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Siri: A Powerful Virtual Assistant For The iPhone(techcrunch.com)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|0 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
Agreed -- it looks like Wave will dump MORE information overload upon me. I want less, dammit! Less e-mail, less IM, less pictures. Give me only what I will find of utmost value.
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by abossy 17y ago
Definitely interested! I don't believe a U.S. G2 release has been announced.
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by abossy 17y ago
It's information science.
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by abossy 17y ago
No, it's time for a career change.
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by abossy 17y ago
It's difficult to think of a search term that will "stress test" a new search engine. I literally search Google anywhere from 20-100 times a day by using Ctrl+K in my browser. If that could be substituted by search engine X (where X, in thi
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by abossy 17y ago
Which field?
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Targeted Ads In An Unusual Location: A Bus Stop(senseable.mit.edu)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|0 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
Agreed -- this is stunning! I've never heard of this lab before, but they apparently place sensors and electronics around cities all over the world to gather and visualize data. Amazing! http://senseable.mit.edu/
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by abossy 17y ago
I think TakeNap.com would be great for an extended amount of time (10-15 minutes) that can be missed in extra-long movies.
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by abossy 17y ago
"Other companies like ING and Apple get it, which tells me that There are no constraints, no laws, just people who zigged when they should have zagged." Apple would die if it's design wasn't the best in the industry. They "get it" because t
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by abossy 17y ago
Indeed. Another question worth noting is, how many people are watching? The ratio of consumers to producers is big -- the fact that YouTube has people to watch all the content produced on it is what's remarkable about it.
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SolarWinds, First Venture-Backed IPO In Nine Months(venturebeat.com)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|0 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
A great overview on ensemble techniques in machine learning (what BellKor and many of the top competitors use): http://abeautifulwww.com/EnsembleLearning.pdf
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Pandora One: New Air App, Streams 192 kpbs Premium Audio(techcrunch.com)
5 points by abossy 17y ago|1 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
Not everybody does it automatically and mathematically on a large scale.
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by abossy 17y ago
Perks span a broad range of offerings. "Free candy," for example, isn't all that enticing, but having speakers from all over come speak to establish an environment with strong intellectual values is something that would definitely sway me i
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by abossy 17y ago
Not all young people are okay with it. "Texting at the dinner table" still requires a degree of social tact.
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by abossy 17y ago
Repeat post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532
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by abossy 17y ago
My first impression is that the design is NOT clean. Clean, to me, can entail a large amount of content organized in a neat and easy-to-read way. Your design is simple, which is good, but a bit cluttered. My suggestions to you: 1. There are
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by abossy 17y ago
You may not, since you understand the concept of natural language in the context of search queries and that it's a hard problem. I would wager that a non-trival subset of users in fact do use natural language in searches, especially i
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by abossy 17y ago
It seems like it fills holes that Google has rather than acts as a complete superset of Google functionality. I use Google for a lot of the queries they demonstrate, but I have to click-through and dig further to find my answer. With Wolfra
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by abossy 17y ago
This is really interesting. Apparently, they are learning what artistic characteristics of a photo defines "aesthetically pleasing" by using the ratings on photo.net as a training set. They can thus apply these characteristics to new photos
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by abossy 17y ago
Agreed. While reading through the article, it feels like an over-analysis of what is really a no-brainer: a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in a bad economy. Sure, many great ideas probably seem absurd initially, but that's more th
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by abossy 17y ago
I would like to know who the speakers are first. I know, it's more important to meet fellow Stack Overflow folks, but I meet geeks all the time in the Bay Area. "Six great speakers in each city" could be anybody.
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PETA On The Google Goats: Let Them Eat Grass (But They Need Perks)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by abossy 17y ago|1 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
This is definitely nice on the usability end. I wonder how much they've improved the semantics on their search, though. Just testing out "Paris Hilton" and "Hilton," it seems that they are still matching exact string patterns. This is usefu
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by abossy 17y ago
I switched to OS X four months ago, and while I think it's a great step forward from Windows, it isn't quite the same as a comprehensive tiling manager. I've used xmonad, and it's a dream -- I just haven't made sufficient time to put up the
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Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real(webdesignerdepot.com)
11 points by abossy 17y ago|5 comments
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by abossy 17y ago
At Startup School in April 2008, PG cited a '50% success rate.' The full video of his talk is located here: http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/paul-graham-at-startup-sc...

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