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Watching Google Search in 2025
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable…
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable…
Watching Google Search in 2025
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable traffic absolutely plummets to essentially nothing. Review site HouseFresh's story is an example. AI slop generation is flooding the web, and people are feeling like that's what Google…
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December 30, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Watching Google Search in 2025
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable…
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable…
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Translating AI bunk in the wild: a starter guide.
Saw this on the Twitter - it’s lifted from a Sam Altman statement:
Saw this on the Twitter - it’s lifted from a Sam Altman statement:
September 25, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Translating AI bunk in the wild: a starter guide.
Saw this on the Twitter - it’s lifted from a Sam Altman statement:
Saw this on the Twitter - it’s lifted from a Sam Altman statement:
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The long-awaited, controversial new novel is finally out! 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom', get it wherever you like to get books.
Note: The audiobook should be available worldwide! (the print versions have region restrictions, as usual)
Note: The audiobook should be available worldwide! (the print versions have region restrictions, as usual)
September 24, 2024 at 3:02 PM
The long-awaited, controversial new novel is finally out! 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom', get it wherever you like to get books.
Note: The audiobook should be available worldwide! (the print versions have region restrictions, as usual)
Note: The audiobook should be available worldwide! (the print versions have region restrictions, as usual)
Oh my fucking god, he said it! He fucking said they're eating the cats!!!
September 11, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Oh my fucking god, he said it! He fucking said they're eating the cats!!!
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“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
Automation Bias in Mammography: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence BI-RADS Suggestions on Reader Performance | Radiology
Background Automation bias (the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems) is a known source of error in human-machine interactions, but its implications regard...
pubs.rsna.org
September 8, 2024 at 11:48 PM
“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...
Why do outlets insist on credulously front-paging the predictions of a man who has any almost pristine track record of being wrong about the future? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...
Thermonuclear Blasts and New Species: Inside Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Mars
SpaceX employees are working on plans for a Martian city, including dome habitats, spacesuits and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Why do outlets insist on credulously front-paging the predictions of a man who has any almost pristine track record of being wrong about the future? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/t...
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It's amazing we went from “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” to "Let our dumb as shit wrong answer machines help you fail your homework and learn nothing for the zero effort" in just fifty years.
May 23, 2024 at 6:52 PM
It's amazing we went from “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” to "Let our dumb as shit wrong answer machines help you fail your homework and learn nothing for the zero effort" in just fifty years.
reskeet with a banger picture of your cat
April 11, 2024 at 10:13 PM
reskeet with a banger picture of your cat
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Please sit down before you read this post.
So.
The CEO of Exxon-Mobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
There's more... 🧵
(1/n)
fortune.com/2024/02/27/e...
So.
The CEO of Exxon-Mobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
There's more... 🧵
(1/n)
fortune.com/2024/02/27/e...
Exxon Mobil CEO on the 'dirty secret' of Net Zero: 'People who are generating the emissions need to be aware ... and pay the price'
"The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to cost and who's willing to pay for it," Darren Woods said on Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast.
fortune.com
February 28, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Please sit down before you read this post.
So.
The CEO of Exxon-Mobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
There's more... 🧵
(1/n)
fortune.com/2024/02/27/e...
So.
The CEO of Exxon-Mobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."
There's more... 🧵
(1/n)
fortune.com/2024/02/27/e...
Wattle Goat Moth
(Endoxyla lituratus)
(Endoxyla lituratus)
January 25, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Wattle Goat Moth
(Endoxyla lituratus)
(Endoxyla lituratus)
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Watching Google shutter things that actually worked, like Google Play Music, and now Google Podcasts, to turn them into YouTube Music is like someone coming into your kitchen who takes away your blender and kettle then lets you know you'll now only be able to boil water or blend things in your car.
January 3, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Watching Google shutter things that actually worked, like Google Play Music, and now Google Podcasts, to turn them into YouTube Music is like someone coming into your kitchen who takes away your blender and kettle then lets you know you'll now only be able to boil water or blend things in your car.
Either the 'Discover' feed algorithm is pretty good at serving up weird comedic content or this app is bursting at the seams with absolute fucking mutants.
December 18, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Either the 'Discover' feed algorithm is pretty good at serving up weird comedic content or this app is bursting at the seams with absolute fucking mutants.
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the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century
this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.
December 2, 2023 at 1:29 PM
the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century
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By Karel Čapek:
November 18, 2023 at 5:24 PM
By Karel Čapek:
Omnivorous Tussock Moth (Acyphas semiochrea)
November 13, 2023 at 10:40 PM
Omnivorous Tussock Moth (Acyphas semiochrea)