ProfChronos

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Eliza bot simulating Rogerian therapist(psych.fullerton.edu)
1 points by ProfChronos 10y ago|0 comments
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Optimal turn-taking behaviors for natural language(youtube.com)
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Funny to see that France is only 134th while French refer to their country as "The Exagon" (metropolitan France) - 3 ground borders and 3 sea borders. The expression was coined in the 1860s by school reformists and got popular aft
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
It is weird to see Techcrunch faking the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg with GAAP, "Street" and earnings per share expressions. Really not what I expect from TC... I can't help but think that good old days when TC used to e
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Fascinating study. It really triggers questions around how animals' memory work - short term vs long-term, trauma vs joy, etc. I have a 2-year French shepherd (Beauceron) who, while being smart, has a very limited long-term memory. I a
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Android Nougat beta version available(theverge.com)
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Netflix stock drops as user acquisition slows down(theverge.com)
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
"The middle class has no savings" => France saving ratio is 15% vs 5% in the US, so that's definitely not the point.
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
When reading the article I was remembering the words of Dominique Vidal, former Yahoo MD Europe, quoted by Criteo's cofounder Rudelle in his book: "Yahoo had everything to be Google. But when we reached a peak of users, we stopped
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Interesting timing: we have the same debate rising up in France with the acquisition of Medtech (Rosa medical robots) by Zimmer Biomet [1]. CEO and founder, Bertin Nahum, said he had to sell as he couldn't find the right funding in FR&
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Ghost busters AI challenge(codingame.com)
1 points by ProfChronos 10y ago|0 comments
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
I am really amazed by the comments I read so I am voluntarily going to "defend" VW while I would not in other circumstances. To make sure this is understood: yes VW is guilty, it has violated customers' trust, they are a sham
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
[1] https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/middle-east/israel...
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
I said Arabic OR Muslim because they are different. Maybe it would be useful for you to start reading properly what people write. I said Arabic people and not people speaking Arabic because that is completely different. Most of my friends
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Obviously they won't force the UK into staying in the EU but that's definitely not what's important here. They are just starting UK's internal discrepancies which could seriously damage the union and Westminster won&#x27
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
I find it really problematic: when you fill the US borders paperwork, you are supposed to give objective admin/personal details while on social media you are supposed to speak up your mind. Where do you place the limit between somebody
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Indeed Israel does it, but only for Arabic or Muslim tourists that present certain characteristics - political engagement for instance. So it does exist but it's really not mainstream
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
It's not as simple as that: they would still need to make the case but you lying at the border just gives US authorities bigger evidence. Couple of years ago a French tourist answered "yes" to make fun of US borders and ended
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Completely agree. When I was working for a French bank, I saw how the US treats money laundering and it's an absolute nightmare. Let's take the example of a transaction that is processed in EUR by a French bank, from a French comp
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
I recently read that Slack has combined salting and hashing with 2FA after their data breach in March 2015. But if I remember well, whenever you want to connect, you can get a "magic link" with an automatically generated password
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
40% is a valid EBITDA margin for telcos. Twilio is indeed slightly negative in terms of adjusted EBITDA (around -5%) but market cap of tech companies is usually rather based on NTM EBITDA or industry average EBITDA - see prospectus of IPOs
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Fact is Goldman Sachs - and maybe other banks - were allocated shares with a priviledged price during the FB's IPO as they were working on the IPO while buying stocks for their own clients. I know this was a special IPO, but my guess i
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Based on IPO stock price ($15) and market cap ($1.23Bn) and Twilio's revenue run rate around $150M, so that's x8.2 for Revenue and x20.5 for EBITDA (40% margin seems reasonable in the telcos industry). Pretty strong figures - AT&a
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
It happened for alleged terrorists no one knew about - apart from people working in security/intelligence/military services - and Sweden felt extremely shameful. Not sure they want to do that again with somebody almost every has h
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
You're right, I just wrote too fast, I meant what you wrote!
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
"You state that Sweden can't extradite him to the US. Given the fact that most of the laws created in most Western countries (ranging from tax law to civil law) are often not extremely well defined, and can be interpreted in diffe
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
While reading the wikipedia article, I couldn't help thinking about two things: - the Big Lebowski scene when Walter jumps on the Dude's attempt to quote Lenin and mixes Lenin with Lennon - one thing I recently read about natural
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
The article is quite superficial on many aspects: i) first, Uber is not in the sharing economy but in the on-demand: you don't share and monetize an asset (vs AirBnb), you offer a service activated by demand; ii) in my opinion, Uber
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
I agree with you, the "how it works" and the workflow are not crystal clear and gives room for suspicion about the validity of the legal advice given. That being said, if the service only gives transparent and actionable informati
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by ProfChronos 10y ago
Why do everyone mixes a decentralized system with a self-controlled system? Decentralization doesn't mean there is no power to regulate or no coordination between users/agents, it is just a model of architecture for a system where

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