O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. Speech recognition errors : ChatGPT’s speech recognition system (presumably based on OpenAI’s open-source Whisper model ) is very good, but it does at times misinterpret what I’m saying.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 73

O'Reilly

JUNE 15, 2021

This evolved into full login systems with passwords, password reset, two factor authentication, biometric authentication, and more. The account switching model wasn’t added until visual systems like Windows arrived, but account management was poorly designed and rarely used. Everyone just piggybacked on each other’s access.

IoT 90

IoT Transportation Entertainment Infrastructure 90