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Interesting. Of I course, I'm not trying to discourage this at all. I really dig this stuff. Just writing my thoughts on another, complimentary approach. I gues
by adelevie 13y ago
Interesting. Of I course, I'm not trying to discourage this at all. I really dig this stuff. Just writing my thoughts on another, complimentary approach. I guess this makes sense from the perspective of a hacker who wants to build a cool thing for his/her own use.
The questions of efficiency really come into play when you see Yahoo! spending $30 million for Summly. For that, you could hire 60 people to work for $50,000/yr for one year. I wonder how 60 happily-employed English majors might stack up to something produced by Summly et al.
- monkeynotes 13y agoI bet you could set up a mechanical turk job to summarise news for a lot less than 60 people @ $50k a year and get similar results.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago“For [$30 million], you could hire 60 people to work for $50,000/yr for one year.” $30 million / $50,000 = 600 You wouldn’t be able to hire 600 people, but you’d definitely get more than 60 English majors. Even after taxes, insurance, benefits, HR, management, accounting, rent, equipment, travel expenses, etc, you could probably afford at least 200 English majors at $50,000 a year.
- adelevie 13y agoYea, I was off by a pesky decimal place.
- samsnelling 13y agoI know you aren't. In fact, you taking time out of your day to post here with your opinion about my site really does quite the opposite of discouraging me. Summly getting bought for that much really confuses me as well.