Whether it works is irrelevant. It's 1.0. Just put it in a box on a shelf for 20 years and then sell it for 100x what was originally paid.

Is anyone else confused about the intrinsic conflict of interest behind centralized CAPTCHAs that effectively train an AI to defeat all CAPTCHAs?

The first metric was not partisanship, it was credibility -- either one believes there is such a thing as an objectively good decision, or not. If so, then one believes it's possible to acquire information that is reliable enough to establish probabilistic outcomes that can then be used as a basis for risk management. If no, then, well it's just the wild west and somebody's gut feeling is the only rational basis for decision making. I'm not ready to give up on objectivity just yet simply because I may not like the researchers enough to invite them over for dinner.

Fair point -- assuming this is not an intractable problem, we could say that, from a credibility standpoint we have a range with some gray-area in the middle. On one extreme is quantitative academic research published in an authoritative journal. On the other are qualitative opinion pieces. The heuristic here should assign a score that weights the former and discards the latter.

Partisanship could simply be based on a reputational score determined via periodic polling, sentiment analysis, etc.

Except we're not talking about suppressing or even altering content, merely tagging it with additional metadata that can help the reader more swiftly make a more informed decision on the accuracy of the material. Between family, friends and acquaintances, this type of service would have saved me dozens of hours over the past decade looking up and forwarding Snopes' research on deceptive content. FWIW, in every case the recipient of that info appreciated the clarification.

To be fair, it's important that the metadata itself point to a credible non-partisan source. Tagging an alt-right tweet with a link to CNN just makes Twitter look clueless if not ridiculous, even if the CNN content is verifiably sourced.

The world's first 9-1-1 response to an AI-based disturbance.

The Eggcyte is immune to discovery, hacking and theft.

The Twelve Factor App provides a more thorough treatment of elastic systems design, but generally agrees with the thesis of this document. Perhaps if that document were interactive in some way (open to signature, modification, comment, DVCS citation, etc.), we might have a better measure of its influence in the real world.

Congratulations, your writing instantly caused me to recollect a theorem that I haven't thought about in over 15 years: "The Earth has 4 days in one 24 hr cycle". Check it out, you might appreciate this work and learn a thing or two about effective argumentation style. #timecube

As a Prime member, for every non-prime eligible item I find, I look for a Prime eligible counterpart. The price for the counterpart is _always_ about $3-5 more expensive, usually by the same amount as the quoted shipping price on the non-Prime eligible item. So what we are getting here is the 2-day upgrade for free, not the entire cost of shipping. Most of the time, 2-day vs. 4-day shipping makes no difference to me.

We do occasionally stream Prime content, but the vast majority of titles on Prime are also on Netflix. If I could cancel my Netflix subscription and replace with Prime, the $120 pricepoint might not look so steep, but alas, it often seems Amazon's library is only about 25% the size of Netflix, so that's not an option.

So as it stands, I feel I am not really getting $80 in value from Prime as it stands. $120 with no improvement to the service is out of the question. I like the idea of a premium Amazon service, it just needs to actually _be_ premium.

Exactly. Remember the opportunity cost for BG to stop and pick up a $100 bill on the sidewalk (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/us/forum-in-new-york-diary-is-it-worth-bending-to-pick-up-just-100.html). This entire appearance on this show was likely a money-losing endeavor. Dragging it out would not only have cost more in terms of dollars but likely prestige if the munificent captain-of-industry began to show any sort of optimism or frustration in the fated match.

My kids enjoyed it quite a bit, watching it several times and will certainly want to see the 'upgraded' edition. What more do can you ask for in an animated short?

Three more reasons for Jeff to buy any newspaper:

  - Augment the Prime program with new premium content.
  - New (free or free w/Prime) content for Kindle
  - Show NYT and WSJ how to properly model a digital subscription program as they have clearly not yet figured out just how overpriced they are for a nearly zero-overhead distribution medium.