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GPT-3
May 2020 Gwern.net newsletter: GPT-3 scaling, implications, deep theory; anime GAN updates, and 1 book review.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,889 posts.
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A Clash of Cultures
There’s an Internet controversy going on between Dale Dougherty, the CEO of Maker Media and Naomi Wu ( @realsexycyborg ), a Chinese Maker and Internet personality. Briefly, Dale Doughtery tweeted a single line questioning Naomi Wu’s authenticity, which is destroying Naomi’s reputation and livelihood in China.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)
Homer: There's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
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Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps
As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts pick the content you need and they deliver it to you. You have little say in the matter. There was one newspaper in my … Continue reading Stop spending…
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Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
Get Satisfaction, a third-party customer service app/community, allows customers to offer feedback, make suggestions, get their questions answered, and generally get help with a product or service. A good idea Building support/community infrastructure is a pain point for a lot of companies. The…
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Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry
There has been an explosive new development in how scientific research is read and distributed. It’s name is Sci-Hub [https://web.archive.org/web/20181007100235/https://sci-hub.cc/]. Founded in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan (who was, at the time, a 22 year-old graduate student based in
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Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report [pdf]
We use data to tell stories of business-related trends we focus on. We hope others take the ideas, build on them & make them better.
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Schneier's response to Eric Schmidt
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example…
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I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (2018)
A test that hijacked the Chrome back button to send visitors to a fake Google results page, then to mirrored competitor pages where heatmaps, sessions and typing were recorded. Google de-indexed the whole domain.
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A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
It's flattering to see others appreciate our design and data visualization. Here is one YC company that appreciated us a bit too much.
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Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
Some thoughts about why npm style micro-packages are a huge liability for everybody and what we could do to make them work.
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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign
Meta censored a political organisation during a national voting campaign, blamed its own automation, then claimed its automated systems had detected another automated tool.
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The Content Marketing Handbook
A 30,000+ word blog post about how to write about information and make it spread. And something new from us: The Priceonomics Data Studio.
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How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market
To celebrate the v2.0 of my successful and innovative app Word Wizard , and the fact that I’ve made $ 200k on the App Store, I’ve decided t...
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The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it
The top 1 percent of Americans now earn 21 percent of total national income. Why? Jonathan Rothwell debunks three myths often used to explain away their success.
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Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
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“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
Do 10x engineers exist? And what does the term even mean, anyway?
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What's Salesforce? (2019)
Customer relationship management (CRM) is the biggest, fastest growing software market in the world. $40B is spent on CRMs annually, and almost all companies have one. But for those of us that don’t directly use a CRM… what’s the big deal? A CRM is the source-of-truth for all customer data and interactions. Need to…
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We Fight for the Users
From beginner guides to advanced strategies, our experts share insider tips to supercharge your web presence.
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Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
From User-Agent tricks to canvas hashes, see how modern device detection—Picasso, fonts, emojis, touch—makes spoofing fail. Learn how to blend in safely.