Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup . Mozilla published a blog post two days ago highlight
6 min read · Dec 13, 2016 -- I’ve held this personally close for a long time, to the point where some of my closest friends still aren’t sure whether or not I’m lying or telling the truth. I’m not sur
Matthew Desmond has a piece in the New York Times about homeownership and racial inequality. The piece is mostly good, but one part of it irked me: While most white families own a home, a majority of
“You’re a wizard, Harry,” Hagrid said. “And you’re coming to Hogwarts.” “What’s Hogwarts?” Harry asked. “It’s wizard school.” “It’s not a public school, is it?” “No, it’s privately run.” “Good. Then I
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When I first worked for a (student) newspaper, the job of a publisher seemed odd to me; as far as I and my editorial colleagues were concerned, the publisher was the person the editor-in-chief, who we
Silicon Valley’s emphasis on work-life balance may be evolving, but its priesthood still values a very particular kind of grit. This ideological tension came to blows earlier this week in a marathon T
Pinboard has acquired Delicious. Here’s what you need to know: If you’re a Pinboard user, nothing will change. Sad! If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another place to save your bookmar
It’s not terrible, but essentially, it’s a bland, tepid, barely competent knock-off of “Shark Tank.” Apple made its name on game-changing innovations, but this show is decidedly not one of them.
Mon 16 September 2013 big data / buzzwords / hadoop "So, how much experience do you have with Big Data and Hadoop?" they asked me. I told them that I use Hadoop all the time, but rarely for jobs large
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Between 2001 and 2003, Judith Miller wrote a number of pieces in the New York Times asserting that Iraq had the capability and the ambition to produce weapons of mass destruction. It was fake news. Lo
Published in tech-at-instacart · 4 min read · May 3, 2017 -- Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further. Instacart is excited to announce our first public dataset release, “The Instacart On
As the sun sets, a giant Trump campaign yard sign nearly dwarfs the Antico family, six-bedroom home in Wayland, Massachusetts, November 1, 2016. (AP Photo / Charles Krupa) Throughout the 2016 campaign
Net neutrality is in jeopardy again. We need another grassroots movement By Ashley Boyd , VP Advocacy A little over two years ago, the mood here at Mozilla — and across the broader Internet health mov
2 min read · May 8, 2017 -- So, you are a first time CTO in a start-up. You’ve just landed your seed investment, and you and your team are feeling pretty good about yourselves. At last, you have enoug
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Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine learning is the new mobile' (and everyon
For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and, presumably, get them ad dollars. 2002, Friendster: At last, a way to connect with friends on the…
Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a res
Brian Simpson, Matt Lee, & Daniel Ellis (u/bsimpson, u/madlee, & u/daniel) Each year for April Fools’ , rather than a prank, we like to create a project that explores the way that humans interact at l
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On Tuesday, Reddit announced it was introducing profile pages . The Reddit profile contains a list of the user’s posts in reverse-chronological order, and a follow button for subscribing to them. Co-f
Publishing in the Platform Era April 11, 2017 • 4 min read • By Digiday Facebook’s Instant Article push is in danger of fizzling. Many publishers are deeply unhappy with the monetization on these page
As the calamities amass at Uber, many people — including me — have called for new leadership. Usually, the job of hiring and firing a CEO falls to a company’s board of directors. Yet in a March 21 pho
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Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue The last edition of Norte, a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Responding to killings of journalists, the paper announced on Sund
ON TUESDAY February 28th, in an address to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump vowed to end America’s “terrible drug epidemic”. When discussing America’s social ills, Mr Trump has a tendency to
A look at the Manhattan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. (Courtesy Hachette.) In New York 2140 , Kim Stanley Robinson , one of the towering giants of the science-fiction genre, envisions our c
Bots go bust Deep learning goes commodity AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs MLaaS dies a second death Full stack vertical AI startups actually work With AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of
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