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A New Nothing Phone Drops On Amazon Prime Day?!

On this week’s episode of the Android Central Podcast, Shruti Shekar, Jerry Hildenbrand, Andrew Myrick, and Nick Sutrich discuss the new Nothing phone dropping on Amazon Prime Day, Carl Pei dismissing the idea of a Nothing foldable, the explosion of Threads & what it means for social media, Mark Lucovsky’s comments after resigning from Google, […]

Book: Unshackled: A Practical Guide For Highly-Skilled Immigrants To Thrive In The United States – Brad Feld

I recently wrote the Foreword for Unshackled, a new book co-authored by Soundarya Basubramani, a writer from India, and Sameer Khedekar, a veteran immigration lawyer. Unshackled breaks down how legal immigration works in America in a way that is friendly, accessible, and human. It’s filled with raw stories of high-skilled immigrants who walked unconventional paths […]

Displaced And Disillusioned On The Internet

Sometimes I think about all of the societal issues I cared about 10 years ago: privacy, government overreach, and platform accountability. More and more as I look at the technological landscape it feels like none of that care seems to have mattered. When I worked on the Societal Health team at Twitter I had a […]

Analog(ue) #215: Pull on That Thread – Relay FM

#215: Pull on That Thread July 16th, 2023 · 89 minutes Threads Vibe Check, Danny Ric returns, celebrating anniversaries, and avoiding reunions. This episode of Analog(ue) is sponsored by: Human Creator Alliance: Empowering creators to thrive in the age of AI. Get 20% off your annual subscription. ExpressVPN: High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service. Get […]

Leveraging Real-Time User Actions to Personalize Etsy Ads

Introduction Personalization is vital to connect our unique marketplace to the right buyer at the right time. Etsy has recently introduced a novel, general approach to personalizing ML models based on encoding and learning from short-term (one-hour) sequences of user actions through a reusable three-component deep learning module, the adSformer Diversifiable Personalization Module (ADPM). We […]

No Bad Ideas? : Throughline

Humans have always created. But historian Samuel W. Franklin argues that “creativity” didn’t become a social value until the Cold War. Today, we’re at another inflection point for humanity, technology, and national identity. The meaning of originality is blurring; there are legal disputes about what constitutes original art; and AI can write a song like […]