I wouldn't be surprised if this action was in advance of some kind of acquisition. GOG gets spun off as protection, so they can stick to their mission while somebody like Microsoft, Sony, Tencent or the Saudis add The Witcher and Cyberpunk to their portfolios.
My main advice would be to make NONE of this about you. Be genuinely curious about others. Really listen to them. Look in their eyes when they are talking to you and when you are talking to them. Completely put the notion of you needing or lacking friends in the backseat and put an interest and genuine caring about the lives of random people you meet in the front.
You can't go into this with the goal of gaining something. Go in with the goal of giving of yourself -- your time, attention and interest.
Do the reps on this and you will become a person people want to be around.
Find whatever works for you to be genuinely interested.
People know if you're faking attention, or if you're unnaturally giving.
It's a tricky balance.
We slowly learn by practicing...
I've learnt over time to be more generous (tried to stop keeping a mental record of debts, and try to avoid giving obligations to anyone), and to be less judgemental (acceptance is mostly good).
I find it funny and sad that people get so excited about those Wrapped year-end things on Spotify when these companies are basically withholding all this data all year long and then pretend like it's a special treat when they doll out a peek at it once a year.
It feels to me like "dark mode" (which is a merely single color of customization for an app). We expect so little from our software and services that even these little, previously common features are supposed to be a treat.
Anyway, Last.fm was great -- I never used it that much for discovery, but rather to get insight into what I was listening to. Largely, it didn't say THAT much about my habits because I mostly just listened to my collection on random. My top bands were, for the most part, the bands I had the most of.
I'm on a music discord server (for metal), most people share their weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly charts made from their last.fm data. Here's what I posted yesterday for my weekly: https://i.imgur.com/6jYS8jG.png
>I find it funny and sad that people get so excited about those Wrapped year-end things on Spotify when these companies are basically withholding all this data all year long and then pretend like it's a special treat when they doll out a peek at it once a year.
Skill issue. you can export your listening history whenever you like.
This is interesting, but it seems like it is tracking stories with similar headlines and that's not always how news propagates. Frequently a blogger will read an interview, select an quote from the interview and write a new headline around the quote they cherry picked. It used to be common practice to link the original source, but that always doesn't happen.
I have long thought that search engines, news aggregators and social media companies have a journalistic responsibility to favor the original/primary source of every story, but things have not worked out that way. If you can manage to truly develop something like this it would be a valuable tool for rewarding the work of reporting over SEO.
Anyway, please consider that headlines and time stamps do not tell the entire story when it comes to sourcing.
> I have long thought that search engines, news aggregators and social media companies have a journalistic responsibility to favor the original/primary source of every story
This is complicated somewhat by the few that take an already-circulating story and then add their own actual research rather than just rewording and opining.
Currently I'm using Snowflake’s Arctic embedding model on the whole story not just the title, to cluster stories. There are still some issues, but its not as simple as looking at title publish date.
Yea, I need to do some work on improving first to publish... currently I'm relying pretty heavily on the published date provided in the story itself, but sometimes that is wrong and makes it look like a later publisher was first to publish.
Go hunt down the lineage of the “AI water use” articles floating around.
It’s all circular.
I don’t know how one is supposed to trust any of the media at this point. Especially “reputable” ones that are just as guilty of circular nonsense as anything else.
If you don’t follow the media, you are uninformed. If you follow it, you are misinformed.
Just recently read his memoir, "Me and My Big Ideas," which gives a fascinating look at the meeting of modern computing and the counterculture. It feels more and more important to get these stories down while we still can.
>The cartoon shows a caricature of Chares Proteus Steinmetz – a hero of mine, posing for a photograph at the inauguration of one of his big generators (he taught American engineers how to calculate with alternating current starting around 1890). He was a German immigrant hunchback dwarf and was never admitted to “polite society” of the day, but he changed to world.
>The front of the shirt shows him in front of the massive, throbbing machine – hand on the switch, dressed in formal wear. The rear of the shirt shows the rear view, with Steinmetz’ fingers crossed as the photographer takes his shot.
Phone obsessed parent looking at website while kids stand with rocks in hand by lake, not knowing what to do. "It says you throw the rocks into the water and have fun."
"Wait, wait, Steven...there is an app I can download that will let me track your stone skipping attempts to ensure you are trending toward an optimal stone choice, angle of attack, and release velocity..."
