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by alangou 6y ago
I had no idea DeepMind even generated revenue. Thought it was solely a research lab, and so reading that Google is waiving the loan it's provided seems laughable in the sense that, well, of course it would. Does anyone actually care ab
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by alangou 9y ago
And for further knowledge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508440 - this is the comment that got me to look into Fluent Forever in the first place.
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by alangou 9y ago
It works. And it's written by someone who's (a) learned multiple languages himself, (b) done the research on human language learning and memory/expertise to condense an immensely effective method into a book. He's gather
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by alangou 9y ago
I'd certainly be very impressed if cryptocurrencies reached the point where they could affect the economy that much in the near future. The current market capitalization of all cryptos comes out to under $200 billion [1], while the US
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by alangou 9y ago
Toutiao is solving the Internet's current most pressing consumer-facing problem - the discovery of relevant content. It's a problem orthogonal to what Google solved earlier in the millenium, which is roughly "How do I find an
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by alangou 9y ago
This is a great move by Walmart. It is targeted directly at competing more effectively with Amazon. I don’t believe either company is worried about dilution of their respective brands. What Walmart needs is to keep leveraging its existing s
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by alangou 10y ago
I would say that's a misreading of his intent - informing developers about the contract law governing their employment is to help people not get burned at a later date because they were iffy about the details of this or that clause. Of
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by alangou 10y ago
Difficult-to-use software is most often the fault of bad design - and "software is everywhere" is precisely the reason we should care about making things easier and more accessible. The dozens or hundreds of engineering hours to r