Some selfie indeed.
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Some selfie indeed.
On the badassery of the Marquis de Lafayette
On the badassery of the Marquis de Lafayette
How old was Lafayette when he fought to liberate the US from the British? 18. (And other interesting ages of founding fathers.)
For once, here is a praise of a frenchman by Americans:
Americans fucking love to talk shit about France and how we bailed their asses out after Germany kicked the holy living bejeezus out of them in World War II, but we tend to forget that if it wasn’t for France - and particularly a motherfucker known as the Marquis de Lafayette - we here in the States would all still be speaking with crazy unintelligible British accents and eating a whole lot of spotted dick on our buttered crumpets fish and chips.
The rest of the article is well worth a read.
On the badassery of the Marquis de Lafayette
www.badassoftheweek.com/lafayette…
How old was Lafayette when he fought to liberate the US from the British? 18. (And other interesting ages of founding fathers.)
For once, here is a praise of a frenchman by Americans:
Americans fucking love to talk shit about France and how we bailed their asses out after Germany kicked the holy living bejeezus out of them in World War II, but we tend to forget that if it wasn’t for France - and particularly a motherfucker known as the Marquis de Lafayette - we here in the States would all still be speaking with crazy unintelligible British accents and eating a whole lot of spotted dick on our buttered crumpets fish and chips.
The rest of the article is well worth a read.
In defense, you’re looking for the bad guys, or following money and influence,” he says. “It turns out that a lot of the graph processing work is pretty similar in dating.
This guy John Kleint was working on big data for the military, he is now making a dating app.
Make love, not war: a military contractor helps build a dating app | The Verge
In defense, you’re looking for the bad guys, or following money and influence,” he says. “It turns out that a lot of the graph processing work is pretty similar in dating.
This guy John Kleint was working on big data for the military, he is now making a dating app.
Make love, not war: a military contractor helps build a dating app | The Verge
In an existing toy, for example, spikes in activity turn up the speed of a small fan, which propels a foam ball through an obstacle course—a sort of rudimentary telekinesis.
Amazing.
In an existing toy, for example, spikes in activity turn up the speed of a small fan, which propels a foam ball through an obstacle course—a sort of rudimentary telekinesis.
How Google's Autocomplete Was ... Created / Invented / Born
How Google’s Autocomplete Was … Created / Invented / Born
Megan Garber says it for the Atlantic and it’s true: few things merge philosophy and technology as elegantly as autocomplete.
How Google’s Autocomplete Was … Created / Invented / Born
www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
Megan Garber says it for the Atlantic and it’s true: few things merge philosophy and technology as elegantly as autocomplete.
Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thank-you note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece.
Tom Hanks on why he prefers typewriters over computers.
Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thank-you note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece.
Solarist, a startup which produces cheap, portable desalination machines that rely on solar power. Companies like Solarist, which use the region’s environmental challenges to solve worldwide problems, could truly have a global impact.
Natalie Robehmed giving an overview of the startup environment in the Middle East.
Solarist, a startup which produces cheap, portable desalination machines that rely on solar power. Companies like Solarist, which use the region’s environmental challenges to solve worldwide problems, could truly have a global impact.
With a band whose catalog is as evolutionary and nuanced as The Beatles’s, how can computers truly understand the artist and recommend relevant music to fans? After all, not everybody who loves A Hard Day’s Night necessarily has a soft spot for the weirdest moments on The White Album. For humans, detecting the difference is easy. For machines, it’s not so simple.
Google is trying to solve interesting problems.
With a band whose catalog is as evolutionary and nuanced as The Beatles’s, how can computers truly understand the artist and recommend relevant music to fans? After all, not everybody who loves A Hard Day’s Night necessarily has a soft spot for the weirdest moments on The White Album. For humans, detecting the difference is easy. For machines, it’s not so simple.
Imagine a city where you don’t drive in loops looking for a parking spot because your car drops you off and scoots off to some location to wait, sort of like taxi holding pens at airports. Or maybe it is picked up by a robotic minder and carted off with other vehicles, like a row of shopping carts.
I’m first in line. Driverless cars will indeed mean a lot for the cities of the future.
Imagine a city where you don’t drive in loops looking for a parking spot because your car drops you off and scoots off to some location to wait, sort of like taxi holding pens at airports. Or maybe it is picked up by a robotic minder and carted off with other vehicles, like a row of shopping carts.
Why there will never be a dislike button on Facebook
What if Facebook never implements a dislike button? This feature has been requested for a very, very long time by users. They want a way to express scorn and contempt, a way to dislike what their friends are doing on Facebook, and it is understandable.
But Facebook is smarter than that.
They want the Like button to become the approval stamp of the digital world. Use it to say you liked something, to say that you recommend this movie or book or to say that you are happy Johnny’s getting married.
Recently, Facebook implemented a Like button as a default way to reply on the Messenger app. You receive a message and on Messenger, you can acknowledge the reading of the message by pushing the default Like button that appears where the Send button is, when you haven’t inputted any text.
To conclude a conversation, it’s better to “like” rather than to say ok, or not reply or worse, hesitate infinitely between the two.
Now, the Like button is positively associated with Facebook, and they want to condition us to think that liking things and Facebook are the same. If they unveil a dislike button, the strength of this conditioning would be dramatically diminished.
We could go to Facebook and express our anger or hate, and thus Facebook will be associated with anger or hate. They don’t want that, and funnily enough, I don’t think you want that.
Think about it, and tell me what you think (on Twitter or something).
Why there will never be a dislike button on Facebook
What if Facebook never implements a dislike button? This feature has been requested for a very, very long time by users. They want a way to express scorn and contempt, a way to dislike what their friends are doing on Facebook, and it is understandable.
But Facebook is smarter than that.
They want the Like button to become the approval stamp of the digital world. Use it to say you liked something, to say that you recommend this movie or book or to say that you are happy Johnny’s getting married.
Recently, Facebook implemented a Like button as a default way to reply on the Messenger app. You receive a message and on Messenger, you can acknowledge the reading of the message by pushing the default Like button that appears where the Send button is, when you haven’t inputted any text.
To conclude a conversation, it’s better to “like” rather than to say ok, or not reply or worse, hesitate infinitely between the two.
Now, the Like button is positively associated with Facebook, and they want to condition us to think that liking things and Facebook are the same. If they unveil a dislike button, the strength of this conditioning would be dramatically diminished.
We could go to Facebook and express our anger or hate, and thus Facebook will be associated with anger or hate. They don’t want that, and funnily enough, I don’t think you want that.
Think about it, and tell me what you think (on Twitter or something).