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Some articles (not in english)

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%...

https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html

Some articles (not in english)

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%...

https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html

https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%B8%AF%E8%AD%A6%E6%94%BB%E4%B8%...

https://www.epochtimes.jp/p/2019/11/48996.html

Most US outlets are not reporting on this part of the story of the siege of CUHK university.

If the police seize control of the university, they can monitor / filter all traffic. The whole city can go dark.

The unique value proposition of bots is that they're embedded inside groups of people, as naturally as group chat. I think we'll be seeing more of this trend in the coming year.

Not that AliExpress is much better with counterfeit, but it is the "fresh" contender to the West. There might be a movement away from Amazon's core business as AliExpress / Ali* expand here.

Protocols are very important (R.I.P. XMPP). The article argues for bots to be the protocols that stitch the services back together, but we still need a standard for these bots to operate within...

The example about Uber as truly "getting" the power of cross-platform distributed bots in the US is spot on.

Here's a rebuttal to the original piece, The Tyranny of Tyranny: https://libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levine

I'm somewhat worried about this upcoming wave of bots replacing jobs. There seem to be 2 paths forward:

1. Star Trek outcome: People will have time to pursue interests outside of their job.

2. Mad Max outcome: Money and resources are hoarded by the people who own the bot industry, everyone else suffers.

3. ??

The inability to monitor their whole network for scam advertising might cripple facebook's dominance as their main revenue source becomes less trusting but the scale of their operations relies on that consistent revenue:

More on the ad scams: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/say-no-to-the-dress

Thanks for posting, our startup in Berlin is moving into the conversation-as-commerce space and this will help us with some design hurdles around user engagement.

This needs to happen in more scientific fields, like a field-specific consensus publishing platform. Everyone agrees to publish their research to benefit everyone else.

It might look something like attention detailed in Show, Attend, Tell: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03044

Which attempts to visualize machine areas of attention that look like: http://www.wildml.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot...

Reminds me of Dennis Mortensen's (founder of x.ai) recent article on the rise of Vertical AIs: http://thesbjournal.com/1165-2/

I'm surprised it doesn't use Character Aware Neural Language Models (CNN -> LSTM RNN) but instead a layered RNN. Interesting!

Powerful new viruses will continue to birth as the Earth warms. A zombie apocalypse might occur regardless of human intervention at this stage.

It's discouraging when new employees expect a certain lifestyle on joining your startup but you're runway is less than a year. Startups have been portrayed as having so many perks that there's an impossibly high standard to strive toward.

This is a depressing consequence of media-fueled racism/discrimination that will further drive the disintegration of the US as a strong competitor in STEM fields on the global stage.

I hate splash sign ups but this looks cool. I've never seen world building like this before

The average news consumer expects bite sized, outrageous chunks of information to wash down with lunch – it's a two way stream of degradation.

NSA employees are so siloed from each other that it limits dissent and self auditing

There are now a few Android apps in development to keep track of the towers your devices use day to day to hopefully detect rogue IMSI catchers.

This one is the most promising: http://signup.spideyapp.com/

They also use tidepools (http://tidepools.co), a platform designed alongside the Red Hook mesh, for local apps on the network (stop & frisk, maps etc.)

Case study: http://www.scribd.com/doc/147627564/Red-Hook-Initiative-Tide...

This kind of article is so much more realistic than any glamorized startup story. As the article says:

"Here’s what people never tell you about startup life. A lot of it is mundane, boring, grunt work. Imagine being stuck in an MMO game where you’re grinding levels without knowing whether you’ll ever make it beyond that 2 by 4 patch of 8bit forest waiting and slaying the same stupid monsters over and over again and then going back in for respawn."

I think this article says a lot about the tribulations of doing your first startup from scratch. I particularly love this part:

"Here’s what people never tell you about startup life. A lot of it is mundane, boring, grunt work. Imagine being stuck in an MMO game where you’re grinding levels without knowing whether you’ll ever make it beyond that 2 by 4 patch of 8bit forest waiting and slaying the same stupid monsters over and over again and then going back in for respawn."

Project Tango is going to be revolutionary, but I'm also interested in how psycho-geographic (situationist) style landmark mapping might complement 1:1 3D representations of the real world…humans tend to navigate based on abstract geometrics

This is super smart – Soundcloud needs to integrate more deeply with the hype / discovery abilities of Twitter.

Soundcloud songs overlaid on Vine vids, etc. could prove amazing as well.

This is theoretically interesting! I want to see this become ubiquitous – connected device apps should be consolidated into one interface, indexed by place (do you need your one lightbulb app outside your home?)

When you walk into a new room, shouldn't all light switches automatically popup on your device?

This almost feels like Wordpress for places and times, with all the widgets and themes…but it needs traction first, tricky.