Cyprus Profile has published Cyprus Country Report 2017. It’s a nice overview of the state of the economy in the country, with advertising, interviews and analytics covering the major business sectors.
Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
The Guardian is covering a 100+ internal training manuals, spreadsheets, and flowcharts that they’ve seen that Facebook has for training their editorial / censorship staff.
There’s plenty to learn from and think about. Â Once again, it’s shown how complex modern communications and discussions are, and how tricky it is to separate violent and abusive content from careless comments. Â Here’s a thought provoking example:
Summer is coming
HAProxy and Nginx abuse and rate limiting
My brother wrote a follow-up – HAProxy abuse filtering and rate limiting – to his previous post –Â Nginx rate limit by user agent (control bots). Â This is just a tip of the iceberg that we are working with at the office, but it’s pretty cool.
Hopefully, soon enough our Ansible playbooks will be up to date and shareable…
Smart Reply in Gmail
Google Blog announces that Smart Reply feature is coming to Gmail on both Android and iOS. Â It has been introduced earlier in other products like Google Inbox and Allo, and is apparently so useful that about 12% of all replies in those applications are done with the help of Smart Reply.
There’s also a link to the Google Research Blog article which has more details on the technology behind (machine learning, artificial intelligence, native language processing, and all the usual suspects).
