Rob Barry

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

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

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

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

wsj.comExclusive | Trump Family Has Held Deal Talks With Binance Following Crypto Exchange’s Guilty PleaThe 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.
Rob Barry
@robbarry.bsky.social

Reupping this new WSJ data journo job for the crew headed to #NICAR25. If you're interested or want to learn more, feel free to hit me up. I'll be there all week!

Rob Barry@robbarry.bsky.social

Want to work with the most amazing data team in journalism? We're hiring (again)! wsj.jobs/new-york-ny/...

wsj.jobswsj.jobsDow Jones breaks stories, influences ideas, advances business intelligence and cultural interest, exposes the events that turn markets, the breakthroughs that transform art and drives invention.
Rob Barry
@robbarry.bsky.social

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...

wsj.comTracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and BeyondThe 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

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.

Rob Barry
@robbarry.bsky.social

and the reviews are in! 'The Last Broadcast's "Disconnect to Reconnect" fumbles through cyber-dystopian anxieties with the grace of your parents discovering TikTok. Despite moments of genuine intimacy, most of these digital dirges feel like a ChatGPT fever dream about the robot apocalypse. (6.8)'

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Caitlin Ostroff
@ceostroff.bsky.social

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...

wsj.comDonald Trump Jr. Goes All-In on the Anti-Woke EconomyThe 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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