Vector embeddings (and cosine similarity) aren't really aware of context and parts of speech -- I've used simpler metrics here just to demonstrate the broader point. Google search does have contextual awareness, to some degree, which came about with transformer models and self-attention mechanisms.
This (via CNN) is so painfully obvious, and yet really, really needs to be said out loud:
Anyone in Congress *more* likely to vote for stripping away voting rights because anti-trans bigotry was added to the bill can go straight to hell. Any Democrat should be primaried ASAP.
To be fair, the top of the fence is kind of pointy.
Trump admin will outright bluff and lie their way through this, which will do nothing to change the underlying reality, and will guarantee the worst possible response to that reality.
I ran a bit of an experiment -- how do traditional measures of keyword matching (exact, partial) compare to semantically-aware when we run modern, long-tail queries? We get hung up on GenAI, but Google has come a long way in the past decade -- moz.com/blog/do-keyw...
I give up.
Took us too long to realize that the other side just didn't read at all.
I know Trump doesn't care, but "insane asylum" is also an outdated term referring to a period in history when asylums housed all kinds of people society didn't accept, including the disabled, who were not dangerous or mentally ill.
"Up and to the right" isn't always good.
I'm not saying correlation = causation, but I just want to point out that Google ranking volatility is well-correlated with crude-oil prices this month.
Bunch of sheeple imprisoned by the conventionalist stay-on-the-bridge doctrine!
Elon also did everything possible to back out of the deal, whined about it for weeks, and ultimately couldn't because he went about it in the dumbest way imaginable (including skipping due diligence and setting the price based on a weed joke).
Not defending any of that, but all of this is about 70% the result of his ego and narcissism.
I was thinking today about the irony that -- if he had done his bombing of the nuclear facilities, assessed the damage honestly, and then said "We set Iran back 3-5 years, and we'll do what we need to to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon." -- it would've been a very popular stance.
We should study Doug Burgum for his impressive speed-run from allegedly center-right Presidential candidate to the most pathetic bootlicker imaginable. It took some people, like Marco Rubio, years.
I'd bet good money Trump can't tell a reporter what SAVE stands for, and might not even get 3 out of 4.
I know this is one of the least-worst things about it, but it really grates on me that Trump calls it the "SAVE AMERICA Act" when the 'A' in SAVE stands for American.
Sorry, long morning, and I'm a little ranty.
I would like many, many more Dems in Congress to treat renewable energy as a national security issue, and not some nice-to-have liberal talking point.
Imagine any other industry where a handful of countries had a price-fixing cartel, stocked up supply to control prices, magically released that supply when the high prices made them look bad, and then we thanked them for this abuse.
Yeah, fair point -- you can't really separate monetization from all of the rest of what comes with it.
15 minutes until Hegseth announces the bombing campaigns will only get bigger and wowwer.
(please note that I am not old enough to actually remember sending people telegrams)
Some days, I just want to go back to the telegraph or something. No one's going to bombard you with their every thought if they have to walk over to Western Union and tap out their message in dots and dashes.
Honestly, I'm not even really opposed to ads. It's more the aggressive algorithms that tend to come with them.
Every day, I get closer and closer to just quitting all of it and going back to less convenient ways to connect with people and get my news.
Maybe I'm getting cynical, but my initial reaction to the new interim CEO being a Silicon Valley VC guy was not particularly positive.
Then, when you point this out, you're against the "marketplace of ideas," etc. No, I'm against the monopoly on ideas from people whose ideas are shit.
The one that made me lose it a while back was when Steve Mnuchin had multiple op-eds. Sorry, you're telling me that the Treasury Secretary who's also a billionaire movie producer doesn't have enough ways to share his opinions with us?
