from my link log —
Implementing the transcendental functions in Ivy.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/implementing-transcendental-functions.html
saved 2026-01-26
If only I had known this earlier, I might have been more enthusiastic about GenAI. 🫣
"Microsoft is paying influencers to say Copilot isn’t awful garbage that makes work miserable by, e.g., “posting an Instagram video about fun things to do with Microsoft Copilot.” [CNBC]
Microsoft and Google are spending $400,000–$600,000 per influencer."
The UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/25/uk-government-spending-social-media-infl…
inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …
Russia's influence in the Middle East is crumbling! Putin urgently surrenders key base in Syria: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/russias-influence-in-the-middle.html
BREAKING: 1 person is in critical condition after being shot by Border Patrol in Arizona at around 7:30am, Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/person-shot-border-patrol-involved-arizona-rcna256137
Un cibercriminal manipula al chatbot Claude para infiltrarse en agencias del gobierno mexicano
https://www.welivesecurity.com/es/cibercrimen/chatbot-claude-hackeo-gobierno-mexico/?utm_source=mastodon&ut…
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Memeorandum data: WaPo's presence on the news aggregator plunged since a peak in Trump's first term, while the NYT recovered from a drop to grow in his second (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-sad-and-self-inflicted-decline
Zelensky sought China’s involvement in Russia talks, but Beijing backs Moscow, diplomat says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/zelensky-sought-chinas-involvement-in.html