On Wednesday, Netflix announced that Microsoft won the top prize in ad tech and will serve as the streamer’s global advertising technology and sales partner as the company builds a much-anticipated ad-supported tier, which could debut as early as the end of this year. The partnership came as a surprise to the ad industry, which…Read More
There might be a 100% correlation between what you do and what you get and what you want (if you’re trying to train for the hundred-meter dash.)
Anything that makes you go faster is correlated with the goal, which is winning the race.
On the other hand, being funny isn’t always correlated with being a rich and famous comedian. Being the funniest is not the same in comedy as being the fastest is in sprinting.
And most of what we spend our time on is closer to comedy than it is to sprinting. The things we believe are important, useful or moral are not always related to the metrics that the marketplace focuses on.
That’s partly because we’re not being compared using something as simple as a stopwatch. And it’s because what other people seek out might not match what we think is the point of the work.
It’s important to figure out whether the thing you want to accomplish is correlated with the performance that some imagine it might be.
For a lot of us, that’s more difficult than it sounds.
A study published earlier this week by Surge AI appears to lay bare one of the biggest problems plaguing the AI industry: bullshit, exploitative data-labeling practices. Last year, Google built a dataset called “GoEmotions.” It was billed as a “fine-grained emotion dataset” — basically a ready-to-train-on dataset for building AI that can recognize emotional sentiment in text. Per a Google blog post: In “GoEmotions: A Dataset of Fine-Grained Emotions”, we describe GoEmotions, a human-annotated dataset of 58k Reddit comments extracted from popular English-language subreddits and labeled with 27 emotion categories. As the largest fully annotated English language fine-grained emotion dataset…
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TwitchCon is back for the first time since 2019, set for July 16 and 17 in Amsterdam. Twitch co-founder and CEO Emmett Shear and several creators will kick off the convention for the Twitch community and creators July 16 at 5 a.m. ET, and the event will include competitive Twitch Rivals gaming, cosplay contests, creator…Read More
Forget all the workout pants, leggings and sporty tank tops. Peloton’s latest work shows community members that its app makes working out so accessible that fitness can achieved in any state–even when you aren’t totally dressed for it. In celebration of National Nude Day, Peloton partnered with actor Christopher Meloni for a new ad highlighting…Read More
Throughout the pandemic, entrepreneurialism has thrived, with more new businesses registered last year than any other on record. Employers should take note. After all, entrepreneurialism and creativity go hand in hand. It’s not only job offers from competitors that hiring managers need to watch out for these days. As the workforce evolves, we are seeing…Read More
ABC reality juggernaut The Bachelorette is the star of Twitter’s test of custom timelines on the web. The social network said custom timelines are crafted by developers and populated with tweets and other media from accounts, hashtags and other surfaces om the platform related to a specific theme. The custom timeline for The Bachelorette will…Read More
The test of Instagram Subscriptions is now available to “tens of thousands” of creators in the U.S., and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and head of Instagram Adam Mosseri detailed three new options for those creators. Meta began testing Instagram Subscriptions in January with 10 creators: @alanchikinchow, @alizakelly, @bunnymichael, @donalleniii, @elliottnorris, @jackjerry, @jordanchiles, @kelseylynncook, @lonnieiiv and…Read More
Prime Day came at a fortuitous time this year for both Amazon and the millions of shoppers looking for bargains to offset the stress of historic inflation. And that’s led to the biggest shopping event in Amazon’s history, which ended at midnight today. According to the DTC giant, shoppers bought more than 300 million items…Read More
Some LGBTQ+ rights vary from state to state, and even in places where protections are comparatively robust, it can be complicated to navigate how these laws can help protect queer youth. Even when aware of the laws, harnessing them entails understanding legal jargon that isn’t always accessible. With the need to clarify potentially life-saving federal…Read More
