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How Facebook News Feed Works
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Can we make consciousness into an engineering problem? – Michael Graziano
There is a real thing that we call attention – a wildly complex, beautifully adapted method of focusing the brain’s resources on a limited set of signals. Attention is important. Without it, we would be paralysed by the glut of information pouring into us. But there’s no point having it if you can’t control it.
98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?
Smart machines probably won't kill us all—but they'll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.
This Gawker.com style guide from 2007 proves Nick Denton's blog invented web writing
Gawker.com style guide from 2007, written by managing editor Lockhart Steele, Gawker editor Choire Sicha, and Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani.
The inside story of the quick rise and quicker fall of DraftKings and FanDuel
Did I Kill Gawker
Former editor Max Read speculates what brought Nick Denton's publishing empire down while sharing a view from the belly of the beast.
Reviewing Dolores Park’s Weed Edibles — The Bold Italic
Inside The Playlist Factory
The rise of the curator at Spotify and the vital role they play as tastemakers.
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?
Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem
People often forget that machine learning algorithms are only as good as the training set fed into it. If your training set is racially-biased, so will the resulting algorithm.
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The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
A former 1960s bondage-film actress is waging legal combat with a toy company for ownership of her husband’s mail-order aquatic-pet empire.
Gunfight at the V.V. Corral: the shootout over vertical video
Collection of video criticism on vertical video format
How To Start A Bullet Journal, AKA A Diary & Planner For Grown-Ass Adults
Ideas for how to organize your life, old school.
The Deadologists
Jesse Jarnow on the academic research into The Grateful Dead's music, mythology and history.
Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
Eric Fischer geeks out on housing data
Fairness in Machine Learning
Delip Rao warns of inherent bias that can creep into algorithms and the responsibility of the developers of the algorithms to watch for them.
Harnessing Happiness to Build Your Career — Advice from an Uber Product Leader
How to navigate a tech career for continued success
What it’s like to set up Facebook Instant Articles — Medium
Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists? Here's What Happened When It Hired Some.
“They have it down to a science,” said one former curator. “We were truly slaves to the algorithm.”
How we're building our AI assistant with machine learning
The Feed Is Dying
I built a personal chat bot — Why I love it, and you’ll love yours too — Medium
The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup
Kevin Kelly on the coming disruption of AR, VR, and MR
Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps.
AI’s dueling definitions
The meaning of AlphaGo, the AI program that beat a Go champ
Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of ‘deep learning’—which helped Google’s AlphaGo beat a grandmaster—on the past, present and future of AI
Move 37 — Medium
The significance of AlphaGo's pivotal move in Game 2.