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Missing Oracle Cloud which has a massive GPU footprint - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/

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The bar raiser decides “hire for Amazon at X level and role” and then the manager decides if they want that person on their team or not. If it’s a hire decision but manager decline…

The reason they don’t push this is because Stadia, like a lot of things, is just a side project at google. It does nothing to drive significant new ad revenue, so it’s never going …

What is different this time is cloud computing / always connected devices. This enables easy collection and access to enormous amounts of training (and continuous retraining) data …

It is an ROI decision. Almost everyone on the planet now carries around an echo-equivalent in their pocket all day, that also happens to have video, GPS, text and call data, and as…

There isn't though. This is just voice control of existing things people are already doing through Amazon. This is data they already have. Is data inherently evil? I don't understa…

I doubt they want to start a cell company, more likely it is to have favorable terms for embedding 4G into Echo devices, making car and portable echos possible. They have done this…

I think its really #4 - cloud is still a minor side bet for them, something investors are expecting them to try to work at but that the core company doesn't really care about. its …

Google is the new 2005 Microsoft

Hotdog or not hotdog

They acquired Android. Waymo and Tensorflow are cool r&d but not businesses.

The real reason is why any large enterprise does something unusual: “it has always been like that”.

Amazon is not a monopoly, Google is. Retail is ENORMOUS and even in the area of online retail, which is still only a minor segment of all retail sales, Amazon still only has someth…

gold is actually used to do things, outside of jewelry its used in various industrial applications (for example, the computer you are using right now). so there is a floor to the v…

Your numbers on US online spending are way off. US online spending was about $400B in 2016. In 2017 Amazon alone has posted about 120B in revenue (low 100s minus AWS) year to date …

The OP that I was replying to was insinuating that FB is collecting audio as training data to create AI models like the ones you are talking about. I was pointing out that raw audi…

Its only useful to train if they also have the transcript by a human. Eavesdropping conversations and having armies of people transcribing them seems like a very expensive and ille…

This is a ridiculous standard for an employer. He has at will employment, they can fire him and he can also leave if he dislikes their diversity programs. Regardless of his thesis,…

Software has always been about copying features, since the very beginning of the industry. With a software product there is always only a short window of having something innovativ…

talent is only ever one ingredient. why doesnt google dominate the cloud? why couldnt microsoft pull off a smartphone?

This enables them to very quickly scale out AmazonFresh, which to date is only in about a dozen areas, to every single area that WholeFoods is in. If you have not used AmazonFresh …

Because land is an asset, there is no getting around that.

1) They do make money (profit) and they also re-invest 2) About 20% of the S&P 500 companies do not pay a dividend, are they failures? For example, Apple did not pay a dividend unt…

Tech has probably increased 20-25% YoY, as it has for a while. Alexa and AWS especially are basically hiring as fast as they can get people to move to Seattle. More remote offices …