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First, thanks to the management for hosting a fabulous event. That was the most entertaining day I've had in a long time. I'd like to add some additional commen
by projectileboy 19y ago
First, thanks to the management for hosting a fabulous event. That was the most entertaining day I've had in a long time. I'd like to add some additional comments to Mr. Arrington's:
- Although Jeff Bezos didn't directly comment on Google App Engine, he did an awful lot of indirect commenting, by way of pointing out features of AWS that are noticeably absent from Google App Engine.
- After the day was done, I overheard some folks who sounded bored and disappointed by Peter Norvig's talk, which focused on the application of large data sets and machine learning to practical problems. I was shocked by the reaction, as it seemed to me that Norvig was basically giving us a roadmap for (a) finding interesting problems and (b) solving them. Short of writing a check, I'm not sure what else he could have done for the audience.
- Am I the only one who thinks it's funny - and a sad comment on the software development community - that technical conferences always have the most technical problems?
- Paul Buchheit is Bob Newhart. And I mean that as a compliment.
- DaniFong 19y agoPeople were all psyched up for more self affirming startup things. Even I seem to operate in a 'startup' mode and a hacker mode. It seems weird. I spent most of my week on machine learning. Yet after hours of talks on entrepreneurship, Norvig's talk of clustering and segmentation made my mental gears switch. I don't think people expected it.
- comatose_kid 19y agoIs there a good text you could recommend on the topic?
- DaniFong 19y agoIf you spend a weekend or two watching machine learning Google tech talks you can start with a roar. There's also 'Programming Collective Intelligence', Norvig's own book 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach', and the growing Netflix literature. One of the interesting things people discovered while attacking the netflix problem is that the rating graph encodes features like 'heroism', 'horror', 'absurdity', 'romance', 'political protest', and 'not monty python' -- you only need a little ingenuity to assign words to said features by looking at extreme feature exemplars.
- comatose_kid 19y agoThank you.