Testing the TikTok algorithm

The Wall Street Journal tested out the TikTok algorithm with bots to see how quickly the app converged towards a user’s pre-specified interests. As viewing time of videos as the main signal, and to nobody’s surprise (I think), it only took a couple of hours for TikTok...

Noah Kalina’s averaged face over 7,777 days

Noah Kalina has been taking a picture of himself every day since January 11, 2000. He posted time-lapse videos in 2007, 2012, and 2020. Last year was the 20th of the project. Usually Kalina’s videos are a straight up time-lapse using every photo. But in this...
Summer Reading List

Summer Reading List

Don’t miss out on the books on this list! Remember those summer reading lists in grade school? The ones that teachers would pass out on the last day of school, when everyone thought their work was over. I (Antonia) would pretend to groan like the other students,...
Edward Snowden. Traitor or Hero?

Edward Snowden. Traitor or Hero?

Traitor or hero? If you follow along with the party line, i.e., the gov’t then you would believe Edward is a traitor. However, if you delve deep into his life and story then you’ll realize he is a HERO. He brought light to the dark places in our...
Learn to Code for FREE

Learn to Code for FREE

You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars to learn to code, you can learn to code for FREE at freeCodeCamp. This site is a proven path to your first software developer job and according to the website, more than 40,000 people have gotten developer jobs after...
FREE Web Development Education

FREE Web Development Education

It does seem too good to be true, doesn’t it? A quality FREE web development education, there has to be a catch, but there isn’t a catch. Even if you just need to brush up on the latest tools/trends in the web development industry this is a great site....