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by gridit 9y ago
Wolfram Alpha debuted in 2009. Just imagine what they could have been if they'd opened up "skill" creation to the public. Given that devices equivalent to Alexa or Google Home could pretty much be launched on Kickstarter, is
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by gridit 9y ago
The work of a scholar I follow has covers this topic a little. Chris Blattman recently co-wrote an op-ed [0] about his data covering sweatshops in Ethiopia. They found that it wasn't always so clear that these dangerous industrial jo
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by gridit 9y ago
I enjoyed reading this, and was surprised to learn it was written two decades ago in (1998). I wonder what we've learned since?
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by gridit 9y ago
This seems pretty streamlined and well-documented, although I wonder if they could have delayed the Facebook login. Convincing users to do your data cleaning for you is quite the trick, like the Smithsonian . I wonder, what more underhande
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Fix It: an online game to correct errors in our machine-generated transcripts(fixit.americanarchive.org)
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by gridit 9y ago
I was curious too and found this list (sorry about the parent site): https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2015/07/21/top-8-indus... 1. Fanuc 2. Yaskawa 3. ABB 4. Kawasaki The first one mostly has opening
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by gridit 9y ago
> It reinvents how people interact with artificial intelligence by allowing you to teach it instead of guessing what it'll understand. Putting out an app like this seems like a great idea, if only to have a platform to start collect
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by gridit 9y ago
[As a layperson] the most convincing argument the Authors Guild makes is given I think in their SCOTUS petition: that Google's "fair use" is sidestepping a legitimate business opportunity for the rights holders. Books are no
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by gridit 9y ago
I have been going down the rabbit hole of copyright, fair use, and the Google Books Settlement recently. This article is a great summary including a lot of the peripheral issues, but the "2003 law review article" linked in TFA is
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Public Domain Day: January 1, 2017(law.duke.edu)
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by gridit 9y ago
Ok, here is one of the important opinions in the Google Books settlement, by Judge Chin in 2013 [0]. He basically says (paraphrasing), "I'm going to assume Google has violated copyright by creating digital copies and serving them
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by gridit 9y ago
"If Google could find a way to take that corpus, sliced and diced by genre, topic, time period, all the ways you can divide it, and make that available to machine-learning researchers and hobbyists at universities and out in the wild,
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by gridit 9y ago
Here is a more proper link, if anyone wants to avoid going straight to pdf: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01501735/
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by gridit 10y ago
Interesting that they provided an official incarnation of the WaveNet model for the github code repo https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta/tree/master/magenta/mo...