• A New Year Alert: Americans Cannot Read

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:57:00
    The United States is a large country with a self-contained nature. Because of its monolith status, the United States is very isolated. The rest of the world views the US as a stupid country and NBC News shares evidence to that statement: “Survey: Growing Number Of U.S. Adults Lack Literacy Skills.” The National Center for […]

  • WhatsApp: Chasing More Money

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:38:00
    Meta aims to make WhatsApp indispensable to businesses around the world. The app is currently responsible for just a fraction of the company’s revenue, but Zuckerberg seems to have high hopes for the messaging platform. Rest of World‘s thorough piece, “How WhatsApp Ate the World,” describes the plan. Writer Issie Lapowsky details the app’s evolution […]

  • The US and Math: Not So Hot

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:07:00
    In recent decades, the US educational system has increasingly emphasized teaching to the test over niceties like critical thinking and deep understanding. How is that working out for us? Not well. Education news site Chalkbeat reports, "U.S. Math Scores Drop on Major International Test." Last year, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assessed […]

  • Chinese AI Lab Deepseek Grinds Ahead…Allegedly

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:57:00
    Is the world’s most innovative AI company a low-profile Chinese startup? ChinaTalk examines “Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race.” The Chinese-tech news site shares an annotated translation of a rare interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng. The journalists note the firm’s latest R1 model just outperformed OpenAI’s o1. In their introduction to the […]

  • Technical Debt: A Weight Many Carry Forward to 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:37:00
    Do you know what technical debt is? It’s also called deign debt and code debt. It refers to a development team prioritizing a project’s delivery over a functional product and the resulting consequences. Usually the project has to be redone. Data debt is a type of technical debt and it refers to the accumulated costs […]

  • Microservices Are Perfect, Are They Not?

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:07:00
    “Microservices” is another synergetic jargon term that is looping the IT industry like the latest viral video. Microservices are replacing monolithic architecture and are supposed to resolve all architectural problems. Cerbos’s article says otherwise: “The Value Of Monitoring And Observability In Microservices, And Associated Challenges.” The article is part of a ten part series that […]

  • Google: Making a Buck Is the Name of the Game

    Updated: 2024-12-30 10:57:00
    This blog post was crafted by a still-living dinobaby. This is a screenshot of YouTube with an interesting advertisement. Take a look: Here’s a larger version of the ad: Now here’s the landing page for the teaser which looks like a link to a video: The site advertising on YouTube.com is Badgeandwallet.com. The company offers […]

  • AI Video Is Improving: Hello, Hollywood!

    Updated: 2024-12-30 10:36:00
    Has AI video gotten scarily believable? Well, yes. For anyone who has not gotten the memo, The Guardian declares, “Video Is AI’s New Frontier—and It Is so Persuasive, We Should All Be Worried.” Writer Victoria Turk describes recent developments: “Video is AI’s new frontier, with OpenAI finally rolling out Sora in the US after first […]

  • Geolocation Data: Available for a Price

    Updated: 2024-12-30 10:07:00
    According to a report from 404 Media, a firm called Fog Data Science is helping law enforcement compile lists of places visited by suspects. Ars Technica reveals, “Location Data Firm Helps Police Find Out When Suspects Visited their Doctor.” Writer Jon Brodkin writes: “Fog Data Science, which says it ‘harness[es] the power of data to […]

  • Debbie Downer Says, No AI Payoff Until 2026

    Updated: 2024-12-27 11:11:30
    Holiday greetings from the Financial Review. Its story “Wall Street Needs to Prepare for an AI Winter” is a joyous description of what’s coming down the Information Highway. The uplifting article sings: shovelling more and more data into larger models will only go so far when it comes to creating “intelligent” capabilities, and we’ve just […]

  • The wisdom of the few Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and dev

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:02:04
    skip to main content Advanced Search Browse About Sign in Register Advanced Search Journals Magazines Proceedings Books SIGs Conferences People More Search ACM Digital Library Search Search Advanced Search 10.1145 1571941.1572033 acmconferences Article Chapter View Abstract Publication Pages ir Conference Proceedings conference-collections ir Conference Proceedings Upcoming Events Authors Affiliations Award Winners More Home Conferences IR Proceedings SIGIR 09 The wisdom of the few : a collaborative filtering approach based on expert opinions from the web research-article Share on The wisdom of the few : a collaborative filtering approach based on expert opinions from the web Authors Xavier Amatriain Neal Lathia Josep . M Pujol Haewoon Kwak Nuria Oliver Authors Info Claims SIGIR 09 :

  • Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation Microsoft Research Your Priva

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:02:01
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  • 2104.13259 Trend Alert How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian Ge

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:01:42
    : Skip to main content We gratefully acknowledge support from the Simons Foundation , member institutions and all . contributors Donate cs arXiv:2104.13259 Help Advanced Search All fields Title Author Abstract Comments Journal reference ACM classification MSC classification Report number arXiv identifier DOI ORCID arXiv author ID Help pages Full text Search open search GO open navigation menu quick links Login Help Pages About Computer Science Social and Information Networks arXiv:2104.13259 cs Submitted on 27 Apr 2021 v1 last revised 3 Sep 2021 this version , v2 : Title Trend Alert : How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election : Authors Maurice Jakesch Kiran Garimella Dean Eckles Mor Naaman View a PDF of the paper titled Trend Alert : How a

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