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Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky
Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky
Almost alone among the web media pioneers, the Journal went the subscription route. So, we’re going to talk to Rich Jaroslovksy, who headed the team that brought the Journal online, to see why they went that route, to learn about the path to the web and much more.
#WSJ#RichJaroslovsky#podcast
·internethistorypodcast.com·
Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky
The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King
The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King
the AI team has recognized that 100 headlines is a retention “threshold” (users that do not retain long-term tend to drop off dramatically after seeing ~100 headlines, similar to Facebook’s “10 friends” rule).
#aggregator#Toutiao
·blog.ycombinator.com·
The Hidden Forces Behind Toutiao: China’s Content King
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators
When used to simply generate new text, GPT2 is capable of writing plausible passages that match what it is given in both style and subject. It rarely shows any of the quirks that mark out previous AI systems, such as forgetting what it is writing about midway through a paragraph, or mangling the syntax of long sentences.
#AI#dystopia#GPT
·theguardian.com·
New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators
The Rise and Demise of RSS
The Rise and Demise of RSS
How a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
#rss#standards
·motherboard.vice.com·
The Rise and Demise of RSS
Selling China by the Sleeve Dance
Selling China by the Sleeve Dance
Beneath the ubiquitous posters for the Shen Yun ballet is a battle between dissidents and the state over the soul of a nation, both at home and across the diaspora.
#china#shenyun
·hazlitt.net·
Selling China by the Sleeve Dance
Apple's new map
Apple's new map
Exhaustive comparison of Apple and Google maps comes down pretty negatively on Apple's closed ecosystem vs. Google's crowdsourced one.
#maps#google#apple
·justinobeirne.com·
Apple's new map
Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
This was Facebook’s actual error: It divided total time spent watching a video not by the total number of users who spent any time watching the video (a group that would have included people “quickly scrolling past muted auto-playing video advertisements”), but instead by only the number of users who watched a video for three seconds or more. The result: “A highly misleading result that favored Facebook.”
#facebook#video#metrics
·niemanlab.org·
Did Facebook’s faulty data push news publishers to make terrible decisions on video?
Facebook Is The World's Biggest Right-Wing Media Company | Crooked Media
Facebook Is The World's Biggest Right-Wing Media Company | Crooked Media
The company’s lip-service defense of free speech is in practice a choice to collapse the distinction between disinformation and news-analysis. The right-wing narrative of social-media censorship is dishonest, but it has also been incredibly effective in pressuring platforms into accepting lies as opinion.
#Facebook
·crooked.com·
Facebook Is The World's Biggest Right-Wing Media Company | Crooked Media