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Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
Now this is pretty weird: I just got blocked by Twitter for a tweet that I did not make:
Jacques Mattheij
I’ve begun to notice that a lot of endlessly repeated statements about AI by the vendors of hosted AI inference and their sympathizers are strongly contradicting reality, and yet, they keep making these statements. A short list of the ones I’ve seen recently (there may be others as well):
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Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve run some analysis on the one million most popular sites on the web.
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A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014)
In this HN thread I commented on how the story about the People’s Republic of Donetsk reminded me of my days in communist Poland.
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When Sued Don't Tweet
The employer of one of my coding heroes, John Carmack is currently being sued by ZeniMax over unspecified IP that he may or may not have taken with him to his new spot.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Lock-In
There lots of products that came to market in the recent past and that will come to market in the near future that use some kind of cloud hosted component. In many cases these products rightly use some kind of off-device service in order to provide you with features that would otherwise not be possible. Sometimes…
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All the Technology but None of the Love
This post has been re-written several times, so please forgive me if it does not come across as coherent as I would like to. The main reason for the re-write was this post by Martin Wedge . Originally I planned to scrap the whole thing but maybe having a different perspective will help, I’ve deleted those parts that…
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Google Search/Web history disable does nothing for privacy
There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding about the Google Search/Web History disable switch that google provides to its more privacy conscious users. It’s not exactly the most advertised feature (you won’t find it in your profile page) to begin with, but once you do find it (it’s on the history page, you have…
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Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo
Imagine a contest in which we are going to pit man against machine. But instead of measuring who is best in playing the game of ‘Go’ we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control…
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48x32: A 1536 LED Game Computer
My children are hopelessly addicted to their gaming devices. This is a problem, but not one that I can directly solve because the school mandates that they have both an Android smartphone and a Windows laptop. Rather than to meet the problem head on I figured the better way to address it is to replace consumption with…
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Please Do Not Be a One Trick Pony
Paul Simon has a song called ‘One Trick Pony’ with a bit in it that goes like this:
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GDPR Hysteria Part II, Nuts and Bolts, Actionable Advice
Part I of this is here , if you haven’t read it yet please do so before reading this installment, it will help to establish context.
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This white powder will kill me one day
There are lots of bad things that you can insert into your system through various ways that all seem to be represented in physical form as white powder. Heroin, Cocaine, various other chemicals that people will consume in order to alter their state of consciousness. I hate drugs, with a passion. I’ve seen up close in…
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HN long term change
HN visitors are generally worried that HN is changing, and most of the worries center (obviously) around whether or not it is changing for the worse.
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