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by code4tee 8y ago
My previous company stopped advertising on Twitter for precisely this reason. Our own analytics showed that the majority of the clicks we were getting and being charged for were obviously either bits or other spam accounts. It was actually
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by code4tee 8y ago
In the days when USB sticks were more common it was an easy tactic for someone to drop one in a company parking lot labeled “salary data” and with almost certainty that thing would get plugged into a device on the corporate network. The big
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by code4tee 8y ago
Perhaps, but there are far easier ways to solve that problem. Digital signing of data to protect against alteration has been around for ages and doesn’t require “blockchain.”
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by code4tee 8y ago
IBM is quietly brushing its Watson mess under the carpet and now they’re trying to focus on blockchain. However this is just as substanceless and full of marketing fluff as Watson was. There’s nothing being done here that couldn’t or should
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by code4tee 8y ago
Purely on hardware yes it’s no secret that AWS is more, quite a bit more, than just buying/building the machine and plugging it in. That’s for any servers no just “deep learning” servers. Of course you’re also paying for everything els
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by code4tee 8y ago
Its a harsh but fair analogy. The region has lost its soul. People moving there have little intention of setting down roots and staying long term. People who have lived there long term are just waiting to cash out on their house and move fa
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by code4tee 8y ago
That’s the job of (real) journalists. I would imagine the vast majority of content submitted to the Times via these channels never appears in print because it doesn’t pass scrutiny and/or isn’t relevant.
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by code4tee 8y ago
I remember the excitement of hunting for animated GIFs for your homepage and putting up the ubiquitous “under construction” image on the pages you were still working on.
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The NYC scene seems much more grounded than Silicon Valley. As others have said all the big tech companies are already here but, unlike Silicon Valley, anyone who is anyone in tons of other industries is also in NYC. That keeps the focus mo
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Simply put, actions like this reaffirm that encryption works. Use it.
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Sadly very accurate
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This is broadly a good thing—certainly where clearcut areas have been allowed to return to forest.
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Computer based chemistry (modeling of molecules and reactions) is nothing new. It seems (although not clear from the site) that this is some sort of ML-based “reaction prediction” algorithm based on pattern matching of known reactions vs mo
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by code4tee 8y ago
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the technology. However, doing ML well isn’t really about the ML as much as it’s about getting everything leading up to the ML right. That’s the difference between value-add applications of ML and an ex
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by code4tee 8y ago
Not on the sidelines, I’m on the field. That’s why I’m glad to see the reality finally getting attention. As the article says, a lot of healthcare professionals that once were onboard have distanced themselves from IBM and these projects.
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Glad to see the broader market finally catching on to the marketing fluff train that was “Watson”. On the one hand IBM did an impressive job tapping into people’s desire for “big data stuff” as a lot of uninformed folks talked a lot about “
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by code4tee 8y ago
Lending $5 million to MoviePass at this point is probably as close as you can get to literally throwing your cash on a burning heap. Must be some term sheet!
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by code4tee 8y ago
I think Goldman was seen as a “cool” place to work maybe like 12+ years ago before the crash. Now, not so much.
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by code4tee 8y ago
I just don’t understand how they have $9 billion in revenue but are unprofitable. A slightly simpler version of the site could probably be run by a few people in someone’s basement plus some outsourced support staff.
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Two failing companies fighting in court. In the end, only the lawyers win.
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by code4tee 8y ago
Not sure about this. It’s more that the city grew from south to north and at a certain point they started using the grid plan. Lower Manhattan is pre-Grid and a lot like Boston with streets in all directions.
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by code4tee 8y ago
Annoying that Apple pretended there wasn’t an issue for so long but they have a decent track record of doing right by their customer in the long run. I’ve seen this keyboard issue first hand on machines and it’s both legit and highly annoyi
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by code4tee 8y ago
A board doesn’t fire its CEO because they went on a few dates with someone a while back—even if that’s against company policy. Getting the popcorn out to see how this unfolds...
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by code4tee 8y ago
Let’ss Hope soo becausse it’s gettiing to be quitee annnnoying.
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by code4tee 8y ago
When you consider that much of WeWork’s revenue is likey just VC dollars paying the expenses of their tenants then the whole thing looks even crazier. VC money paying revenue of a startup that uses that revenue to justify raising more money
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by code4tee 8y ago
If you’ve ever been to India you see that clearly the general approach to things is just throw people at the problem. Why have one person inspecting your ticket when you can have four? The problem with the Indian outsourcers is that they’ve
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by code4tee 8y ago
I was aware the cell phone companies were selling anonymized data for some time (not revealing the numbers and adding some jitter to the location data to avoid identifying users). This is the first I’m hearing that they’re releasing detaile
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SF used to be a very diverse and culturally interesting city. That city has died. It’s become a monoculture around tech to a fault. Other cities with highly successful and growing tech scenes (like NYC) have a much more diverse economy that
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Cruise control is very different. It doesn’t allow people to take their attention off the road. In the Tesla deaths it appears quite clear that the driver was not paying attention to the road.
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The “autopilot” concept isn’t going to work at scale with cars. It’s either autonomous or it’s not. As these accidents demonstrate drivers can’t be relied upon to ‘monitor’ the autopilot and react if something goes wrong. It’s a deeply flaw

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