I knew that IMDb had been around a long time but TIL it predates the World Wide Web, as it was initially launched as Usenet group rec.arts.movies in 1990 and moved to the web in 1993. And it's been owned by Amazon since 1998, because of course it has 🙄
Democratizing Data: How AI Analytics Empowers Every Stakeholder
The democratization of data through AI analytics represents a paradigm shift in how organizations access, analyze, and leverage data. By breaking down barriers to data access, empowering decision-makers, fostering collaboration, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring ethical use of data, AI analytics has the potential to transform organizations and drive innovation at scale.
According to this pitch deck, Open AI would be paid to feature certain publishers' info more prominently. Open AI gets to train on contemporary data from the publisher, the publisher gets links from their website promoted by the AI results.
This suggests that AI replacing search will not improve it, but just further a trend towards more "paid placements" in search results.
"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful #tech companies — #Apple, #Microsoft and #SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent...
“We find experienced #employees impacted by these policies at major #tech companies seek #work elsewhere, taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of #productivity with them,” said... one of the study’s authors.
"“Our findings suggest that #RTO mandates cost the company more than previously thought... These attrition rates aren’t just something that can be managed away.”...
A spike in departures of senior employees... could reflect the “double-pinch” they inflict on managers, who have to deal with the policy’s effects on the teams they lead & in their own lives...
it’s also just a hit to morale...
Maybe managers leave shortly after mandates... “because it’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”
@jake4480 Well, I've noticed that MLB The Show is hard to get after the initial release unless you buy it used. Obviously, physical copies are limited release because Sony et al. want you download their games because, as you note in your blog post, the studios and distributers want to have more control over the IP. They'll come a time, as you know, when we'll be renting games instead of buying them outright...
@wendigo ugh. Absolutely this. They'd love it all online, on a server, and then yeah they can shut it down whenever they want, on their whims. I like physical when I can, I even bought physicals of Conan and Diablo IV for the Series X for this very reason. And for Switch we have a bunch of physicals, some really weird ones too. I just counted, we have 15 haha. Not as many as some. But again, I'm semi picky, only keeping the ones we like. I do like having those carts when possible though.
I keep seeing these stories about huge investments Microsoft, Amazon, and other major tech companies are making around the world. They’re almost always for massive, resource-hungry data centers to power their AI ambitions.
Good afternoon, I'm searching some advice for some software to manage the tasks of a small group.
I have no problems regarding mine specifically, I use TaskWarrior and that is alright.
However, I'd like some simple way to note down which things have to be done overall by the group and which ones are being worked on. It would also be nice if it tracked a little bit how long these things took to complete.
I want something simple, most of the things we just talk to each other. Just not to forget what everyone is doing.
I don't plan this to be keeping track of everything everyone is doing, just important things which may take a while to complete.
I was looking at stuff like Trello and Asana. I'd prefer a tool which is free, but if some significant advantages are available I can pay.
Futurism wanted to know: What kind of a company creates fake authors for a newspaper or magazine and operates them like sock puppets? What they discovered "should alarm anyone who cares about a trustworthy and ethical media industry." https://flip.it/oxcxAC #Tech#Technology#AI#Journalism
Layoffs are hitting workers at some tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Tesla. Here’s why that may backfire, explains Business Insider’s Tim Paradis. "In short, the effects of layoffs can counter the financial benefits of expenses carved out of a P&L." https://flip.it/KibAk7 #Tech#Career#LayOffs#Google#Microsoft#Tesla