reb00ted

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Quick Notes

By Johannes Ernst

https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/

2020-03-03

Majorities for breaking up Facebook and other tech companies

This and other goodies from the Verge Tech Survey 2020.

Link to the results.
2020-03-03

Radicalization makes money, YouTube edition
- youtube
- radicalization
The economic system is broken if it leads to more radicalization, regardless what political views you might have. How do we reboot YouTube and the money-making imperative behind it, if these are the results?
2020-02-29

So Google has the veto over political fundraising
- politics
- fundraising
- ai
- email
According to this experiment, some candidates’ e-mail never reaches subscribers’ inbox. While others’ passes right in.
2020-02-27

Minus 50% is more like it
I had just been scratching my head when “analysts” were talking about China possibly “slightly missing the 6% growth target”. What do you expect if everybody stays home, and public transport utilization in places is down 85%?

Link to CNN article.
2020-02-26

Ad auctions in the browser?
- ads
- privacy
- google
- browser
Google’s Turtledove proposal. Interesting discussion at The Register. h/t @dmarti
2020-02-25

Privacy-preserving AI
- ai
- privacy
Summary of the possibilities from the #MyData 2019 conference by Oguzhan Gencoglu of @topdatascience.