sbw1

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by sbw1 10y ago
Wait, are they planning to track data and sell targeted ads, or to literally sell web history? The headline implies the latter but I can't see in the article where it says that. That is a pretty huge distinction..
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by sbw1 10y ago
Classic non-ML AI research these days sometimes tends to be baked into the background of systems where deep learning is the star-- e.g., all of the search techniques used in AlphaGo are interesting in their own right, but aren't really
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by sbw1 10y ago
Your techtimes link doesn't have anything about Arab countries (or Clinton for that matter), the only fact in there is that Google and others were invited to an NSA talk about "security" in 2011.
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by sbw1 11y ago
> Is this the attitude toward privacy and data isolation at Alphabet/Google? It is a Twitter remark by an ex-Googler who had nothing to do with Abacus and never worked at Verily. That is, some combination of snark and wild-ass specu
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by sbw1 11y ago
Can anyone find it on street view? Must be somewhere around here: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8662696,2.3648286,3a,75y,144...
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by sbw1 11y ago
This is cool. This person did something similar on a bike: http://rideallofsf.tumblr.com/ (go back a page or so, the project finished a while ago and it has since devolved into Strava drawings)
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by sbw1 11y ago
This is copied from a 2013 Atlantic article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
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by sbw1 11y ago
s/want to consume/are willing and able to work around government censorship to consume/ Google explicitly decided not to play ball in mainland China years ago. It will be interesting to see the reaction if this goes through-
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by sbw1 12y ago
I'm pretty sure this isn't a thing, at least as far as Google is concerned. At least, I work there and live in SF and have never heard of it. Pay is higher in the Bay Area due to high cost of living, like for most companies, but I
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by sbw1 12y ago
Interesting, but the connection to symbols from Japan seems a bit dubious (or at least not very recent). The term "cross out", and hence the use of an "x" to indicate negating something, seems to have been in common use
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by sbw1 13y ago
No, the strawman constructed to represent these people espouses libertarian ideals and refuses to participate or share. Actual shuttle riders require the shuttle (to the degree that they really "require" it) because it drives them