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Why would FB work on such a tech?

• bredren 5y ago
  Perhaps having the freedom to work on these problems is necessary to keep talent. Positive stories associated with the brand seem especially needed these days. Perhaps FB keeps other “rainy day” projects as well.
  • superqd 5y ago
    I was contacted by their recruiters recently and started getting warmed up on their interviewing, etc. However, this was back in December when they put out ads against Apple's choice to allow users to opt out of tracking. It kind of made it difficult to want to follow through on the interview process after that... so I didn't.
    • local_dev 5y ago
      I did the same. I don't think you are alone, at all. FB pays well and works on really interesting things but I just can't justify the moral price of working there.
      • joering2 5y ago
        Thank you for your choice of not working there!
  • unityByFreedom 5y ago
    Yes, LeCun is still head of AI research there, and he's a big draw for talent. Any advancements like this (unsupervised learning) are a huge boon for technology. Often, the most time consuming part of machine learning is creating the labeled dataset. It's amazing to see what can be achieved without one.
• tempodox 5y ago
  To get even more data to analyze, sell, and leak.
• contriban 5y ago
  Are you looking at Facebook with glasses from 2010? Because one would expect a almost-trillion-dollar company to work on more than a single-focus product. Why would a search engine (1997) make glasses (2013)?
  • pydry 5y ago
    >Why would a search engine (1997) make glasses (2013)? It literally was just because Sergey Brin thought it was cool.