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by sib 9y ago
<Search for something specific like "white nike hightops" and maybe 30% of the results will be what you are looking for.> While I understand your frustration, there is an explanation. You are thinking of search & filteri
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by sib 9y ago
Both are in the grocery business. However, both are effectively "bit players" in the business: Whole Foods has about 1.7% market share, while Amazon has 0.8%. For comparison, Walmart, plus its subsidiary Sam's Club, has over
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by sib 9y ago
Wouldn't it have been a lot more magical if it had simply asked, "Would you like me to play it?" (knowing that you have a Spotify subscription) at the end of answering your question? Or, at least, for you to be able to say &q
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by sib 9y ago
That's an interesting example, given that there are plenty of people who pronounce our former President's name to rhyme with "rack"...
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by sib 9y ago
You may be interested in some history related to United Airlines [itself an agglomeration of many airlines], Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, Sikorsky Helicopters, and others, which all used to be part of the same organization. They were broken
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by sib 9y ago
No... People are willing to give up lots for low prices.
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by sib 9y ago
Poor item selection; very limited options for different quantities; inconvenient location; must pay for membership; crowded stores; long lines. From the customer point of view, Costco is pretty much the definition of competing on nothing bu
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by sib 9y ago
Well, there is the difference between this (Trump): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Trump_20... and this ("Hillary"): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia&
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by sib 9y ago
Sure, but, as (s)he said, (s)he drives 5-10K miles / year. For 10K miles, that's a difference of less than 100 gallons of gas per year, meaning less than $400 / year in gas for the Civic vs the Prius. ~$1 / day probably
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Wikipedia: Great Plains Shelterbelt(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sib 9y ago
Yup, I understand that. My point was that that's not a very accurate assumption in the vicinity of El Capitan :)
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by sib 9y ago
> Does it really make sense splitting ASR and NLP up into distinct concepts? While I understand in the past they have solved different problems, it's my understanding that to get accurate ASR, grammar files or corpus can be provided
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by sib 9y ago
Yes, it may, depending on the use case - so we will have to do a better job convincing users that there is value in allowing the use of location "at all times"...
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by sib 9y ago
"Spying on citizens of other countries" is pretty much the job description of every spy agency in every government around the world (and many add "spying on their own citizens" as well). We may not like it, but it's
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by sib 9y ago
I thought that terminal velocity for a human on Earth was about 120 miles/h. Seems like Wolfram doesn't take that into account. Just makes the horrifying fall even longer!
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by sib 9y ago
>> Customers are price-sensitive [with varying levels of sensitivity for varying aspects of the service] That is the source of price elasticity of demand. Customers are not identical. Some people value convenience of only checking one
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by sib 9y ago
The device is maintaining a short (<1 sec) buffer at all times. The device is Echo; Alexa is the cloud-side service, which is definitely not getting the audio until the wake-word is spotted and then streaming begins (backing up to the be
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by sib 9y ago
> If Uber raises [prices] 6%, the revenue Uber [receives] will decrease. You are assuming facts not in evidence. If you don't know Uber's price elasticity of demand, you can't predict that. It is likely that the number of
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by sib 9y ago
They are not recording (other than when the wake word has been detected, correctly or incorrectly.)
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by sib 9y ago
NLP quality is dependent on ASR quality (automated speech recognition, transforming audio into words) because you can't generally get meaning without words. ASR quality is dependent on audio quality (plus, of course, a bunch of big-dat
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by sib 9y ago
While this is true, in most cases, public transportation is funded at an even lower rate by fares / fees and more by general taxes.
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by sib 9y ago
Just a few thoughts: Presumably, people are less likely to spend as much time in their closets as in a kitchen or office, so they probably wouldn't use the full suite of Show capabilities there as much. The scale of the Show is probabl
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by sib 9y ago
Alexa is coming to cars (at least from Ford): https://www.geekwire.com/2017/ford-turning-cars-amazon-alexa...
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by sib 9y ago
Mobile operators can scan your SMS messages just as Google can scan Gmail (etc.)...
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by sib 9y ago
While the time between the launch of the Echo Look and the Echo Show was only a couple of weeks, it's not the case that it only took two weeks to spin up the Echo Show. These teams work in parallel for long periods of time; years in mo
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by sib 9y ago
I work in the world of video by day, but do lots of still image work as a hobby. Even in the world of photography, there is no Mac that edits/filters/transforms/renders 30-40-megapixel Raw images without very noticeable laten
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by sib 9y ago
Have you ever met a male person who was named Siri? I've not, but I've met multiple female people by that name.
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by sib 10y ago
To be specific, a "Realtor" is not a profession; it is a trademarked term. To be a "Realtor" one must be a member of the National Association of Realtors, which is a trade association. It is possible to be a "real e
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by sib 10y ago
Agreed - that is part of my own distaste for them...
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by sib 10y ago
It's one of the misunderstood pieces of scrum to think that burndown charts should be linear. If a team of 5 has established a velocity of 65 story points / 2-week sprint, and they accept 5, 13-point tasks for the next sprint, you

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