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Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) - Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
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The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik
The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik
While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology
No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The AI business model is built on hype. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear DeepSeek | Kenan Malik
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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
www.eff.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
thecon.ai
It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
thecon.ai
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
thecon.ai
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Pre-order alert, cover, and website reveal for our book, THE AI CON! (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
thecon.ai
It's out for release on May 13, 2025!
thecon.ai
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵