisation called Zaka. I want to describe what Zaka does. A 🧵
Probably 40-50% of LLM use-cases would be made redundant if just 10-20% of the top sites on the internet had better internal search engines.
Wrapping library calls with curly brackets, benefits: collapsible within RStudio and can be run interactively as one line using Ctrl+Enter #RStats #TIL stackoverflow.com/q/74991125/680…
12 thoughts from Propaganda (1965) by Jacques Ellul You'll never look at news the same way again... 1. Breaking news is brainwashing you. Ellul: "To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection." When everything is urgent,…
This 5-minute exchange between @PostBaron and @jaketapper is the single most vivid depiction I’ve seen of the schism between how an institution like the WashPost sees its role, and how its individual journalists often see their roles. h/t @kimmasters
Why Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations at Amazon:
You can still dine at Restaurant Fournaise, on the banks of the Seine, the setting for Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party 140 years ago. Incidentally, that’s Aline, Renoir’s future wife, at lower L, & fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte at lower R artinsociety.com/floating-pleas…
It turns out that if you treat your profession as an explicitly political project, people will extend your profession the same trust they extend politicians.
New Gallup poll: “Americans' Confidence in Higher Education Down Sharply” news.gallup.com/poll/508352/am…
If France was divided into three regions of equal population. Happy #BastilleDay 🇫🇷!
On the bright side, we’re also in a world where pre-LLM training datasets are going to get treated like low-background steel (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-backg…) so we’ll get an Indiana Jones about a USB stick full of 2002 forum posts
I hope someone will tell American officials that they should stand straight when they shake hands with Chinese officials.
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