Tag: attention economy
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The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet more ›
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An interactive visualization tool showing you how transformer models work in large language models (LLM) like GPT. https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/sdfRpyI We’ve never had more wealth, more data, or more ways to be entertained. So why doesn’t it feel like progress? Sean’s guest today is Brad DeLong, an economic… more ›
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Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internets-new-favorite-philosopher more ›
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On a subway train not long ago, I had the familiar, unsettling experience of standing behind a fellow-passenger and watching everything that she was doing on her phone. It was… more ›
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One Sunday morning last month, several dozen American soccer fans gathered inside a Brooklyn bar to cheer on a middling, minor league club from Denmark. Many arrived wearing the team’s… more ›
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Almost 20 years ago, Chris Anderson published The Long Tail, which accurately predicted that the Internet would fragment attention and consumption would shift into the “tail.” But Top Gun: Maverick… more ›
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This could actually be good news for streaming services, which for the past two years have been pouring money into podcasts, which cost them less. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9500546/streaming-music-growth-stalled-factors-attention-economy/ more ›