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In the ongoing civil war between Reddit and its own users, the widespread two-day subreddit shutdown protest has come and gone. While some communities have pledged to keep the protest going indefinitely, some of the largest channels have given in while Reddit CEO Steve Huffman throws gas on a smoldering fire.In April, Reddit announced that it would be charging companies for access to its application programming interface (API), following the playbook that Twitter launched when CEO Elon Musk realized he wasn’t making…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company’s plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, calling them “landed gentry” and saying they weren’t considering the desires of their communities.Reddit Knowingly Downvoting Self | Future TechAfter nearly a week of chaos marked by a moderator-led blackout, which made subreddits private and barred the public from accessing them, Huffman went on a media blitz…

Despite assurances from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in an internal memo this week, who assured employees that “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass,” the chaos at the social media site has not subsided, and now it seems like could go on for the long haul. Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIMinutes after The Verge published a leaked memo Huffman sent to Reddit employees on Tuesday evening, in which the CEO reportedly dug in his heels and stated he would not budge on planned changes to…

Reddit is in for a rude awakening, just ask some of its most popular subreddits. To protest Reddit’s recent plan to charge for access to its API, some of the platform’s biggest communities will be going dark for at least two days.In April, Reddit announced that it would be charging companies for access to its application programming interface (API), much the way Twitter opted to when Elon Musk realized he wasn’t making enoughmoney. While Reddit said that the decision was to keep companies like Google and OpenAI from…

Our Data team is responsible for crunching, reporting, and serving data. The team also does data integrations with other systems and creates machine and deep learning models.With this post, we intend to share our favorite tools, which are proven to run with thousands of millions of pieces of data. Scaling processes in real-world scenarios is a hot topic among new people coming to data science.    R or Python?Well... both!  R is a GNU project, thought of as a statistical data language. It was originally…

The use of machine learning in the medical industry has gained significant traction in recent years thanks to its ability to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, and streamline clinical workflows. While there are several programming languages available for machine learning, Python and R are the two most popular languages in the medical industry. This article discusses the use of Python and R in machine learning in the medical industry and argues why Python is considered the superior language in this field. Python in…

When most people think of Reddit, they don’t usually think of physical objects. That’s why the project from r/analog was so interesting to me. It was Reddit, which is synonymous with the internet, in physical form.r/analog used its Community Funds money to create a zine featuring the film photography created by its members. The 200-plus page book showcases member photos of nature, landscapes, architecture, buildings, and more. In an interesting crossover between the online and offline, some photos identify their…

Reddit’s Recap 2022 video was a strange mixture of images, including gyrating bananas and heartening messages of conquering cancer.Screenshot: RedditOn Thursday, Reddit revealed what the biggest trending topics and subreddits were for 2022, and if you guessed that it was a forum for internet haranguing, then you would be correct—but also—you should probably take a break from the internet for a few days. As if advice columns weren’t popular enough for all the vicarious shade digital users get to throw at people’s life…

Some of the members on Reddit aren’t happy with Taco Bell. The website’s avid Taco Bell fandom is vocalizing its discontent over the restaurant’s new ad campaign featuring Pete Davidson, an outrage that is spilling out onto other parts of the site.I’m human. Sometimes I sing a little too loud in the show, sometimes I forget to empty the dishwasher, and sometimes I eat too much Taco Bell. I am absolutely a fan of the “Mexican” fast food joint, and so too is its legion of devoted Reddit users over at r/LivingMas, which is a…

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