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    Comment #18015360

    Robovalley right? Is there still animo for this? I would love to invest in elderly care technology, especially AI for Alzheimers. Would this still be possible, or is it a big compa…

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    Comment #18002255

    Maybe he realized that his behavior would be against the new CoC. Maybe he had a good conversation with people he respects, where they confronted him with his behavior, and he was …

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    Comment #17975007

    The real world is hardly binary. Both the complaint may be valid, and part of a PR strategy.

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    Comment #17974994

    I meant "the best" for the advertisers, not necessarily for the users. It is possible to do this transparently and there are times when users may actively search such "ads" out (an…

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    Comment #17974505

    I do think that Google has data sharing with "hundreds of companies". These are not advertisers, these are ad companies. They recently updated to comply with GDPR. https://support.…

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    Comment #17937977

    Kill your fans.

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    Comment #17931636

    I hate how Xi Jinping is running China so strictly. The Russian Apartment Bombings was an inside job. Westerners should have no business in the Middle East.

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    Comment #17931544

    > Alex Jones will still be heard by his audience. Current audience. What about a new young audience? What about the part of the audience that wants to listen to him on Twitter? > T…

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    Comment #17931206

    Qanon is a Russian psyop and a bunch of unwitting agents.

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    Comment #17931194

    This may have something to do with: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-conspiracy-... I think the Russia investigation has unearthed links between conspiracy theorist…

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    Comment #17931127

    The Periscope video was the last straw. Jones was angry and ranting, because that journalist had claimed that his campaigning/efforts lead to Jones' ban on social networks. > Impor…

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    Comment #17930595

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    Comment #17786021

    Why? Just because you have active PR, your methods are now also flawed? What is the conflict of interest for a company doing or hiring a PR? Is it fraud or unethical to promote you…

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    Comment #17786006

    They actually reduced the average length of stay for knee replacement from 3.3 to 2.4 days. They verifiably saved costs of a middle-sized hospital of 10m$ a year. If we assume prof…

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    Comment #17785549

    > is likely just overfitting the existing data. I would be more careful with your assessment. Or you are overfitting to your limited 5-minute-understanding of what this does. Telli…

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    Comment #17785447

    This is more of a puffy PR piece for the IT supplier. The methods they use are very advanced mathematics / graph theory. If we take the modern usage of the word "AI", then this qua…

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    Comment #17621226

    I wonder if there is a deeper structure/nature to business growth and popularity, something akin to the Matthew effect [1] ("to everyone who has more will be given") or power laws.…

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    Comment #17597288

    Encryption while keeping the "shape"/"form" of the data intact. This way you can have secure third-party computation, without that third-party knowing exactly what data it is opera…

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    Comment #17597169

    > One of my random question is that what does Google gain by spending resources on developing course like this? Mindshare or more generally PR. Also to "collect" the talent on thei…

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    Comment #17578474

    This is what scares me about these stories. First kill any competition (go in debt if you need to) to become a giant. Then start enforcing (sometimes arbitrary or politicized) rule…

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