9 Best Articles in 2021
Farnam Street
How Filter Bubbles Distort Reality: Everything You Need to Know
Farnam Street
~14 min read · From 2017 · Filter Bubbles exist everywhere. From Google searches to information flow in organizations. Here's everything you need to know about this mental model.
CSS-Tricks
An Illustrated (and Musical) Guide to Map, Reduce, and Filter Array Methods
CSS-Tricks
5 min read · From 2019 · Map, reduce, and filter are three very useful array methods in JavaScript that give developers a ton of power in a short amount of space. Let’s jump right
bzarg.com
How a Kalman filter works, in pictures
bzarg.com
From 2015 · I have to tell you about the Kalman filter, because what it does is pretty damn amazing. Surprisingly few software engineers and scientists seem to know about it, and that makes me sad because it is…
spreadprivacy.com
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is influencing what you click
spreadprivacy.com
8 min read · From 2018 · Does Google show you different search results based on your personal info, even when signed out and in so-called "incognito" mode? We ran a study to find out.
Reuters Institute
The truth behind filter bubbles: Bursting some myths
Reuters Institute
10 min read · 2020-01-25 · Richard Fletcher discusses the evidence behind filter bubbles and whether we should be concerned about them
The Guardian
Why can’t we agree on what’s true anymore?
The Guardian
~17 min read · From 2019 · The long read: It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting…
The Lancet
Pump, pipes, and filter: do SGLT2 inhibitors cover it all?
The Lancet
20+ min read · From 2018 · Concerns about the growing burden of diabetes are mounting.1 Temporal analyses suggest
that cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes persists and, if anything, is widening
for fatal outcomes.2 The need for interventions to prevent diabetes-related complications
is clear.
WIRED
Eli Pariser Predicted the Future. Now He Can’t Escape It.
WIRED
~11 min read · From 2017 · Six years after the Upworthy cofounder coined the term “filter bubble,” things are much worse.
TED Talks
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
TED Talks
From 2016 · As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
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Chrome Developers
Building a multi-select component
Chrome Developers
~12 min read · Oct 13th · A foundational overview of how to build a responsive, adaptive, and accessible, multiselect component for sort and filter user experiences.
Codrops
Slideshow with Filter Reveal Effect
Codrops
1 min read · Nov 17th · A slideshow page layout with a filter enhanced navigation effect on the images.
freeCodeCamp.org
How to Build a Responsive Form with Filter Functionality Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
freeCodeCamp.org
4 min read · Oct 14th · Most sites that display a list of data in a table typically have some kind of filter functionality implemented. This helps the user filter relevant items based on the text they type into the form…
HuffPost
Rudy Giuliani Is Scaring The Crap Out Of People With His Bizarre Video Filter
HuffPost
2 min read · Oct 20th · The Trump sidekick recorded a political attack ad while using an "Abe Lincoln" filter and it was as weird as it sounds.
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Moz
Stop Ghost Spam in Google Analytics with One Filter
Moz
From 2015 · Don't be distracted by web spam. A simple, easy to use filter could remove the majority of your worries surrounding spam.
VentureBeat
How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls
VentureBeat
9 min read · 2020-04-09 · Microsoft Teams group program manager Robert Aichner explains how real-time noise suppression will use AI to filter out background noise like typing.
CSS-Tricks
The backdrop-filter CSS property
CSS-Tricks
4 min read · From 2018 · I had never heard of the backdrop-filter property until yesterday, but after a couple of hours messing around with it I’m positive that it’s nothing more than magic. This is because it adds filters (like changing the hue, contrast or blur) of the background of an element without changing the text or other elements
Gizmodo
YouTube’s Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique—And It’s Getting Worse
Gizmodo
10 min read · 2020-12-22 · Video creators' legal content is being censored by YouTube’s copyright filter. And thanks to a new proposed law by Sen. Thom Tillis, Brewis’ experience could become virtually everyone’s.
MIT Technology Review
Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create
MIT Technology Review
~11 min read · From 2018 · People want to surround themselves with like-minded peers with similar interests and values. On social media, algorithms pick up on people’s preferences and show more and more of the same perspective, thus reinforcing existing beliefs. The social divide that these “filter bubbles” foster makes it more and more difficult for people with divergent views to relate – even offline. However, if social media were the main culprit, diversifying social media feeds could cure society’s polarization. Journalist Adam Piore, writing for the MIT Technology Review, explains why the filter bubble isn’t simply a social media phenomenon. getAbstract recommends this insightful read to anyone interested in finding out why technical solutions alone can’t pop the filter
bubble.
Moz
How to Determine if a Page Is "Low Quality" in Google's Eyes : Whiteboard Friday
Moz
From 2017 · What makes a page high or low quality? How can you easily filter pages on your site to determine which pages are of high importance, which need work, and which are just plain bad? Check out the…
gameuidatabase.com
Game UI Database
gameuidatabase.com
20+ min read · 2020-12-05 · A comprehensive screenshot reference Tool for game interface designers. Explore over 320 games and 11,000 individual images, and filter by screen type, material, layout, texture, shapes, patterns, genre and more!
Guardian US
Bursting the Facebook bubble: we asked voters on the left and right to swap feeds
Guardian US
9 min read · From 2016 · Social media has made it easy to live in filter bubbles, sheltered from opposing viewpoints. So what happens when liberals and conservatives trade realities?
Eugene Wei
American Idle
Eugene Wei
Feb 22nd · TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and…
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