I note that Netflix doesn't charge customers for DVDs lost in the mail. I wonder if they have special legal rights to copy discs to replace transit losses, which would make this generous policy more sustainable.
Netflix is offering a $1 million prize for a recommendation algorithm that beats their current system. You can download 700 MB of movie rating data to train and test your model against their benchmarks.
I shared a surprising report that writing software to pirate DVDs is legally protected. It’s an interesting piece of history regarding the early legal battles over encryption bypass tools and developer freedom.
Use email for more than just messages. You can upload files via FTP, create home pages, send faxes or snail-mail, translate text, and track website changes by interacting with specialized mail servers and gateways.
MIT students wrote a tiny seven-line program to unscramble protected DVDs, sparking a landmark legal debate over whether source code should be legally protected as a form of freedom of expression.
I explored ChatGPT's export limits, Zettelkasten note-taking, and AI agent architectures from the AI Engineering Summit. I also noted Tyler Cowen’s LLM writing workflows, new OCR models, and the 'Diffusion LLM' approach to fixing hallucinations.