https://youtu.be/kZ9ntfjytTI (@asianometry)
Wow that #Substack CEO interview is a train wreck:
https://www.theverge.com/23681875/substack-notes-twitter-elon-musk-content-moderation-free-speech
Q: No, I really want you to answer that question. Is that allowed on Substack Notes? “We should not allow brown people in the country.”
A: I’m not going to get into gotcha content moderation.
Q: This is not a gotcha... I’m a brown person. Do you think people on Substack should say I should get kicked out of the country?
A: I’m not going to engage in content moderation, “Would you or won’t you this or that?”
Found a great/terrible idea for a keyboard, and immediately thought of @foone who isn't on twitter much anymore.
I hope they appreciate it:
https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1646883953876320263
Just learned that both authors of LZ77 and LZ78 compression methods died this year.
Prof. Abraham Lempel died 7 weeks ago.
Prof. Jacob Ziv died today.
With the recent attention on ChatGPT and OpenAI’s release of their APIs, many developers have developed clients for modern platforms to talk to this super smart AI chatbot. However I’m pretty sure almost nobody has written one for a vintage platform like MS-DOS. This client now supports Hugging Face API and text to speech (TTS) capability. More info on TTS is found at the later part of this post.
What would you do with your life if everyone had enough and would always have enough?
I would make music & art & scientific discoveries to cure chronic diseases.
Until then, I’m working on everyone having enough.
Sure, TikTok is terrible in many ways. But the hypocrisy of its critics, especially members of Congress, is almost beyond belief.
The problem with TikTok is the same one we have with countless other Internet products: They are relentless violators of our privacy and security.
Fix that, and you've fixed TikTok.
Democrats are just as bad as Republicans on this. And so is Big Journalism, which mostly just amplifies the lies.
This is a moral panic with a mercantile edge.