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by crucifiction 3y ago
Missing Oracle Cloud which has a massive GPU footprint - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/
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by crucifiction 5y ago
AltriaBook
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by crucifiction 5y ago
The bar raiser decides “hire for Amazon at X level and role” and then the manager decides if they want that person on their team or not. If it’s a hire decision but manager declines the specific person they find another team instead.
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by crucifiction 6y ago
The reason they don’t push this is because Stadia, like a lot of things, is just a side project at google. It does nothing to drive significant new ad revenue, so it’s never going to get this kind of deep pocket investment.
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by crucifiction 7y ago
What is different this time is cloud computing / always connected devices. This enables easy collection and access to enormous amounts of training (and continuous retraining) data needed, as well as offloading processing to a single, c
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by crucifiction 7y ago
It is an ROI decision. Almost everyone on the planet now carries around an echo-equivalent in their pocket all day, that also happens to have video, GPS, text and call data, and as such is a far more significant personal privacy concern tha
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by crucifiction 7y ago
There isn't though. This is just voice control of existing things people are already doing through Amazon. This is data they already have. Is data inherently evil? I don't understand how there is some significantly different priva
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by crucifiction 7y ago
I doubt they want to start a cell company, more likely it is to have favorable terms for embedding 4G into Echo devices, making car and portable echos possible. They have done this for years w/Kindle, which would also benefit.
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by crucifiction 8y ago
I think its really #4 - cloud is still a minor side bet for them, something investors are expecting them to try to work at but that the core company doesn't really care about. its kind of a bigger google X project. aws and azure are si
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by crucifiction 8y ago
Google is the new 2005 Microsoft
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by crucifiction 8y ago
Hotdog or not hotdog
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by crucifiction 9y ago
They acquired Android. Waymo and Tensorflow are cool r&d but not businesses.
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by crucifiction 9y ago
The real reason is why any large enterprise does something unusual: “it has always been like that”.
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by crucifiction 9y ago
Amazon is not a monopoly, Google is. Retail is ENORMOUS and even in the area of online retail, which is still only a minor segment of all retail sales, Amazon still only has something like 30-50% marketshare depending on the type of good&#x
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by crucifiction 9y ago
gold is actually used to do things, outside of jewelry its used in various industrial applications (for example, the computer you are using right now). so there is a floor to the value of gold, because its a real commodity. there is no floo
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by crucifiction 9y ago
Your numbers on US online spending are way off. US online spending was about $400B in 2016. In 2017 Amazon alone has posted about 120B in revenue (low 100s minus AWS) year to date with guidance for 55-60B in Q4 alone.
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by crucifiction 9y ago
The OP that I was replying to was insinuating that FB is collecting audio as training data to create AI models like the ones you are talking about. I was pointing out that raw audio is useless to train an AI model for recognizing words, the
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by crucifiction 9y ago
Its only useful to train if they also have the transcript by a human. Eavesdropping conversations and having armies of people transcribing them seems like a very expensive and illegal way to get that data when there are probably millions of
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by crucifiction 9y ago
This is a ridiculous standard for an employer. He has at will employment, they can fire him and he can also leave if he dislikes their diversity programs. Regardless of his thesis, a private employer has no duty to support any/all spee
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by crucifiction 9y ago
Software has always been about copying features, since the very beginning of the industry. With a software product there is always only a short window of having something innovative before others add it to their same products.
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by crucifiction 9y ago
talent is only ever one ingredient. why doesnt google dominate the cloud? why couldnt microsoft pull off a smartphone?
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by crucifiction 9y ago
This enables them to very quickly scale out AmazonFresh, which to date is only in about a dozen areas, to every single area that WholeFoods is in. If you have not used AmazonFresh its pretty clearly a competitor for the same income level pe
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Because land is an asset, there is no getting around that.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
1) They do make money (profit) and they also re-invest 2) About 20% of the S&P 500 companies do not pay a dividend, are they failures? For example, Apple did not pay a dividend until a few years ago and continues to have $200B stockpile
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Tech has probably increased 20-25% YoY, as it has for a while. Alexa and AWS especially are basically hiring as fast as they can get people to move to Seattle. More remote offices are opening/expanding to make up the difference.
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Large changes to H1-B and other programs floated in draft executive order(nytimes.com)
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Amazon figured out a while ago its tech can extend their primary business and also be sold to other businesses on the side (AWS and 3p sellers/FBA). This is a broadening that google hasn't been successful at yet.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
I think, as proven by Glass, that the public seems to view Google as nice but creepy. Whereas Amazon is usually tops in customer brand/satisfaction type of scores. My guess is that this is why even though Google definitely has a techno
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by crucifiction 10y ago
But that is a nuisance more than the ability to own/maintain control.
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by crucifiction 10y ago
Actually its good. If you study for months on interview questions to be able to pass the interview, you have "gamed" the system to get in and will likely be washed back out in 1-2 years depending on the mercy if your leadership te

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