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... instead of nuclear bombs?

• capableweb 4y ago
  Instead of safety devices ("slowly moved away from creating nuclear things and invented a motorcycle air bag"). Surely that would have a better impact on the world instead of aiding political campaigns with machine learning, ads and data. Edit: Yeah, reading his Wikipedia page, I'm 100% sure he could have spent his time better. > The experience he had gained during his campaigns obtaining the voter list from the state and using it for campaign purposes led him [...] to found Aristotle, Inc. [...] a consulting firm for political campaigns [...] It specializes in combining voter lists with personal data from other sources (such as income, gun ownership or church attendance) and data-mining, to assist with micro-targeting of specific voter groups; as of 2007, its database contained detailed information about ca. 175 million U.S. voters and it had about 100 employees.
• jiggywiggy 4y ago
  We have so many data companies. He clearly show ability to build some "real" world applications.