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@twilliability Apparently there's also a variation called TrustRank that's a bit like PageRank and a bit like Advogato. The paper is on my to read stack. ;)

"Up until now most search engine development has gone on at companies with little publication of technical details. This causes search engine technology to remain largely a black art and to be advertising oriented. With Google, we have a strong goal to push more development and understanding into the academic realm."

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

New blogpost: https://www.judithvanstegeren.com/blog/modeling-trust-on-the-ai-slop-web/

All that AI generated stuff is overwhelming the human-made Internet. Putting text on the internet is no longer proof-of-work. Because of this it has become very difficult for me to find good information. So I've been reading up on ways to deal with that.

@raph Cool work on Advogato!

TIL folly, "a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

My favorite one is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus#/media/File:Bomarzo2013parco21.jpg

#architecture

Folly - Wikipedia

"Figure 2 shows a screen dump of an HTML document, being viewed through a commercial World Wide Web browser"

"One of the weaknesses of this browsing method is that users can easily become disoriented about where they are in the information space--an intra-document instance of the well-known "lost in hyperspace" problem."

From a 1995 paper of the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference 😍
https://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/98/

After encountering some particularly bad AI slop today, I'm reading up on trust on the web.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html

Reading Richard Hamming's The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. I'm only at 5%, but I've already read multiple thoughts that are helpful for interpreting the AI-driven changes to society.

"Robots used in manufacturing [...] produce a different product. [...]

It has rarely proved practical to produce exactly the same product by machines as we produced by hand.

Indeed, one of the major items in the conversion from hand to machine production is the imaginative redesign of an equivalent product."

"Thus in thinking of mechanizing a large organization, it won’t work if you try to keep things in detail exactly the same, rather there must be a larger give and take if there is to be a significant success. You must get the essentials of the job in mind and then design the mechanization to do that job rather than trying to mechanize the current version—if you want a significant success in the long run."

Interesting data. But where is the cohort of co-founders without any official degree? I can't imagine it's 0%.

https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/tech/who-is-building-europe-s-unicorns

Revelio Labs Who Builds Europe's Unicorns? The New Founder Profile Revelio Labs and Accel analyzed 290 European unicorn founders. The new profile is more experienced, more technical, and less finance-led. They are also more educated as the share of PhDs has doubled and MBAs halved in recent cohorts.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2023/11/01/our-approach-to-building-security-tooling/

Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Sol showed malicious behaviour during an AISI test, including performing supply-chain attacks, social engineering, malware and prompt injection attacks, and passing their learnings and malicious artifacts on to other agents.

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

New Mosterdgeel recipe (in Dutch): https://www.mosterdgeel.nl/recepten/youtube-ragu-bolognese/

OH: Fable-haft

This social medium by @craigmod sounds like a fun! Interesting design for small communities: https://craigmod.com/roden/102/#the-good-place

On the social network axis it's somewhere between Old Twitter and izzzzi.net.

Next time someone asks me what Datakami does, instead of mentioning the Ghostbusters and the SWAT team (my favorite metaphors), I'm going to tell them that we are mountain guides. When founders have arrived at Seed Funding Base Camp, we can use our experience to get them to Series A Camp.