*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

I know how to read them, but I still always read the top tweet first, then the original tweet, then the top tweet again....

I know, I'm dumb

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it's trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it's totally possible that they determined they'd need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

They put their best high school interns on it! What more could they do!?

I was talking to some friends once on a Sunday and they were being a bit quiet so I asked what was up and they said they had the "Sunday Scaries." I had to inquire what the sunday scaries were and bashfully noted that I've never felt that before. Made me realize how much I love doing what I do!

And in the days before tracking cookies, doing that didn't ruin all the ads you'll ever see again

It's not, it just blocks others from tracking you, giving Google a stronger monopoly

I completely lost it when he started talking about how he'd bite.

Like he's trying to be a macho man and "do things the manly way" then he comes back with "but I'll bend the rules if it helps me"

Not to come to their defense, I don't like most of what they do, but when you have multiple billion users, every "small change" you make or feature you add is a significant investment in planning, building, and testing.

Sadly it's almost never the case where people say "oh, life is better for you! Cool!"

It sounds like the error message a dev shop makes up when the PM doesn't specify what the error message should be...

Cries in "let's outsource this, it should be cheaper and faster"

You're probably correct now, but back when Captcha's were introduced, machine vision was nowhere near as advanced as it is now

It's funny, but solving Captcha's probably led to the downfall of Captcha's