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by boxspam 8y ago
Robovalley right? Is there still animo for this? I would love to invest in elderly care technology, especially AI for Alzheimers. Would this still be possible, or is it a big company (Philips?) thing now?
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by boxspam 8y ago
Maybe he realized that his behavior would be against the new CoC. Maybe he had a good conversation with people he respects, where they confronted him with his behavior, and he was finally able to view his behavior through the lens of an out
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by boxspam 8y ago
The real world is hardly binary. Both the complaint may be valid, and part of a PR strategy.
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by boxspam 8y ago
I meant "the best" for the advertisers, not necessarily for the users. It is possible to do this transparently and there are times when users may actively search such "ads" out (and being paid a small fee, instead of tha
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by boxspam 8y ago
I do think that Google has data sharing with "hundreds of companies". These are not advertisers, these are ad companies. They recently updated to comply with GDPR. https://support.google.com/admanager/answer&#
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by boxspam 8y ago
Kill your fans.
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by boxspam 8y ago
I hate how Xi Jinping is running China so strictly. The Russian Apartment Bombings was an inside job. Westerners should have no business in the Middle East.
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by boxspam 8y ago
> Alex Jones will still be heard by his audience. Current audience. What about a new young audience? What about the part of the audience that wants to listen to him on Twitter? > That would be against Twitter's freedoms. I think
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by boxspam 8y ago
Qanon is a Russian psyop and a bunch of unwitting agents.
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by boxspam 8y ago
This may have something to do with: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-conspiracy-... I think the Russia investigation has unearthed links between conspiracy theorists and efforts to divide and under
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by boxspam 8y ago
The Periscope video was the last straw. Jones was angry and ranting, because that journalist had claimed that his campaigning/efforts lead to Jones' ban on social networks. > Important to note that tech platforms did not enforc
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by boxspam 8y ago
Why? Just because you have active PR, your methods are now also flawed? What is the conflict of interest for a company doing or hiring a PR? Is it fraud or unethical to promote your company? Your logic/conclusion makes no sense to me a
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by boxspam 8y ago
They actually reduced the average length of stay for knee replacement from 3.3 to 2.4 days. They verifiably saved costs of a middle-sized hospital of 10m$ a year. If we assume professional integrity, then they won't intentionally infla
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by boxspam 8y ago
> is likely just overfitting the existing data. I would be more careful with your assessment. Or you are overfitting to your limited 5-minute-understanding of what this does. Telling mathematicians and statisticians they have overfitted
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by boxspam 8y ago
This is more of a puffy PR piece for the IT supplier. The methods they use are very advanced mathematics / graph theory. If we take the modern usage of the word "AI", then this qualifies. These methods are beyond what anyone
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by boxspam 8y ago
I wonder if there is a deeper structure/nature to business growth and popularity, something akin to the Matthew effect [1] ("to everyone who has more will be given") or power laws. People have limited energy to store and rank
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by boxspam 8y ago
Encryption while keeping the "shape"/"form" of the data intact. This way you can have secure third-party computation, without that third-party knowing exactly what data it is operating on.
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by boxspam 8y ago
> One of my random question is that what does Google gain by spending resources on developing course like this? Mindshare or more generally PR. Also to "collect" the talent on their platforms (Tensorflow, Google Cloud, ...). Al
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by boxspam 8y ago
This is what scares me about these stories. First kill any competition (go in debt if you need to) to become a giant. Then start enforcing (sometimes arbitrary or politicized) rules to the detriment of some customers who now have nowhere el