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I had a similar experience early in my career. I worked at a company tracking social media posts for companies to analyze conversations online about their produ
by ngngngng 6y ago
I had a similar experience early in my career. I worked at a company tracking social media posts for companies to analyze conversations online about their products and services. Coincidentally, everything we built worked brilliantly for tracking people. At it's worst, our product was very Orwellian.
I built the NLP features in Arabic, because Saudi Arabia was having a hard time tracking their people as well as they would have liked since Arabic wasn't supported. A few months after I shipped the features, Jamal Khashoggi was killed. Who knows what other atrocities I contributed to.
I was just so damn excited as a junior engineer who didn't even speak Arabic to work on something so cool.
- knolax 6y ago> I built the NLP features in Arabic, > who didn't even speak Arabic I think that's the real atrocity. Think about all the Arabic speakers out there who have deal with substandard NLP.