Nicola Jones

Not an adage (but should be): apropos of rage baiting, posts that incite 'anger' beat posts that provoke 'likes' 5:1.

Cunningham's law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer. Attributed to Ward Cunningham by Steven McGeady.

the Hydra effect

Looking for researchers using/playing with Google's new 'deep research' tool for a possible news story. Please be in touch! #NeurIPS2024

Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the...

Social media is proprietary and should not be available for other companies to scrape... as for your personal blog, yes you can write in code to block crawlers, but that has negative implications too (openreview.net/forum?id=66P...)

My new slogan: "I'm not on top of everything, but I am on top of some things." (logo by ChatGPT)

Strava artist draws pictures with his bike and GPS Stephen Lund plots his bikes rides to create incredible GPS images

The bike version is even more impressive! www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...