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by cliveowen 12y ago
Also, Facebook was founded 6 years after Google. I think Facebook is following the same trajectory if not doing better than Google at the time.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I must be misreading it, how can it be 23 billion dollars?
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I find it ironic that the background of the page keeps changing from light to dark and that the article is interspersed with images including a GIF.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I'm an Italian living in Rome and I can confirm everything you've said. > Never tried it but starting a business is probably a lot of > paper work. It's not only a bureaucratic nightmare, it's also a losing proposi
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Just today I installed Smash Hit and found out that it's pretty much useless if you don't shell out some money, you have to start over and over from the beginning because checkpoints are a premium feature. I hope this change will
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I completely agree with this and, as I said, it's obvious that more data produces better predictions, even with simple models. My point is that it looks backwards to me putting effort into finding more and better data (creating a corpu
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Doesn't this further prove my point? If you're saying that some tasks, like NLP, are too complex to tame and you should just throw more data at it, you're basically capitulating to complexity and taking the easier route. Isn&
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by cliveowen 12y ago
"They’ve also found that the models tend to become more accurate the more data they consume. That may be the next big goal for Google: building AI models that are based on billions of data points, not just millions. " I'm not
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by cliveowen 12y ago
A few weeks ago Jon Evans of TechCrunch said this: "Despite my techie contempt for their business practices, I really do want traditional publishers to survive, because their employees — unlike, I suspect, Amazon’s — tend to genuinely
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by cliveowen 12y ago
The highest barrier of entry for Android programming isn't the lack of learning resources but the need to use Eclipse/Android Studio coupled with very bad documentation.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Exactly, I can't believe they pay to be like that. They surely might train you to try and retain unsatisfied customers, but that employee looks like a bit too dedicated to the mission.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
"And what does Google get out of paying top-notch salaries to fix flaws in other companies’ code? Evans insists Project Zero is “primarily altruistic.”" I think it's great that Google is trying to make software more secure, b
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Why not redis?
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by cliveowen 12y ago
It's been a few years now since they started with the ridiculous headlines. I think the writers (mostly) do a pretty good job, the headlines are left to people whose job is entirely making attention-grabbing, link-bait titles.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
It's been proven for mice and Rhesus monkeys, but as far as humans go there's no reason to believe the same holds true.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Not only that, the article makes it sound like Larry Page set out to conquer the world and decided to start from a search engine. The reality is far from that, there is no master plan to capture the personal information of everyone, just th
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I always wondered how much advertising, in any shape or form, works. I know for a fact that advertising didn't convince me to buy anything this far.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I wonder if there's a similar way to show how you would encrypt and then decrypt a message using ElGamal, which is the natural evolution of Diffie-Hellman.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
This is really interesting, the part where he uses a spreadsheet on google docs made me think that I never used a spreadsheet in my life, I never even understood what they're good for. I have a feeling that they can be useful to most p
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Strange how I never heard of him before. While being both rich and an extremely accomplished individual, he seems to defy the stereotype of the mad genius.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I was about to write the same thing, I'll add that the takeaway is basically: keep doing what you've been doing and handle outliers singularly/let people figure it out themselves. It worked pretty well this far, it will keep
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Here it is, amendment 27: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//... "(53) Any person should have the right to have personal data concerning them rectified and a 'r
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by cliveowen 12y ago
You're way off track, and I guess it's because you're not European and thus not privy on the laws dictated by the European Parliament. The right to be forgotten is one of those rights that put the power of having factually in
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by cliveowen 12y ago
And there's still people who think there's no place for Math in programming.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Frankly I've never understood why email doesn't work this way, it looks backwards to me. As long as the recipient hasn't read the email the sender should have the right to delete it. Even if the client has already delivered t
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by cliveowen 12y ago
Generally when people are talking about extending human lifespan, they're talking about extending the active, healthy lifespan. Obviously, what we did until now with medical advances is prolong old age and delay the inevitable. If it&#
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by cliveowen 12y ago
"Learn new tools" I disagree with all this part. The way things are going, being a jack of all trades will only make you irrelevant very quickly. The market needs experts, and being an expert means focusing on one thing and one th
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by cliveowen 12y ago
The general scheme is surely the same, but here we're talking about an implementation problem, and Microsoft has an history of them. Here's basically what happens: 1)Log in->2)fail->3)asks for number->4)insert number-&g
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by cliveowen 12y ago
I can reset the password with the other email but once I've done the resetting I still can't log in and I get asked for the phone number.
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by cliveowen 12y ago
The problem is that even if I provide a number it says there was a problem and to try later. But it's been doing this for months. It's really appalling how backwards Microsoft's approach to security is, a real nightmare.

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