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In 2021, the Boston Globe editorial board asked: “♦️Who owns the president?♦️”
It’s a reasonable question. We didn’t know the answer then. We still don’t.
Three years later, we have more than a half-billion reasons to ask that question.
Were he to be re-elected, his legal #debts would be a #national

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08669 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Leveraging Recommender Systems to Reduce Content Gaps on Peer Production Platforms
Peer production platforms like Wikipedia commonly suffer from content gaps. Prior research suggests recommender systems can help solve this problem, by guiding editors towards underrepresented topics. However, it remains unclear whether this approach would result in less relevant recommendations, leading to reduced overall engagement with recommended items. To answer this question, we first conducted offline analyses (Study 1) on SuggestBot, a task-routing recommender system for Wikipedia, then…

Google Gemini (advanced) is so censored and careful that it doesn’t dare to answer the question how the EU should prepare for a Trump presidency. It illustrates the problem of replacing search with LLMs, the companies become editors of information. Interestingly ChatGPT gives a fine answer, https://

ChatGPT
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

Our readers’ questions about the war, answered. Vol. 5: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/our-readers-questions.html

But! But! But the polls!
There are just enough declarative answers to softball questions to make this seem legitimate, but this is a farce, an unfunny bit that didn’t get beyond SNL table reads, which definitely lands high for Semafor and makes the right offices of the Times feel vindicated.
From: @…

John Avlon targets New York Republicans in US House campaign: ‘They’re scared’
He has distanced himself from No Labels, the group he co-founded in 2010, left a decade ago and now accuses of a “reckless gamble with democracy” in its flirtation with a presidential campaign.
But the political centre is still where he wants to be, “particularly in swing districts [like NY-01] as a matter of practicality but I think also on principle.
The race is in New York’s first congressio…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08669 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Leveraging Recommender Systems to Reduce Content Gaps on Peer Production Platforms
Peer production platforms like Wikipedia commonly suffer from content gaps. Prior research suggests recommender systems can help solve this problem, by guiding editors towards underrepresented topics. However, it remains unclear whether this approach would result in less relevant recommendations, leading to reduced overall engagement with recommended items. To answer this question, we first conducted offline analyses (Study 1) on SuggestBot, a task-routing recommender system for Wikipedia, then…