• Google and X: Shall We Again Love These Bad Dogs?

    Updated: 2023-11-30 11:08:44
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Two stories popped out of my blah newsfeed this morning (Thursday, November 30, 2023). I want to highlight each and offer a handful of observations. Why? I am a dinobaby, and I remember the adults who influenced me telling me to behave, […]

  • Google Maps: Rapid Progress on Un-Usability

    Updated: 2023-11-30 10:45:00
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I read a Xhitter.com post about Google Maps. Those who have either heard me talk about the “new” Google Maps or who have read some of my blog posts on the subject know my view. The current Google Maps is useless for […]

  • Omegle: Hasta La Vista

    Updated: 2023-11-30 10:10:00
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. In the Internet’s early days, users could sign into chatrooms and talk with strangers. While chatrooms have fallen out of favor, the idea of talking with strangers hung on but now it’s accompanied by video. Chat Roulette and Omegle are popular chatting […]

  • Amazon Customer Service: Let Many Flowers Bloom and Die on the Vine

    Updated: 2023-11-29 21:18:12
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. Amazon has been outputting artificial intelligence “assertions” at a furious pace. What’s clear is that Amazon is “into” the volume and variety business in my opinion. The logic of offering multiple “works in progress” and getting them to work reasonably well is […]

  • India Might Not Buy the User-Is-Responsible Argument

    Updated: 2023-11-29 10:45:00
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. India’s elected officials seem to be agitated about deep fakes. No, it is not the disclosure that a company in Spain is collecting $10,000 a month or more from a fake influencer named Aitana López. (Some in India may be following the […]

  • Sweden Has a Social Fabric: The Library Pattern

    Updated: 2023-11-29 10:10:00
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. If a building is left unlocked and unattended, it’s all but guaranteed that people will trespass, rob, and vandalize. While we expect the worst from humanity, sometimes our faith in the species is restored with amazing stories like this from ZME Science: […]

  • Focus on the Long-Term It's better for Users and Business – Google Research

    Updated: 2023-11-28 23:08:52
    : Google Research Google Research Philosophy Research Areas Publications People Resources Outreach Careers Blog Publications Focus on the Long-Term : It's better for Users and Business Henning Hohnhold Deirdre O'Brien Diane Tang Proceedings 21st Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining ACM , Sydney , Australia 2015 Download Google Scholar Copy Bibtex Abstract Over the past 10+ years , online companies large and small have adopted widespread A B testing as a robust data-based method for evaluating potential product improvements . In online experimentation , it is straightforward to measure the short-term effect , i.e . the impact observed during the experiment . However , the short-term effect is not always predictive of the long-term effect , i.e . the final impact once the

  • Enshittification Wikipedia

    Updated: 2023-11-28 23:08:42
    Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Languages Language links are at the top of the page across from the . title Search Search Create account Log in Personal tools Create account Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more Contributions Talk Contents move to sidebar hide Top 1 Definition 2 Examples Toggle Examples subsection 2.1 Amazon 2.2 Bandcamp 2.3 Facebook 2.4 Google Search 2.5 Reddit 2.6 Twitter X 2.7 Unity 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading Toggle the table of contents Enshittification 1 language Español Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar

  • Is YouTube Marching Toward Its Waterloo?

    Updated: 2023-11-28 16:13:52
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. I have limited knowledge of the craft of warfare. I do have a hazy recollection that Napoleon found himself at the wrong end of a pointy stick at the Battle of Waterloo. I do recall that Napoleon lost the battle and experienced […]

  • PicRights in the News: Happy Holidays

    Updated: 2023-11-28 00:17:36
    This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required. With the legal eagles cackling in their nests about artificial intelligence software using content without permission, the notion of rights enforcement is picking up steam. One niche in rights enforcement is the business of using image search tools to locate pictures and […]

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