From my talk at CSSS15 at Northwestern about the role of initial geographic diffusion of a viral cascade and the impact that has on the ultimate popularity of a topic. For a rough draft of the paper on this topic, click below
Mercury ran a profile of me last week, written by Brooke Jackson-Glidden, which is generous and gets the thing I care about right. The part worth extending is the mechanism. Every Graze feed gets built by somebody who knows more about its subject than a central ranking system ever
Almost two years ago I wrote a post here about a repo called sky-feeder, which at the time was about four days old and consisted mostly of a JSON schema and a great deal of optimism. The idea was that feeds ought to be declarative - that you should be
If the original sin of Web 1.0 was the pop-up ad, the original sin of web 2.0 was the move to algorithmic feeds. Opaque optimization strategies aimed at maximizing private revenue for the sake of what was otherwise externally billed as public goods became increasingly toxic, spawning
There's no shortage of analogies for explaining what an LLM is capable of - one of the best, though, is from this New Yorker article proclaiming it as a "blurry JPEG of the web". This metaphor is particularly useful for capturing many of the technical aspects of
