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by orijing 16y ago
I was following until I got here: It also offers 100% secure file deletion (disconnect both the external and the internal power!). Flash drives can't offer this. Hard disks suffer from magnetic remnance and so retain their data even after
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I think that's exactly what he was wondering.
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Just a note, the original 1.2 million Facebook shares are before the 5-for-1 split last October. So in terms of "new" shares, the settlement contains 6 million shares. The irony you point out is very telling, but would be less ironic if Fac
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by orijing 16y ago
Ex-intern on the Facebook ads team here. Facebook's role in the marketing funnel is not to get from interested customers to buy from the company. Its role is at the level of TV advertisements and display ads: Build awareness. RWW is going a
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by orijing 16y ago
What's DFT? Discrete Fourier transforms?
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by orijing 16y ago
What do you think Google should do that Facebook doesn't let you do with its privacy settings? In my opinion, Google is even more open than Facebook about user data...
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by orijing 16y ago
Very interesting observation! It didn't immediately seem obvious to me why there were references to "welcome center", "dental", etc.
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by orijing 16y ago
Ah, I meant academic, as in "came out of a university." Sorry I left that unclear. I wasn't saying it was "qualitatively different," but that it did not develop speech recognition . It was the work of many, MANY brilliant people, and to sa
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by orijing 16y ago
That's not the "whole point of the article". The "approaches" are academic in origin; the difference is that Google has more data to train those approaches. Their "approaches" are not different from "existing academic initiatives." Academia
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by orijing 16y ago
I am not an expert on speech recognition, but I am somewhat involved with machine translation. For MT, it's very architectural systems issues that limit us, first from trying different models and algorithms, but also in general. How do you
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by orijing 16y ago
Oh yeah, I agree that Google should be praised for taking research and producing useful applications. I am not disparaging Google in the least. I respect them for bringing NLP to the masses. I meant to dispel the myth that Google invented
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by orijing 16y ago
I don't understand why you're trying to make this an "us vs. them" thing. What is it about academia that makes it so that Google's research can't be considered a part? Does the fact that there are students around somehow make it different?
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by orijing 16y ago
Very interesting idea. However, it made me think that one major flaw of Dropbox will limit its potential as the "ultimate storage." Dropbox is very memory intensive, even for my 5 gigs and my 40,000 files in the Box. If you cover my entire
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by orijing 16y ago
I agree. In fact, I wish the threshold for downvoting were based on some moving average (or fixed-period trailing sum) of your karma. It would encourage everyone who wants the downvote power to write more thoughtful comments (not just write
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by orijing 16y ago
Sorry to be a killjoy, but the premise of this article--that Google developed the speech-recognition technology--hurts my feelings (to say the least) and underestimates the contributions of the NLP community. Speech recognition, like mach
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by orijing 16y ago
The premise of this article is flawed at best. Once it's established that one firm in an industry has a clear advantage, it doesn't make sense to say "Competition doesn't matter. Look at X" because that's selection bias. Of course at that p
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by orijing 16y ago
Given the numbers 1 to 1,000 Seems to me like they're asking for integers, but suppose they mean reals. Depending on the distribution, you can still guess the right number with positive probability. It could be dominated by 500!
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by orijing 16y ago
Apologies in advance for sounding so pessimistic, but this is just another example of beggar-thy-neighbor tax/tax-break policies that limit government revenue potential.
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by orijing 16y ago
I am not sure how you can pay them for the second part, but I found a plugin called Rapportive that replaces ads with more useful stuff: http://rapportive.com/ You should try it. It's really useful for business emails.
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by orijing 16y ago
I'm not going to argue whether Amazon (and other online merchants) should be forced to collect sales taxes in California, whether it's an ethical or legal responsibility, but it's definitely in California's interest to do so, and not just i
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by orijing 16y ago
I don't want to sound cold, but it depends on your SO and the startup . If your SO is someone you can't live without, then your decision is clear. If your startup is going to make your life so much better, and it's your ultimate passion, b
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by orijing 16y ago
I agree. I meant to offer a point of contrast (perhaps a little extreme).
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by orijing 16y ago
There's a much wider range of ability among self-proclaimed self-taught programmers. Some may be "self-taught" to the level that they have completed and understood the entire Art of Computer Programming (those released already, anyway). S
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by orijing 16y ago
I think it's partially because they manage so much money . I agree that they're overpaid, but maybe their funds don't think so. Let's take a hedge fund manager who's making $10m a year. If he's managing a $5b fund, even if his performance
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by orijing 16y ago
Yeah, I have friends at Waterloo who are on that system. The benefit is that they have a lot of experience under their belt, and perhaps the assumption is that companies (for FT positions) will reward them for that?
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by orijing 16y ago
Exactly. I was able to pay for tuition and living expenses without debt and financial aid because software internships were so lucrative (even in the midst of the Great Recession). But then again, I studied at a public university. I feel fo
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by orijing 16y ago
Exactly. I described this exact process on Quora a few days ago [1]. Note, that doesn't mean that I believe that the current distribution of wealth is good, but that simply taxing the super-rich a lot is not going to work (as a mechanism) [
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by orijing 16y ago
> I think it's easy: jobs as scientists in the U.S. suck relative to other jobs. Consider that firefighters or cops get paid reasonably well; effectively can't be fired after a short probationary period unless they do something incredib
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by orijing 16y ago
I'm surprised to hear this. In my experience (at UC Berkeley), my professors (at least the EECS ones) are at the forefront of their field. For example, in my NLP class, some of the papers we read are from our professor (Klein et al 2010). T
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Facebook to be worth $234b in 2015, says Wedbush(slideshare.net)
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