john spurlock 2017

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A for effort

"At times, as many as 80 percent of the clicks on Amazon product listings have been from bots"Amazon trounces rivals in battle of the shopping 'bots' | Reutersmobile.reuters.com

"a very self-conscious and programmed way"Langlands & Bell: the artists storming Silicon Valley's fortresses | Art and design | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com

"five Googlets"Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data | The Economisteconomist.com

♫ "...but can you fake it / for just one more show..."

Blade Runner 2017

"Spon-Con"

Basic keyword search on Amazon Video must be one of those AI-hard problemsAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos says AI is in a ‘golden age’cnbc.com

"None of this may be relevant to your business. Some sites don’t want or need users to return" paggro @slightlylateWhy Are App Install Banners Still A Thing? – Dev Channel – Mediummedium.com

"And, remarkably, what the author is bored writing bores the reader." – @nntaleb

"it is relatively easy to take an existing dataset, modify it slightly, and maintain those statistical properties."Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing | Autodesk Researchautodeskresearch.com

"But being boring doesn’t make them scientists, nor does “fact checking” make them empirical (absence of facts)."Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood – INCERTO – Mediummedium.com

"Our identity is often wrapped up in the type of work we do, which doesn’t fit the micro-job collecting life."BBC - Capital - The next generation of jobs won’t be made up of professionsbbc.com

Combined company to reportedly trade under the ticker $MISCLICKSReport: Content recommendation companies Taboola and Outbrain are in advanced merger talks | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com

"critically-acclaimed mixtape"

"…add a touch screen, call it Smart, sell it to schlubby dads too indebted to buy a midlife crisis car & too unattractive to have an affair"Freddie deFunct on Twitter:"I just published “the three hot trends in Silicon Valley horseshit”"twitter.com

Native apps can do this!

Aka still lovingSign upmobile.twitter.comTwitter is testing live counters for retweets, likes, and replies on Twitter Betaandroidpolice.com

Failure-Driven Development should be a thing.

Just re-read @danluu's great postmortem post:Lessons learned from reading postmortemsdanluu.com

Podcasts gonna jump all over "Subscribe with Amazon" 💸💸💸TechCrunch on Twitter:"Amazon launches “Subscribe with Amazon,” a marketplace for digital subscriptions"twitter.com

"thought-terminating cliche"

"Reading anything by Chelsea Clinton is like spoonfuls of plain oatmeal that periodically conceal toenail clippings"Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing | Vanity Fairvanityfair.com

Follow the (borrowed) moneyClock's Up on Retailers' Borrowed Time - Bloomberg Gadflybloomberg.com

👍Google Play Music will be the default music app on the Galaxy S8, Bixby integration coming | 9to5Google9to5google.com

The future is Bixby-less

Known internally as Project FoxyHenHouseGoogle reportedly working on its own ad-blocking tool to implement in Chrome | 9to5Google9to5google.com

"news-like information"

Beer: the original social networkAB InBev global beer companyab-inbev.co.uk

"keep a lid on the squid, if you will"

IMDb of podcasts = good ideaPodchaser - The Definitive Podcast Databasepodchaser.com

A New Issue Tracker for our AOSP Developers | Android Developers Blogandroid-developers.googleblog.com