Author: Awais

What is a verified Twitter account?On X (formerly Twitter), verification is now primarily tied to a paid subscription, not the older system that verified accounts mainly based on public notoriety.A verified Twitter account displays a blue checkmark next to the account’s display name, showing that the Twitter account is connected to an active X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue) premium subscription and meets the platform’s basic eligibility requirements.Even though it’s a paid feature, to guarantee verification and maintain it, the account must meet several baseline conditions. In most cases, this includes:A complete profile with a profile photo and display nameActivity on…

Like many people, you’re worried about losing your job to AI. Where do your “old school” PPC skills fit as AI agents take over more of the work? Relax. It’s not that binary. The focus is shifting toward data and strategy. From the outside, it looks like media buying is being automated away. But let’s set the record straight: it isn’t. The role is shifting (again). I’ve been working in PPC for over 15 years, and there’s nothing to be afraid of. The real question is: are you riding the wave or being left behind? Let’s map the current PPC…

This is the attention economy. The politics of personality. Trump, Farage, Polanski, Mamdani. Hate them or love them, their ability to dominate the narrative and social media is winning out over traditional means. Trump’s particular approach is, of course, the most egregious. By saturating the market to the nth degree, it’s hard to even remember what happened last week. Let alone care about it. I think this is the problem facing more traditional media. Younger audiences have grown up with this as the norm. Fake news. A brutal job market. Housing so unaffordable that living in a shipping container is…

[Submitted on 6 Jun 2025 (v1), last revised 5 Mar 2026 (this version, v3)] Authors:Eugenie Lai, Gerardo Vitagliano, Ziyu Zhang, Om Chabra, Sivaprasad Sudhir, Anna Zeng, Anton A. Zabreyko, Chenning Li, Ferdi Kossmann, Jialin Ding, Jun Chen, Markos Markakis, Matthew Russo, Weiyang Wang, Ziniu Wu, Michael J. Cafarella, Lei Cao, Samuel Madden, Tim Kraska View a PDF of the paper titled KramaBench: A Benchmark for AI Systems on Data-to-Insight Pipelines over Data Lakes, by Eugenie Lai and 18 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Discovering insights from a real-world data lake potentially containing unclean, semi-structured, and unstructured data requires a…

If you’re not in the trenches of search every single day, it’s hard to know how seriously to take answer engine optimization strategy. There are two dominant camps right now: those who see generative AI as the most disruptive shift search has ever experienced, and those who argue that AEO (or GEO) is simply an extension of traditional SEO. 

yourself how real machine learning products actually run in major tech companies or departments? If yes, this article is for you 🙂 Before discussing scalability, please don’t hesitate to read my first article on the basics of machine learning in production. In this last article, I told you that I’ve spent 10 years working as an AI engineer in the industry. Early in my career, I learned that a model in a notebook is just a mathematical hypothesis. It only becomes useful when its output hits a user, a product, or generates money. I’ve already shown you what “Machine Learning…

On March 21, 2006, founder Jack Dorsey set up his “twttr”: Since then, some of the most important, world-changing moments have unfolded on Twitter in real-time for all to see, react to, and engage with.A lot has changed since those early days, including the platform’s name. When Elon Musk officially acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022, for $44 billion, he renamed it X. Almost four years later, people are still calling the platform Twitter, so, in this article, we’ll jump around between the two names or use both. just setting up my twttr— jack (@jack) March 21, 2006 If you’re new to…

John Mueller from Google said you can block a complete TLD, top-level-domain, using the link disavow tool. He said it is not something Google documents because “Given how big of a hammer it is, I don’t know if it’s something we should really suggest in the docs.” How does it work. All you need to do is use the syntax “domain:abc” in the disavow file. John posted this one Bluesky saying: “If you’re sure that it’s what you want to do, you can use “domain:abc” in the disavow file. Keep in mind that you can’t carve out specific domains if…

Google’s John Mueller casually mentioned the other day that it’s possible to disavow entire top level domains (TLDs) like .xyz which can come in handy if spammers are consistently using a specific TLD and there are no good sites that link from it. Mueller called it a big hammer and cautioned about using it. .XYZ TLD Spam Someone on Bluesky asked a question about a client that was receiving a lot of strange links from the .XYZ domain and Google’s Mueller encouraged the person to go ahead and upload a disavow file if it makes them feel better about the…

[Submitted on 26 Feb 2026 (v1), last revised 6 Mar 2026 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Exploratory Memory-Augmented LLM Agent via Hybrid On- and Off-Policy Optimization, by Zeyuan Liu and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Exploration remains the key bottleneck for large language model agents trained with reinforcement learning. While prior methods exploit pretrained knowledge, they fail in environments requiring the discovery of novel states. We propose Exploratory Memory-Augmented On- and Off-Policy Optimization (EMPO$^2$), a hybrid RL framework that leverages memory for exploration and combines on- and off-policy updates to make LLMs perform…