Interesting Links for 19-10-2023
Oct. 19th, 2023 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 1. How Do Musicians Make Money? (And how much?)
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- 2. Todd Klein on how comics lettering was done with pens
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- 3. I've switched from Google search to Kagi. This is why.
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- 4. Public corruption prosecutions rise where nonprofit news outlets flourish
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- 5. "I'm a sociopath who feels no remorse - it's just how my brain is wired"
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- 6. Ruling could transform rape cases in Scottish courts
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- 7. New pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (mine hasn't recovered fully for nearly 18 months)
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Date: 2023-10-20 05:16 pm (UTC)On Kagi (#3) -- oh, yeah. I've not only switched to Kagi as my default search engine (which pretty much always gives me better results than Google), I'm using Orion as my browser much of the time (I'm typing this there), and wound up investing a modest amount of money in the company. It's been a long time since I've seen a business plan that just plain makes sense, for a company that I actually like.
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Date: 2023-10-20 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-20 05:44 pm (UTC)So far, it seems to me like they're using LLMs more or less appropriately -- anything in particular you dislike?