And they're making things worse as we use less and less paper at the same time..... Geniuses

I don't know anything about how it works, but I assumed it was absorbed by the skin on your head not the actual hair.

I still doubt that putting vitamin whatever on your head everyday will actually make a difference

I know how to read them, but I still always read the top tweet first, then the original tweet, then the top tweet again....

I know, I'm dumb

In this rare case, I would totally suggest you read the article. It has the perfect amount of humor mixed with shocking facts (revealed via email evidence from the Google antitrust case) and it wraps it all up in a way that's easy to understand.

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it's trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it's totally possible that they determined they'd need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

And come in on your knees since the cameras only capture people that are standing

And in the days before tracking cookies, doing that didn't ruin all the ads you'll ever see again

The fines are part of their outgoing expenses, though, so at least some of that $99 in your example is going to pay these very fines

Can't wait to get my $1.53 check in the mail 3 years from now!

But...but...muh "discovery"

There's no way the model has access to that information, though.

Google's important product must have proper scoped secret management, not just environment variables or similar.

Oof, how did it end up going?