I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Tag: Pocket
I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice – The Verge
Finally, blue ink is unserious. Use black like an adult.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305832/sam-altman-pen-notebook-muji-uniball
Inside the Colorful and Cultish World of Nerds Gummy Clusters – The New York Times
Enter: Nerds Gummy Clusters.
The effort seems to have worked. In 2018, Nerds products brought in $40 million in sales. In the past calendar year, the company said, that number jumped to $800 million, a 20-fold increase in about six years.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/nerds-gummy-clusters.html
Here’s how long doctors say is too long to sit on the toilet
Experts say you should spend no more than 10 minutes on the john.
— Read on www.12onyourside.com/2024/11/12/heres-how-long-doctors-say-is-too-long-sit-toilet/
The Onion wins Alex Jones’ Infowars in bankruptcy auction
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably Infowars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones’ primary online platform.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936
Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop – The Verge
But this whole process effectively works on the honor system, and for something like the fake Standards album, this is where the problems begin. A distributor takes you at your word that you are who you say you are, Spotify takes the distributor at their word, and boom, there’s a fake album on a real artist’s page. Most of the time when this happens, it’s an honest mistake. In the recent spate of fakes, though, it seems like artists are directly targeted.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2024/11/14/24294995/spotify-ai-fake-albums-scam-distributors-metadata
The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs | Drew Breunig
After plenty of discussions and tons of exploration, I think we can simplify the world of AI use cases into three simple, distinct buckets:
- Gods: Super-intelligent, artificial entities that do things autonomously.
- Interns: Supervised copilots that collaborate with experts, focusing on grunt work.
- Cogs: Functions optimized to perform a single task extremely well, usually as part of a pipeline or interface.
Let’s break these down, one by one.
— Read on www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.html
I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. | Nieman Journalism Lab
I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.
— Read on
Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend
We began dating in the summer of 2015 and broke up in the spring of 2016. Sentiment analysis is the process of computationally identifying and categorizing the emotions expressed in a piece of text as positive, negative, or neutral. NLTK’s VADER tools were run on every message that contained text.
Mute, Block, Breathe: How to deal with (un)Social Media
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, said something in a 2020 conversation that has stuck with me since. You can extend this to almost all social media, which has become quite unsocial these days. I have been well aware of the rise of conflict culture for over half a decade.