...the Content ID robot identifies matches. I never block anyone’s videos or stop them from using the music except for special cases, like videos from hate groups or unauthorized product advertisements. Once Content ID finds a video with my music in it I can decide if I want to just track the video, or “monetize” it, i.e. put Dorito ads on it. That doesn’t always seem appropriate but if I do decide to monetize a video, or if the uploader already had ads on it, Google gives the majority of the ad revenue to them and about a third to me for ...
What should I do about Youtube? | Zoë Keating
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...scriptions of tattoos, diagrams of hut layouts and larger schematic attempts to correlate all these with the tribe’s (and with humanity’s) greater myth structures – then, on the other side, the play. On one side, scientific, evidence-based research; on the other, epic art. Now let’s imagine taking a microscope and magnifying that paper, 10-, 100- or 1,000-fold, until the middle of it turns into a landscape: a damp, pulpy no man’s land of neither-nor. There, I’d suggest, rendered in three dimensions, like some rich digital map, is the space of contemporary literature.
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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I’m not sure what this image means, but it seems to undo the strict binary between data and storytelling McCarthy maintains throughout: at this level of the page, such generic distinctions are imperceptible.
...ing what we buy with who we know, and what they buy, or like, and with the other goods that are bought or liked by others who we don’t know but with whom we cohabit a shared buying or liking pattern. Far from being unwritable, the all-containing Great Report is being written around us, all the time – not by an anthronovelist but by a neutral and indifferent binary system whose sole aim is to perpetuate itself, an auto-alphaing and auto-omegating script. The surrealists might have pioneered a form of “automatic writing” – but that now seems quaint too. The issue has become one of automatic reading. The script, the Great Report, is here, there, everyw...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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...ius and vision of James Joyce, they’re probably working for Google, and if there isn’t, it doesn’t matter since the operations of that genius and vision are being developed and performed collectively by operators on the payroll of that company, or of one like it.
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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That last term – narrate – should bring this whole discussion back to the point it never really left. As for the world of anthropology, so for the world of literature. It is not just that people with degrees in English generally go to work for corporations (which of course they do); the point is that ...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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...ow, the distinction (so vital to classical anthropology) between “field” and “home” has imploded – a collapse that goes hand-in-hand with that of the academy as a seat of “pure”, unsullied knowledge. As any contemporary British academic will tell you, thanks to a double whammy of drastic cuts in public funding for and creeping privatisation of higher education, universities have become businesses – and not very good ones. Conversely, businesses, and particularly those at the leading edge of innovation, have taken over universities’ former role as society’s prime sites of knowledge generation. That the best engineers, mathematicians and visual designers should end up working in business is perhaps unsurprising – but a more eyebrow-raising statistic is that more than half of all anthropology...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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If these problems – essentially literary ones, it should once more be noted, problems of perceiving, describing, writing – plagued anthropology in its mid-century heyday, how much more so do they now? Since Lévi-Strauss’s era (and due, in large part, to the systems of equivalence he drew up that allow all cultures to be viewed through the same grid), the ethnographic viewfinder has shifted its gaz...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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...here 50 years before him felt the same thing, and that the one who’ll come 50 years later will wish he’d come 50 years earlier to see what he, Lévi-Strauss, failed to see right there in front of him. This leads him to write of a fatal “double bind” afflicting anthropology: the very “purity” it craves is no more than a state in which all frames of comprehension, of interpretation or analysis, are lacking; once these frames are brought to bear, the mystery that drew the anthropologist towards his subject evaporates. Meeting a tribe that doesn’t know what writing is, and seeing the tribe’s chief borrow his pen and scribble on a sheet in order to dupe his subjects into thinking that he is versed in this activity, L...
The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google | Books | The Guardian
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In contrast to the parity of the recent past, this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament has a clear front-runner: the undefeated Kentucky Wildcats. FiveThirtyEight’s March Madness Predictions give the Wildcats a 41 percent chance to win it all and finish 40-0. Kentucky’s chances are well ahead of a group of teams — Villanova, Arizona and Wisconsin — that have about a 10 percent chance each.
How FiveThirtyEight’s March Madness Bracket Works | FiveThirtyEight
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“There’s so much unstructured data out there that it’s beyond human control,” said Nick Goggans of audience analytics company Umbel. While big data technology certainly requires some right-brained engineers to keep the machines and algorithms properly tuned, Goggans says that the liberal arts play an equally important role in turning unstructured data into useful information. “Big data needs people who understand how to ask questions of things. When you ask questions, you simplify the equation and cut to the chase.”
Big data will find your next favorite band
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