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This reads like a big joke. I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. But watch me get quoted in a post in 2022 about ho

This reads like a big joke. I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. But watch me get quoted in a post in 2022 about how naive we were.

mdrzn 10y ago
Alexa, remind me in 8 years.
- AznHisoka 10y ago
  Alexa, go unclog the toilet... oh wait, you can't? ok, not asking for much, go fold my laundry!.. No?! Is Pluto a Planet? Wait, I want a real home assistant, god damn it!
pavel_lishin 10y ago
> I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. Why not? Their money hires engineers the same as anyone else's.
- thieving_magpie 10y ago
  I just mean it doesn't pass my personal "what do I think is possible in the near future?" test. I'm not claiming to be objective, just a gut reaction that we might quietly read how this project team was transitioned into some other project in a couple years. Nothing wrong with that at all, by the way. I love that companies fund careers for people to explore big possibility ideas and experiments like this.
- floathub 10y ago
  I suspect there are an awful lot of very good engineering types who would never go and work for Facebook. No matter how much you paid them (well, let's say bounded at the upper end by a very, very large number). Although (nearly?) everyone has their price, few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall. I suspect Facebook worries about this. [edit to remove oops; double negative]
  - ironchef 10y ago
    "few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall" I fear you suffer from some form of bias. Or maybe I do; however, I know some folks there who, in the devops or data engineering world, get it. I mean you had Taner (who also lent his hand to building battle.net's infrastructure), Keith Adams, JPC, David Reiss, John Allen, eric huang, sam rash, etc. Their largest hadoop cluster has _several_ hundred PB of data. You don't manage / run things on that without having some chops. Period. If you read the under the hood series, you might be able to see a different viewpoint.
    - LunaSea 10y ago
      The ethical viewpoint is very clear though. They just chose to be morally bankrupt.
  - Gargoyle 10y ago
    Do you have any examples?
  - pavel_lishin 10y ago
    Who else is working in this field, and throwing this much money at it? If this is your dream job that pays your dream salary, and nobody else is offering you the same pay or experience, I think you just might consider working for Facebook. You can always leave.
  - abrichr 10y ago
    The directory of Facebook AI Research is Yan LeCun, one of the top minds in the field of deep learning.
- debt 10y ago
  science != engineering

This reads like a big joke. I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. But watch me get quoted in a post in 2022 about how naive we were.

mdrzn 10y ago

Alexa, remind me in 8 years.

AznHisoka 10y ago
Alexa, go unclog the toilet... oh wait, you can't? ok, not asking for much, go fold my laundry!.. No?! Is Pluto a Planet? Wait, I want a real home assistant, god damn it!

pavel_lishin 10y ago

> I do not think Facebook could get remotely close to figuring out this technology. Why not? Their money hires engineers the same as anyone else's.

thieving_magpie 10y ago
I just mean it doesn't pass my personal "what do I think is possible in the near future?" test. I'm not claiming to be objective, just a gut reaction that we might quietly read how this project team was transitioned into some other project in a couple years. Nothing wrong with that at all, by the way. I love that companies fund careers for people to explore big possibility ideas and experiments like this.
floathub 10y ago
I suspect there are an awful lot of very good engineering types who would never go and work for Facebook. No matter how much you paid them (well, let's say bounded at the upper end by a very, very large number). Although (nearly?) everyone has their price, few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall. I suspect Facebook worries about this. [edit to remove oops; double negative]
- ironchef 10y ago
  "few people with _serious_ technical chops want to play on Facebook's side of the garden wall" I fear you suffer from some form of bias. Or maybe I do; however, I know some folks there who, in the devops or data engineering world, get it. I mean you had Taner (who also lent his hand to building battle.net's infrastructure), Keith Adams, JPC, David Reiss, John Allen, eric huang, sam rash, etc. Their largest hadoop cluster has _several_ hundred PB of data. You don't manage / run things on that without having some chops. Period. If you read the under the hood series, you might be able to see a different viewpoint.
  - LunaSea 10y ago
    The ethical viewpoint is very clear though. They just chose to be morally bankrupt.
- Gargoyle 10y ago
  Do you have any examples?
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  Who else is working in this field, and throwing this much money at it? If this is your dream job that pays your dream salary, and nobody else is offering you the same pay or experience, I think you just might consider working for Facebook. You can always leave.
- abrichr 10y ago
  The directory of Facebook AI Research is Yan LeCun, one of the top minds in the field of deep learning.
debt 10y ago
science != engineering