When online sports betting was legalized in my state, I was shocked at how aggressive the initial advertising campaign was. There were at least a dozen different sites offering hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of credit with sign up bonus. I distinctly remember sports betting companies offering a variety of "free money" opportunities to onboard new users to their respective platforms. I have never participated in sports betting and have no interest in it, but considering big players in the industry were throwing away buckets of cash in customer acquisition in a way I have never seen before, I can't imagine just how much money they make from their user base once they get hooked.
I often wonder if we will ever get to the point where human generated content has a special luster to it like locally grown food. When you go to the farmers market and purchase fruits and vegetables grown locally at a premium price, most people are not only paying for the quality, but the fact that they are supporting a local business instead of a large scale factory farm. In a world where generative AI can outpace humans making content, buying custom human made artwork could potentially be similar to going to the farmers market.
Out of curiosity, was the structure of the tree created based on letter frequencies similar to trees within a Huffman Encoder? If so, shouldn't O, I, and S be higher up the tree?
One of the things I enjoy is doing resume reviews for individuals who are actively trying to get out of difficult situations (recovering addicts, ex convicts, etc) and improve their lives. Usually most of them actually have really solid resumes with professional experience, they just fell on some hard times and ended up in a bad place. It incredibly fulfilling to me as you can easily see the impact you make on others lives. Usually you can find opportunities like this at hard reduction centers.