Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It…
I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.
Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.
No. Most companies have employees sign paperwork that prohibits them from doing exactly this.
Excel is an ancient and complex beast. I get the appeal of building this project---it sounds fun---but trying to duplicate the Excel engine to the level of producing identical outputs is, frankly, bonkers. The author…
The graphs in the post show the traffic decline starting around May 2022, months before ChatGPT was available. I'd wager the cause is a change in Google's algorithm. Most of the time I end up on Stack Overflow, it's…
...and the same folks who rail against immigration can often be found lamenting the low national birth rate. It makes one suspect their complaint isn't with the rate of population growth, but with its hue.
I'll go further than "sounds weird". It's a shibboleth that associates the speaker with certain misogynistic red-pill internet subcultures. Anybody who doesn't want that association should probably just say "women"…
It's absolutely trivial if you have a human review changes. But that's expensive. So I'd assert the problem is trivial but expensive, and Amazon lacks the proper incentives to do anything about it: they make money from…
> Why would I do it? Because the investors want you to [1]. Companies are using this as an excuse to cut unprofitable projects (e.g., Alexa). They over-hired before interest rates went up, when borrowing money was…
I admire your commitment to this discussion :) In the Three Body Trilogy, the hyper-advanced aliens use projectiles accelerated to very near the speed of light. The premise is that there's enough energy in these that…
Maybe the disconnect is the word "godlike". A truly godlike power wouldn't care, because they're beyond threat. But imagine something more like the cold war: Powers capable of mutual destruction, but not godlike. In the…
FAANG jobs stack rank you against people working 60+ hours a week who are desperate to keep their visas. You might not be technically required to work those long hours, but if you want to keep your job, you have to,…
Yes. The Ask MetaFilter section of the site has a deep bank of questions with high-quality answers. Google used to weight these heavily in its search results, so Google directed a lot of potential new users to the site…
I made the mistake of clicking that link on my phone without an ad-blocker, and woooooo boy... far-right fascist ads front and center. Sigh.
Pro tip: If you absolutely must buy the junk being sold by MOFFBUZW and other randomly generated drop-shipper brands, the exact same product is usually available on AliExpress for 10% the price.
Most recent program: I wanted time-lapse photos of some potted plants I'm trying to grow. So I stuck QR codes on the pots and take a picture of each one each day with my phone. That goes to Google Photos, and a cron job…
Mito looks very cool! Looking forward to trying it. The blending of spreadsheets and notebooks seems inevitable. One trend notebook-as-program. I've heard several variations of this: "The data scientists give us a…
No, the teams weren't trying to exclude women. Not at all. They were representative of the company and the entire industry. There are very few women in tech. So then the question is why are very few women in tech? If…
"The judge responded by disallowing the zoomed-in footage unless the prosecution could prove that it wasn’t manipulated, and only giving them 20 minutes to find and produce an expert witness from Apple, which was…
It's almost as if any crypto scheme whose mining entails the massive waste of a resource is going to cause problems.
> Authority is the problem. We need to use our own minds. No offense, but that depends on the quality of minds. What you've just said is exactly what Q-Anon proponents say, just before they go on to repeat absolutely…
It's hilarious to see libertarians whining about being oppressed by corporations. Like, dude, isn't your whole philosophy that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want without regard for anybody else? Go…
One of the frustrating things about "the hum" that the article mentions is that, academically, it's been lumped into the lunatic fringe of conspiracy theories, and serious scientists aren't interested. It does seem like…
It definitely is a thing; see my reply above. It's the engines. I was able to experimentally connect /one/ source of hum to tug boats specifically. Interestingly, though, the huge container ships that passed by did not…
Yeah, I know the point of this site is to give us a dystopian shock by showing us how much information Big Tech extracts from our photos, but it's inadvertently a pretty good advertisement for Google's Vision API. It…
I wonder how unique those floor tile patterns are? If that's taken on a military base in Korea, it might be possible to find the exact location of the photo.
Such bad memories of the team where everything was oriented around the weekly demo: One day a week spent on throwaway work to make a demo run, and then getting yelled at for not being productive enough.
No. Most companies have employees sign paperwork that prohibits them from doing exactly this.
Excel is an ancient and complex beast. I get the appeal of building this project---it sounds fun---but trying to duplicate the Excel engine to the level of producing identical outputs is, frankly, bonkers. The author…
The graphs in the post show the traffic decline starting around May 2022, months before ChatGPT was available. I'd wager the cause is a change in Google's algorithm. Most of the time I end up on Stack Overflow, it's…
...and the same folks who rail against immigration can often be found lamenting the low national birth rate. It makes one suspect their complaint isn't with the rate of population growth, but with its hue.
I'll go further than "sounds weird". It's a shibboleth that associates the speaker with certain misogynistic red-pill internet subcultures. Anybody who doesn't want that association should probably just say "women"…
It's absolutely trivial if you have a human review changes. But that's expensive. So I'd assert the problem is trivial but expensive, and Amazon lacks the proper incentives to do anything about it: they make money from…
> Why would I do it? Because the investors want you to [1]. Companies are using this as an excuse to cut unprofitable projects (e.g., Alexa). They over-hired before interest rates went up, when borrowing money was…
I admire your commitment to this discussion :) In the Three Body Trilogy, the hyper-advanced aliens use projectiles accelerated to very near the speed of light. The premise is that there's enough energy in these that…
Maybe the disconnect is the word "godlike". A truly godlike power wouldn't care, because they're beyond threat. But imagine something more like the cold war: Powers capable of mutual destruction, but not godlike. In the…
FAANG jobs stack rank you against people working 60+ hours a week who are desperate to keep their visas. You might not be technically required to work those long hours, but if you want to keep your job, you have to,…
Yes. The Ask MetaFilter section of the site has a deep bank of questions with high-quality answers. Google used to weight these heavily in its search results, so Google directed a lot of potential new users to the site…
I made the mistake of clicking that link on my phone without an ad-blocker, and woooooo boy... far-right fascist ads front and center. Sigh.
Pro tip: If you absolutely must buy the junk being sold by MOFFBUZW and other randomly generated drop-shipper brands, the exact same product is usually available on AliExpress for 10% the price.
Most recent program: I wanted time-lapse photos of some potted plants I'm trying to grow. So I stuck QR codes on the pots and take a picture of each one each day with my phone. That goes to Google Photos, and a cron job…
Mito looks very cool! Looking forward to trying it. The blending of spreadsheets and notebooks seems inevitable. One trend notebook-as-program. I've heard several variations of this: "The data scientists give us a…
No, the teams weren't trying to exclude women. Not at all. They were representative of the company and the entire industry. There are very few women in tech. So then the question is why are very few women in tech? If…
"The judge responded by disallowing the zoomed-in footage unless the prosecution could prove that it wasn’t manipulated, and only giving them 20 minutes to find and produce an expert witness from Apple, which was…
It's almost as if any crypto scheme whose mining entails the massive waste of a resource is going to cause problems.
> Authority is the problem. We need to use our own minds. No offense, but that depends on the quality of minds. What you've just said is exactly what Q-Anon proponents say, just before they go on to repeat absolutely…
It's hilarious to see libertarians whining about being oppressed by corporations. Like, dude, isn't your whole philosophy that corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want without regard for anybody else? Go…
One of the frustrating things about "the hum" that the article mentions is that, academically, it's been lumped into the lunatic fringe of conspiracy theories, and serious scientists aren't interested. It does seem like…
It definitely is a thing; see my reply above. It's the engines. I was able to experimentally connect /one/ source of hum to tug boats specifically. Interestingly, though, the huge container ships that passed by did not…