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I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week
- pinaceae 10y agoBaity title for maximum effect, but the article itself is not so bad. Content marketing, but ok.
- the_cat_kittles 10y agoi suggest removing the unnecessary $500M and one week from the title. those things are total clickbait.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI suggest leaving them in for the same reason.
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- saganus 10y agoYeah, it's very clickbaity but I figured it was the original title, and the content was interesting enough to be submitted. Hopefully it won't prevent people from reading it because of an anti-clickbait reaction.
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- red_dinosaur 10y agoThe author of this story clearly does not know what "reverse engineer" means. This is reverse engineering AI companies: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943
- maxmcd 10y agoPrevious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964685
- loeber 10y agoThis isn't reverse-engineering at all. Frankly, I think this is a reasonably cool project, but it's brazenly dishonest of the author to claim he "reverse-engineered a company" when all he did was conduct elementary statistics on an open dataset. You can reasonably expect that there's much more to OPower's data analytics suite, and furthermore, a company is of course much more than its flagship product. There are lots of smart metering companies: why is OPower among the most successful? Maybe the interesting thing to really think about is not their analytics but their sales and marketing strategies.
- inputcoffee 10y agoThat's nothing. I reverse-engineered Twitter in one hour using Wordpress. Sorry. I try not to be to mean, but this title was just crying out for it.