Vote with your feet: Germany for example has a strong democratic culture, vibrant economy, (nearly) free education system, functioning public healthcare and - best of all - people speak German. To be fair, just with English you'll also get already pretty far.
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Who is interested in building the inverted echo chamber of the internet? Take a standard recommendation algorithm, apply it to news, let's say, and invert the similarity measure for the cluster the article belongs to.
In the best case, the end result would be a page filled with "relevant" (in the sense of read by people with a similar background) articles, but challenging your current position on an individual topic. Think having a "small government" believer receiving an article about the success of nordic social systems.
I, personally, would rather read such news than the "more of the same" you get with a standard similarity measure.
Thanks for contributing to such an awesome project.
A self-contained young lady's illustrated primer (thanks, Neal Stephenson) attempting to judge the current knowledge level of the reader with a set of preliminary questions and delivering progressively more advanced, always relevant content would be awesome.
Has anyone attempted to build it not starting at school level, but from ground up (i.e. colors, words, sentences, basic physics, maths, music), while adding content as the first participants progressed?
What would be required to grab your attention? Curated content? A better discussion platform? Or just plain more signal per noise?
One approach I'd like to see implemented is some monte carlo comment display algorithm. Assign every user a base point level (based on his contributions/selectable?), show every comment/post with score above this level, but comments below with decreasing probability.
This has the advantage of allowing new/initially low-ranked stuff to get picked up faster than a hard threshold, while keeping the noise at a level acceptable for the user.
Just in case it is not obvious: These rejection letters are fictional[1], created as collage of negative reviews Santini received. But it's hilarious to read, I agree.
Since the original site where Santini commented on it is gone, probably it's only a question of time until this document becomes internet "truth". Brave new world.
If you want to know why a car running android is a bad idea, take a ride in an 8 year old BMW/Mercedes with (back then) state of the art navigation system. While the car itself is probably still nice, the "smart" part just feels horribly outdated - because it is. The length of these two innovation cycles differs by a factor 3-5. For the same reason, a "smart" fridge running Android isn't, either.
If, on the other hand, you propose introducing a reasonably standardised protocol for interfacing your phone with the in-car audio, video and input systems (plus readouts from the internal sensors), I definitively agree. This allows you to update the "smart" bit every two years on contract, but you can use the controller and screen (with longer innovation cycles, even though they are still below the typical ttl of cars) integrated in the car.
Drop me a line in case you're interested, I'd be happy to help where I can. Same holds for companies.