The Anatomy Of Viral Content And Internet Outrage
Hear an interview with me and Robin Young on WBUR's Here and Now - we talk about #TheDress, Internet Outrage or Public Shame, and how content goes viral.
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The Knowledge Is at the Edges
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
Graze is joining Flipboard
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
The Future is Algorithmic Feeds on Bluesky
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
How Much Data is Enough for Finetuning an LLM?
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