Generalist 1 year ago

NYT: “The only thing that’s holding us back from being as good as ChatGPT is literally just data volume,” Facebook VP "Many FB users had deleted their earlier posts, and the platform wasn’t where people wrote essay-type content" Threads as human-generated training data platform

Generalist 1 year ago

While original Lykke Li's - I follow Rivers is distasteful pop, Marika's Hackman cover is wildly different. Subtle, reverb'ed, acoustic, vocal centered. #GLMusicDiscovery

Generalist 1 year ago

Arista downgraded. Analyst says, that $ANET might be losing an edge in that technology to Nvidia. "We believe Nvidia has access to the largest and the highest volume of Ethernet switching fabrics today" vs competitors like Broadcom, Marvell Technology, and Cisco

Generalist 1 year ago

Biden collecting some easy points today: -first ever limit to dangerous 'forever chemicals' (PFAS) -'considering' ending the prosecution of Julian Assange after Australia urged U.S. to drop WikiLeaks founder's case Decades late, but better than never.

Generalist 1 year ago

Mark is not the only one that can copy: TikTok testing new photo app to rival Instagram

Generalist 1 year ago

Saudis, that have male guardianship and actively imprisons or makes women poof was elected in UN to lead UN Woman's Forum. Spectacular.

Generalist 1 year ago

Out of ~2h 1997 Love Parade set, Pitch Raider's - I Know was the only one to come through to personal playlist. Unfortunately there's very little info on the artist. Instead of usual pic, here's a collective spirit of 97. #GLMusicDiscovery Proper #techno

Generalist 1 year ago

"Microsoft, OpenAI plan $100 billion data-center project, media report says" Bigly capex to put hollywood on Sora rails. Just like semi leather jacket guy said: "every pixel will be generated" Hopefully MSFTs modular nuclear is ready by then, else would be a shame.

Generalist 1 year ago

$SQ lawsuit against $MA and $V bears fruit. 4bps win. Forbes. 2023-07: “As the number of interchange categories has increased dramatically, Visa and Mastercard have captured ever-greater margins through increased opacity and complexity,” the lawsuit reads. Congrats @jack !

Generalist 1 year ago

Tiktok take rate from gifts to streamers may be around ~60%. Dollars to coins. coins to diamonds, diamonds to dollars. Obfuscating their take rate and fostering addictions.

Inside TikTok's money-making machine — and the Aussies 'sucked into the wormhole'

TikTok is turning social media into a popularity contest worth millions, but for some, it has a dark side.

Great article. And damn, some of the streams are/were reminiscent of dark net.

Generalist 1 year ago

Pew: "we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In the opt-in survey, 12% of adults under 30 claimed this qualification[...]. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%" #survey #data

Generalist 1 year ago

Better late than never. $GOOG tweaking search algo to curtail LLM generated SEO optimized trash. Effective May 5.

Google

New ways we’re tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.

Generalist 1 year ago

Apparently Thrasio, Amazon-focused aggregator filed for bankruptcy. Thrasio had previously been one of the most well-capitalized aggregators. Sector had perfect storm of higher rates at peak leverageinventory glut and slower sales. $ATER

Generalist 1 year ago

Been a while since last remix feature in #GLMusicDiscovery. Original is okay and definitely a solid base, especially vocal line but Berlin based Caleesi made it a solid sex playlist material.

SoundCloud

AFAR - Im Bad (Caleesi Remix) (LUL020)

LISTEN & BUY https://lautundlui.se/afar-rational-ecstasy-lul020/ Work, eat, meet, repeat. A record of its own kind, hovering between dystopian ref...

Generalist 1 year ago

"Why would you introduce so many firearms into Mexico? The anti-American sentiment in Mexico is at an all time high and it's been growing." - former Baja police agent

Generalist 1 year ago

Lowest US wage growth sector in February? IT.

Generalist 1 year ago

Vice interviewed semiconductor engineer who left TSMC for mainland China. Says salary is 3 times bigger than what TSMC pays.

Generalist 1 year ago

There exists a breakpoint, at which cash is a more viable alternative than digital transactions in carbon footprint context, says CEO of Lithuanian state-owned coin mint.

Generalist 1 year ago

Amazon drops egress fees on data transfers. Of course this generosity is not without Vestager's help. #NET

Amazon Web Services

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS | Amazon Web Services

You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build...

Generalist 1 year ago

Faggot is playing tricks on Indians. Saw headline about Nepalese w/ same story before. Ads of discounted visas, "private universities" only to end up in war against will. India: every case of Indians being duped into fighting in the war had been "strongly taken up" w/ Moscow