2023-05-17 link from Clay Shirky | Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable From 2008: The old models of newspaper organization are no longer viable, and there is no general model to replace them. The solution is to experiment with new models for journalism, which may rely on amateurs, sponsorship, or grants, and may fail before finding success. Ultimately, what is needed is not to save newspapers, but to strengthen journalism in new ways. |
2023-05-17 link from N/A | TikTok creators use AI to rewrite history A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power. |
2023-05-16 link from MITCH THERIEAU | All Roll Is B-Roll Adam Curtis Goes Quiet |
2023-05-16 link from Alex Rudal | ChatGPT + Rails ChatGPT streaming with ruby-openai, Rails 7, Hotwire, Turbostream, Sidekiq and Tailwind! - #ChatGPT Streaming.md |
2023-05-08 link from MAGGIE HARRISON | Stanford Director: AI Scientists’ “Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped” The associate director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence compared AI scientists to “late-stage” teens. |
2023-05-06 link from CRISTINA CRIDDLE | TikTok spied on me. Why? A Financial Times journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok. |
2023-05-05 link from Fredrick Ross | The seven programming ur-languages Learning a new language that traces to the same ur-language is an easy shift. Learning one that traces to an unfamiliar ur-language requires significant time and effort and new neural pathways. |
2023-05-05 link from Ted Chiang | Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? |
2023-05-04 link from Jason Kottke | Eternal Spring, a Timelapse of Ice Melting |
2023-05-04 link from Dylan Patel | Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" “And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter. They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.” |