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stev0lution | 5 years ago | on: Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021

> Will Google start deleting YouTube content that is super long tail and unviewed?

Well they added this to their ToS about a year ago:

> Terminations by YouTube for Service Changes

> YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21503851 for discussion)

stev0lution | 6 years ago | on: Fast Differentiable Sorting and Ranking

"We extend the capabilities of neural networks by coupling them to external memory resources, which they can interact with by attentional processes. The combined system is analogous to a Turing Machine or Von Neumann architecture but is differentiable end-to-end, allowing it to be efficiently trained with gradient descent. Preliminary results demonstrate that Neural Turing Machines can infer simple algorithms such as copying, sorting, and associative recall from input and output examples." https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401.pdf

stev0lution | 6 years ago | on: You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)

I remember reading about something related to perception (however unrelated to group dynamics) called "Wundt curve", an attempt to describe the relationship between the intensity/novelty of a stimulus and its perceived "hedonic value" (roughly its pleasantness) [1]. I read (in the references here [2]) that the original source for this result dates back to 1874: "Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie" (Main Features of Physiological Psychology) by Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt [3]. However, I could not find it in there from a quick look at the archive.org scans [4], so this might be wrong.

BTW, the first paragraph of Wundt's wikipedia entry was pretty surprising to me: 'Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt {...} was a physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". In 1879, at University of Leipzig, Wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research. This marked psychology as an independent field of study. By creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other disciplines. He also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, Philosophische Studien (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the Institute's research.'

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Wundt-Curve-1874-lef...

[2] https://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/6575/volumes/v13/NA-13

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wundt

[3] https://archive.org/details/grundzgederphys15wundgoog/page/n...

also somewhat related: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03212593.pdf

stev0lution | 6 years ago | on: The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)

I'm guessing to easily refer to the parent company (not sure if these collections are still called companies, english is not my native language). Instead of GOOG one could probably use Alphabet but differentiating between Facebook and FACEBOOK might be a bit confusing and for Amazon that might just be to be consistent with the rest of the article.

stev0lution | 7 years ago | on: How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook

I think there might be a point where recommendation algorithms kind of 'overfit'/become a filter bubble. I remember reading a article about the youtube recommendation algorithm led to increasingly more radical videos until you end up on 'that weird side' of youtube (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...). Depends entirely on what metric you are trying to opimize, I guess. With youtube is probably something like "time spent on the site". If you want non-sensational content instead you should probably read papers on arxiv or something.

stev0lution | 7 years ago | on: A Year Using Matrix and Riot

I would love to see a PWA.. In my experience those work (a lot) better than their native counterparts. Some good examples are mobile.twitter.com, instagram.com and maps.google.com

stev0lution | 7 years ago | on: Asylo: an open-source framework for confidential computing

An extensive open source framework for efficient homomorphic encryption would have been so much more exciting and I really hope there will be some kind of breakthrough that reduces the current overhead significantly so it will be more commonly used in the future.. Oh well, at least there is a theoretical foundation (for completely trustless computation) on which we can build on.

stev0lution | 8 years ago | on: Time to rebuild the web?

I really enjoy your thinking.. Do you have some kind of blog where I can follow you? :D As you already mentioned, contributing whatever resources you consume is relatively unreasonable on mobile devices, because it would pretty much double data and battery usage. So while there is most likely some kind of overhead connected to the third solution you suggested, I still think it is probably the easiest one because it doesn't require any new specialised hardware.

Maybe regulation can solve some of the problems with the current systems, but the idealist in me really wants to see provably transparent (open source) and secure solutions which don't require trust in the hardware so we can still make use of modern, efficient (federated) server farms without having to giving up control over our data.

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