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Rob Barry

@robbarry.bsky.social

Data and words at The Wall Street Journal. Hello fellow kids!

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Rob Barry@robbarry.bsky.social · last yr.

Imagine an ant walking on a balloon. But it's actually a 768-dimensional manifold whose axes represent learned semantic features, and the ant is really a vector encoding meaning through its distributed position across all these latent dimensions. I mean, so cool, right?

John West@johnwest.bsky.social · last yr.

I talked a little bit about how the Journal used artificial intelligence in our look at Elon Musk's Twitter transformation. Shout out to my folks: "West says he finds it difficult to clarify the type of AI he uses in his work, even when explaining it to his own parents."

Rob Barry@robbarry.bsky.social · last yr.

Representatives of President Trump’s family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter www.wsj.com/finance/curr... by @ceostroff.bsky.social et al

Exclusive | Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty Plea

The discussions for a stake in Binance’s U.S. arm come as founder Changpeng Zhao has pushed for the administration to pardon him for his own 2023 guilty plea.

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Rob Barry@robbarry.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's Russia's largest campaign of internal repression since Stalin. While in prison, Evan Gershkovich never stopped reporting. One discovery? A secretive unit called DKRO turned dating apps into honeypot operations, targeting Americans with security clearances. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

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John West@johnwest.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've read ~350 books since I started keeping track in 2020. I tagged every one in my own weird tagging style. I'm starting my yearly project of visualizing my reading life (though I'm not sure why I do it). Here's a rough cut, which pulls together books with similar tags, authors, and publishers.

A chart showing a clusters of books I read.
Caitlin Ostroff@ceostroff.bsky.social · 2y ago

The MAGA surrogate and powerful adviser to the president-elect is joining venture-capital firm 1789 to invest in companies espousing conservative values, bringing new attention to a financial movement that hasn’t taken off My latest w/Peter Rudegeair and Alex Leary www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Donald Trump Jr. Goes All-In on the Anti-Woke Economy

The MAGA surrogate and powerful adviser to the president-elect is joining venture-capital firm 1789 to invest in companies espousing conservative values, bringing new attention to a financial movement...

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