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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 29th, 2019

High Scalability

million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C. They'll learn a lot and love you for the hookup. 300,000 games; 13.5 The more quotes the merrier.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Degrading quality for higher profit It is instructive to consider how the algorithmic technologies that underpinned the aggregator platforms of old (think Amazon, Google and Facebook among others) initially deployed to benefit users, were eventually reprogrammed to increase profits for the platform. But it is far from alone.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake is a frequent speaker at many popular conferences and events, such as 100 Days of Google Dev , JAMstakConf , JSConf , SmashingConf , and dozens of others.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Hence, they can’t be promoted separately or found by users who’ve input a search query in Google. As shown on the screenshots below, the product page of the store can be found via Google. You need a site for that. Image credit: Netatmo.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. But there’s no reason that Google and Facebook shouldn’t be accepting deposits, facilitating payments, making loans, managing assets, running quantitative investment funds. They’re currently putting it into traditional financial firms. Are there more quotes?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

Paco Nathan : Frankly, I’d feel a lot more comfortable sending my kids off to school in a self-driving bus if the machine learning models hadn’t been trained solely by Google’s proprietary data. Stacey Higginbotham : a startup in France called GreenWaves Technologies has built a dedicated chip for the Internet of Things.

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