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I'm interpreting that the moment when Yahoo started falling apart was when they fired their whole vowpal wabbit team. If you can't value the state-of-the-art r
by crackpotbaker 11y ago
I'm interpreting that the moment when Yahoo started falling apart was when they fired their whole vowpal wabbit team.
If you can't value the state-of-the-art research being done in your labs, then you don't really value a thing.
- appleflaxen 11y ago> If you can't value the state-of-the-art research being done in your labs, then you don't really value a thing. that's a bit simplistic. vowpal wabbit is cool, but if the corporation can't figure out a path from the research to revenue, then it's smart to spin it off or shut it down. maybe the more amazing thing is that they couldn't find a competitive advantage in the vowpal wabbit project.
- crackpotbaker 11y agoyeah, it is a bit too black-and-white Microsoft is doing great stuff with it in finance, ads, and MR is doing amazing stuff.
- rezashirazian 11y agoLets not forget that they too shutdown part of their R&D department (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley) back in 2014.