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Citizen Journalism on Twitter: A New Age

The Rabbit Hole • 314 implied HN points • 19 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Verification Monetization Digital Transformation
  1. Twitter is empowering Citizen Journalists with features like Community Notes, Verification, and Creator Monetization.
  2. Trust in traditional media has declined, creating a space for Citizen Journalism to thrive on social media platforms like Twitter.
  3. Citizen Journalism on Twitter can democratize fact-checking, offer financial opportunities through monetization, and inspire a new generation of truth-seekers.

A Guide on Semiconductor Development

Irrational Analysis • 239 implied HN points • 02 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Semiconductors Design Verification Manufacturing Packaging
  1. Semiconductor development involves a complex process that can take 2-4 years to create a leading-edge chip, starting from digital design to post-silicon validation.
  2. Timing closure is a crucial step in the design process, ensuring that the delays of various circuit elements are aligned with reference clocks to optimize chip performance.
  3. Pre-silicon verification is essential before tape-out to catch physical design flaws that might impact the functionality and performance of the chip.

120 | Heavy Metal Takeaways | King Canute in Food Safety | $5m Food 'Fraud' |

The Rotten Apple • 241 implied HN points • 08 Jan 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Food Safety Food Fraud Verification Validation
  1. Contaminated cinnamon had lead levels over 2000 times the safe limit, prompting food fraud vulnerability assessment recommendations
  2. Ecuadorian cinnamon supply chain was affected by contamination, possibly due to adulteration with lead chromate
  3. Understanding verification vs validation in food safety: Check procedures vs. ensuring procedures deliver the required results

A Benchmark for Verifying Chain-Of-Thought

Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots • 19 implied HN points • 07 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Data Research Machine Learning Verification
  1. A new dataset called REVEAL helps check if reasoning used in answers is correct or logical. It assesses whether each part of the reasoning leads to the final answer.
  2. REVEAL focuses on verifying claims based on provided evidence. It does not check how the evidence was found, but how well the reasoning uses it.
  3. Creating detailed datasets like REVEAL is complex and time-consuming. It requires skilled annotators to carefully evaluate the logic and relevance in each reasoning step.
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Checked Out

Some Unpleasant Arithmetic • 5 implied HN points • 25 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Verification Celebrities Engagement Communication
  1. Twitter drama over blue check verification sparked controversies among celebrities and users.
  2. Celebrities face trade-offs between engaging with a large audience and avoiding risks to their reputation on social media platforms.
  3. Challenges arise when the system allows anyone to be verified, potentially mixing important figures with undesirable individuals.

Food fraud prevention strategies: Building an effective verification ecosystem (Manning, et. al. (2024) - A Review

The Rotten Apple • 0 implied HN points • 11 Nov 24
🍲 Food & Drink Food Safety Fraud prevention Verification Research Consulting
  1. Food fraud is a big problem, and understanding the latest research can help businesses protect themselves better. Keeping updated with new methods to prevent fraud is important for food safety professionals.
  2. Creating a strong verification ecosystem is key to preventing food fraud. This means having reliable checks and balances in place to ensure the integrity of food products.
  3. The research emphasizes practical strategies to combat food fraud. Using these strategies can make a real difference in how businesses manage food safety and trust.

The Importance of Verification

Embracing Enigmas • 0 implied HN points • 09 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Verification AI Systems Automation
  1. Automating processes requires trust and relinquishing some direct control.
  2. Machine learning verification involves creation-time and post-deployment steps for ensuring model performance and reliability.
  3. Artificial intelligence must undergo fact verification, coherency, consistency, and quality assessment to ensure reliable outputs.

Seldom Considered CIAM Attack Vectors

ciamweekly • 0 implied HN points • 12 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Security Authentication Passwords Verification
  1. Implement email verification in CIAM systems to connect new accounts to valid email owners, reducing account takeovers and bot attacks.
  2. When changing login identifiers in CIAM systems, re-verification is crucial to prevent unauthorized access and alert users of potential attacks.
  3. Account recovery in CIAM systems should not be sent to unverified accounts and should implement additional security measures like session invalidation and multi-factor authentication.

That Fake AI Generated Photo and the Stock Market

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 23 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Misinformation Social media Verification Market Reaction
  1. Fake AI-generated images caused a brief dip in the stock market, but the market quickly recovered, showing resilience to misinformation.
  2. The incident highlighted the importance of verifying information before reacting, leading to a discussion on the role of trusted sources in combating misinformation.
  3. The removal of artisanal verification on Twitter raised concerns about the impact on reliable information sources, emphasizing the need for trusted signals in a fast-paced digital world.

Tropes and evidence

The End(s) of Argument • 0 implied HN points • 03 Jul 23
🚌 Education Research Evidence Interpretation Critical Thinking Verification
  1. Tropes are narrative devices used in storytelling, which help people quickly interpret events based on surface similarities to past experiences.
  2. Tropes can sometimes lead to misinterpretations of evidence, influencing how people categorize information.
  3. Tropes serve as powerful interpretative shortcuts, but they can cause individuals to see connections or meanings that may not actually be present.