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by ashot 17y ago
thanks!
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by ashot 17y ago
when doing nlp is there a standardized system or practice for encoding this data (which word(s) where emphasized)? what is the logical framework for this? at first I thought you could only have one emphasized word per statement, but though
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by ashot 17y ago
I was wondering, why are there no google ads on the swine flu search term: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swine+flu&btnG=... is this not a reliable way to tell if there are ads or not? or is it that not enough ads have been
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by ashot 17y ago
if the virus spreads as well in the real world as it does in the virtual one we're screwed
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by ashot 17y ago
I think the bigwigs call this a "brand" or "voice" Twitter has an great branding: happy, fun, lighthearted, and yet still cool. And it accomplishes all that without trying too hard and remaining a neutral utility.
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by ashot 17y ago
this sounds like something that spans the (rather wide) gap between google and aws + public data sets. I wonder how far you can go in terms of combining data/hacking on it? For example they mention real-time financial data. So can I write
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by ashot 17y ago
compare to the half dozen failed attempts by microsoft and other big co's to solve this problem
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by ashot 17y ago
this is a performance art. a relatively simple an awesome addition would be something that would record a session and replay it. then build a simple social net/comments ratings on sessions.
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by ashot 17y ago
the interesting thing is to look at countries that had dominant social networks already, like Germany: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=www.studivz.net%2Cfacebo... It looks like fb is going to be able to dominate in the long term. My
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by ashot 17y ago
Its a nice thought, and I feel where he's coming from, but it feels like one of those rants thats a bit in denial about human nature.
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by ashot 17y ago
this would be a great addition to public data sets, though I imagine for that to happen it would need some sort of viable plan to keep the data in sync
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by ashot 18y ago
Please don't use "M$"
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by ashot 18y ago
these scores are not comparable because they are missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the likelihoods of your predictions. I predict everyday for the rest of the year that the dow jones will be above 2 and below 4 million. The right meas
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by ashot 18y ago
does facebook's do the same?
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by ashot 18y ago
Facebook beat them to it ;) Agreed, though I predict it will quickly fall to the same fate as the popup. It will go beyond a certain threshold of annoyingness and then websites, users, and browsers will block them out of existence.
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by ashot 18y ago
ala twitter, sf geek crowd
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by ashot 18y ago
Sorry, I hate to be that guy and keep arguing, but I'll just say google does not fit here at all because: 1. there are huge up-front costs and a lot of IP to building a competing search engine (not the case here) 2. google is a consumer com
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by ashot 18y ago
they are cheaper and lower margin
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by ashot 18y ago
thats my point, its all based on an open stack. so while innovative and important (i no longer use my regular host) its reproducible. In fact there are already several players converging on this space (slicehost et al, appengine). Long ter
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by ashot 18y ago
how much of that stack is proprietary?
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by ashot 18y ago
dna analysis is a niche, this is a service which by its nature is very easy to commoditize. To be useful it has to be invisible, and to be invisible it must have zero switch cost
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by ashot 18y ago
I don't agree. Though I think its great and technologically the next step forward this will never be a high margin business and will quickly turn into a race to the bottom as the switching costs are zero.
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by ashot 18y ago
short dell, appl, hp?
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by ashot 18y ago
I'm not a ruby dev, but could you be more specific? Assuming you are refering to syntax, not speed: how is it good for prototyping but not "data-intensive tasks"
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by ashot 18y ago
virtual currency
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by ashot 18y ago
agreed, this is not a good metaphor
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by ashot 18y ago
if it is a "bad trade" then the salary levels are wrong by definition
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by ashot 18y ago
"relational databases are really good solutions to problems we don't have"
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by ashot 18y ago
That maybe true (Capistrano which you reference was pulled out of 37 signals) but I think my general criticism still stands (+ standardization in and of itself has benefits in that it helps people help each other). The rails community from
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by ashot 18y ago
I went there, its true

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