Since Chris is lurking: will Mojo on GPUs be more like using Jax (relying on compiler), Triton (more control, but abstracted), or more like CUDA (close to maximal control)? Combination? Nvidia and AMD support out of box?
Fascinating. Saw a paper pop up on one of my Semantic Scholar feeds just the other day with the title "Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution". Here's the link https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.454038v2
I still think I prefer Wikiwand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiwand but I like that yours doesn't redirect from Wikipedia (and presumably track you). If you could steal some design elements from Wikiwand I would personally switch over. (More space-efficient ToC, pulls images to the top to make articles more visually interesting, etc)
This is an exciting idea, but the style of the paper is off-putting. It's written in the style of an academic paper, while clearly eschewing associated norms like not giving blatant opinion or waxing philosophical.
"The rationale is not to customize the ranking according to the implicit interests of the user, but to offer a mechanism to define multiple rankings, plural, open and explicit, for only if it is so, can it be trusted."
Please put opinions in a blogpost and uphold the (reasonable) norms of the research community, for only if it is so, can your work be trusted.
> The only reason is because I'm the only developer and simply haven't had time to build it yet!
I see you're using React on the frontend. And, you only have an iOS app but not (yet) an Android app. Are you not using React Native? In that case it's fairly easy to target both platforms. I know RN is a bit of a shitshow but not supporting the biggest mobile platform in the world is arguably worse
> We gather "tag" and "description" metadata for articles even though it isn't currently displayed in the UI.
If you're taking this metadata directly from the articles I'm skeptical about the accuracy/completeness. Anyway, it's better than nothing I guess
> It's not a perfect filter by any means, but keep in mind that even if an article title looks like clickbait it will only rank highly if users are finishing it
This is something, but still high-quality articles with clickbait titles will outcompete high-quality articles without clickbait titles. Incentive still being: write clickbait titles. Anyway, if someone is 0.25x as likely to finish a bad article having clicked it, but 10x more likely to click a clickbait article, you still have a major problem beyond "not perfect", imo
I know it's a big ask for you to solve every single problem with online reading/discussion but this one is so tangled with the rest it's kinda hard to ignore.
Today's AOTD: "If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?"
From the past few weeks, some selections:
- "Meet the social media echo chamber that is radicalizing you & your friends. - Alexa Rohn"
- "Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not."
- "A White Woman, Racism and a Poodle"
- "The American Press Is Destroying Itself"
- "Dear Fuck Up: How Do I Figure Out What I Want in Life When Every Day Feels the Same?"
- "You Should Be Feeling Miserable"
- "Tom Cotton: Send In the Military"
- "The Sickness in Our Food Supply"
I'm sure some of these are great, but be honest: did the title have anything to do with people clicking through?
Why is there no tagging or other organization (besides per author)? Skimming through the frontpage I either have no idea what an article is about or it appears to be some lowest-common-denominator politics article. With reddit I can go read my niche subreddits with topics I actually care about (yeah, I know you don't have enough users to replace this quite yet, but still). With no other hooks for following my interests I feel like this is still abusable with clickbait titles.
Could you have like moderator-written abstracts for the AOTDs, at least? Even better would be an abstract for every article (not sure how you would accomplish this)
I've also had the idea of creating a site which restricts users to having read the article. So, I'm excited about your project.
Couple questions
1) You mention a paywall, but your video says that users who sign-up before paywall stay in forever. You honoring that (the video was posted 5 days ago)? I see that the median comment count on your site is about 3 so I should hope so
2) How exactly are you paying these authors? We can post articles from anyone and then trust you're able to get in contact with them and hand them their money?
"We need the nil state to disarm pointers but that only means these can be nil and so would require a nil check before deref. Doesn't seem to be too hard nor too cumbersome."
This would seem to be the hyper-individualist response.
Our environment/context influences our behavior. Saying, "well, technically any given person could ignore their environment/context and act however is optimal!" isn't very helpful.
This article is acknowledging the environmental/systemic/contextual reality