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Turning Your Root URL Into a DuckDB Remote Database,2024
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Will Surging Crypto Prices Damper Interest in AI?,2024
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Transitioning from the Attention Era to the Automation Era,2024
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AI Search Apps Succeed Because of Their UI, Not their LLMs,2024
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Generating Descriptive Weather Reports with LLMs,2024
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The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs,2024
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Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File,2024
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We Need Help With Content Discovery More Than Content Generation,2024
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Conflating Overture Places Using DuckDB, Ollama, Embeddings, and More,2024
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What Remains After an AI Collapse?,2024
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When is a Minicar as Dangerous as a 3-Ton Truck?,2024
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We Need an Ari Emanuel for Small OSS,2024
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The Right to Confront Your AI Accuser,2024
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Stewart Brand on Finding Where the Future is Being Made,2024
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Domain Expertise is the Difference Maker for Data Scientists,2024
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How to Build a Bigger Bubble,2024
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Towards Standardizing Place,2024
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Prompt Engineering at the End of the Universe,2024
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Enriching CSVs with H3,2024
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Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Sober,2024
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Be Better, Not Smaller,2024
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Using DuckDB to Map Overture GERS IDs to US Census FIPs Codes,2024
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Being the "Xerox" isn't Easy,2024
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The Eras of Domain Names,2024
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Sober AI is the Norm,2024
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A Plea for Sober AI,2024
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Introducing StepList,2024
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A POI Database in One Line,2024
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The Rise of Audio AR,2024
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Paying the AI Premium,2024
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In Pursuit of Quiet AI Features,2024
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Déjà Connu: AI Copilots Reveal Well-Traveled Paths,2023
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My CCPA Dialog With OpenAI,2023
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A Foundation Model For Every Culture,2023
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A Big Year For Small Models,2023
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The Tyranny of the Blank Textbox,2023
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Extreme Compression with AI: Fitting a 45 Minute Podcast into 40kbs,2023
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The AI Market is Firming Up Fast,2023
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Finding Bathroom Faucets with Embeddings,2023
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Manipulating AI: Prompt Injection, Trap Tokens, & Post-Training Suggestion,2023
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Considering AI Privacy Scenarios,2023
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The Platypus In The Room,2023
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Practical AI For App Makers,2023
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AI Lies, Privacy, & OpenAI,2023
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We Need AI Safewords,2023
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Why Media Metrics Matter,2022
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The Gauntlet Growing Social Networks Face Just Got Harder,2020
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How to Build a Buzzword,2020
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What are We Waiting For?,2020
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How the iPhone Led to Today’s Internet Outage,2016
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Keeping Up with the Joneses, Today,2016
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I Dream of the Post Office Buying Twitter,2016
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Spectacles are the Anti-Glass,2016
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Do Algorithms Find Depression or Cause Depression?,2016
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Apple Shouldn’t Kill the Headphone Jack,2016
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A Community Camera Manifesto,2016
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The Business Implications of Machine Learning,2016
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Motivations Behind Calls for Podcast Data,2016
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Discussions We Will Have in 2016,2016
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Fake Can Be Just as Good,2015
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Ways of Thinking About Products: Starter Kits,2015
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What I’ve Learned About the Gold Rush So Far,2015
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On Convenience-Tech and Trusting Technology,2014
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On Nuclear Weapons and Complex Systems,2014
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The State of Technology in 2013: What We Learn from Cameras,2014
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The 5 Blows to the Human Ego,2013
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Google Glass is Just Like the Segway – and Similarly Doomed,2013
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The "Remote President",2013
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Habits are Cues for Innovation,2012
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Multisignal Tools & Mutable Art,2011
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Siri, Violin Vibratto, and Bing Crosby's Croon,2011
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The Idea of a Computer is Diffusing,2011
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On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to Speak Humanely,2011
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Loyal Customer Myopia,2011
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On Chat Roulette. Or, Never Judge a New Medium by its Early Adopters,2010