- Teens have figured out how to mess with Instagram’s tracking algorithm – CNET
Each time she refreshed the Explore tab, it was a completely different topic, none of which she was interested in. That’s because Mosley wasn’t the only person using this account — it belonged to a group of her friends, at least five of whom could be on at any given time. Maybe they couldn’t hide their data footprints, but they could at least leave hundreds behind to confuse trackers.These teenagers are relying on a sophisticated network of trusted Instagram users to post content from multiple different devices, from multiple different locations.
- Assembler — a Jigsaw experiment
Assembler analyzes images using detectors — technology trained to identify specific types of manipulation — and evaluates if and where images may have been altered.–this seems to be a pattern that won’t go well
- Steven Donovan on Instagram: “There were a lot of stairs to the bottom so @adrenaline.addiction took the quick way down as soon as we showed up. Most of the cenotes…”
Seeing the second video gives a bit of insight into how strange the video work has gotten. That selfie stick . . . - Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | Things I Believe About Software Engineering
Being aligned with teammates on what you’re building is more important than building the right thing.Peak productivity for most software engineers happens closer to 2 hours a day of work than 8 hours.
Most measures of success are almost entirely uncorrelated with merit.
Thinking about things is a massively valuable and underutilized skill. Most people are trained to not apply this skill.
How kind your teammates are has a larger impact on your effectiveness than the programming language you use.
The amount of sleep that you get has a larger impact on your effectiveness than the programming language you use.
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