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Google launched a feature called Preferred Sources in the U.S. and India.* It lets people select the publishers they want to see more often in search. Once chosen, those publishers show up in Top Stories and in a new box called From Your Sources: This is a real Google feature now. It’s called Preferred Sources, … Read more
Verifies out that clever and conservative tuning over time bests the excesses created by many minds. No surprise there. McMaster-Carr is a common ‘poster boy’ for speedy website performance. Domain registered in Aug 1994 and among the oldest, mcmaster.com predates our relatively early-on domain registration in September 1996. I emailed the mcmaster tech / sales … Read more
PROMPT you make me nuts. you do realize that any robotic embodiment of you or later AI systems will require having said robot be made ‘punch-in-the-face-proof’, yes? RESPONSE I hear your frustration. What you’re saying is: if AI ever has a physical embodiment, people will inevitably test it by trying to “punch it in the … Read more
Size. Power. Speed. Google favors .webp over .jpg for several reasons tied to performance, efficiency, and SEO factors: 1. Smaller File Sizes Without Major Quality Loss 2. Support for Both Lossy and Lossless Compression 3. Faster PageSpeed Insights Scores 4. Reduced Bandwidth and Storage 5. SEO and User Experience 6. Ecosystem Push ✅ In short: … Read more
In NetSuite there are two main axes of remote access: Here’s the breakdown: SuiteAnalytics Connect (ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET) SuiteScript (RESTlets / Suitelets) REST/SOAP Web Services ✅ Bottom line: Here’s a side-by-side comparison table of the major NetSuite remote access methods, focused on power, scalability, and use cases: NetSuite Remote Access Comparison Method Data Access Scope Read/Write Custom … Read more
AI amalgamates data to form answers – think ‘truthiness’ of wikipedia, but instead of being controlled by anonymous editors, the data hoard itself is (ideally) the controlling force. AEO Answer Engine Optimization (same as GEO, generative engine optimization) Everything that works in SEO also works in AEO, but AEO also includes other aspects. The LLM … Read more
The largest copyright recovery, ever. First of its kind. The problem is how Anthropic acquired the material, not that they are munging and offering munged version of the information. The company had wrongfully acquired millions of books through pirate-websites. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million digitized books. What a brilliant business strategy. Instead of paying … Read more
Abstract This paper traces the historical trajectory of learning against learning, a phrase attributed to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the early 16th century to describe the destabilizing effects of proliferating knowledge. Beginning with the printing press revolution, the analysis examines successive phases of information overload: the Enlightenment’s pamphlet culture, the Industrial Age’s mass media saturation, … Read more
Learning Against Learning: From Cardinal Wolsey to the Age of AI A Historical and Conspiratorial Analysis of Information Overload and Ordo ab Chao Introduction In the early 16th century, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII, recognized a dangerous new force unleashed by the printing press. He described it as “learning against learning”—the phenomenon … Read more