Claire Tafat
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Claire Tafat
In 2012, Google doubled down on the OneBox with a redesign that deëmphasized the classic blue links to external Web sites in favor of Google’s own properties, like Shopping and Maps, and immediate answers culled from sites like Wikipedia. This made Google even more convenient and powerful, but also had the effect of starving the Web of users:... See more
How Will A.I. Learn Next?
Computational Concentration of Power
It was around this time that, in some sense, the quality of the Web as a whole began to decline, with the notable exception of the few crowdsourced knowledge projects that managed to survive. There’s a reason that appending “reddit” or “wiki” to search terms has become an indispensable productivity hack: in a hollowed-out Web overrun with spammers and content farms, these have become some of the last places where real, knowledgeable humans hang out.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-will-ai-learn-next
research is a way of life
it is an ongoing process that should be fun and led by curiosity and a desire to explore what is unknown to you
it goes beyond what formal education tells you research is— it should not feel like something you have to do. it should be something you love to do because research exists everywhere— research is looking up a
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How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
Research is a ceremony for building closer relationship with an idea.