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kalkat

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About kalkat

Cofounder & CEO @ Frrole and Humantic AI. Building a layer of intelligence for the whole internet.

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    Comment #27690361

    They haven't said why, but the reason seems commercial and not technical. Unless a service is bringing in millions or maybe tens of millions of $$ in revenue, a big company like IB…

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    IBM Watson is shutting down its personality insights API

    It seems that last month, IBM has announced the sunset of its popular personality insights API. Message is posted here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/personality-insights

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    Comment #15205489

    thanks mate!

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    Comment #15197837

    you would be surprised that people have managed to work with a lot less ;-)

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    Comment #15197829

    "this sort of analysis" is a bit wide ranging, so can't comment, because some 'such' analysis might not sit pretty with twitter. But "this" is in line with policies, we in fact wor…

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    Comment #15197818

    yes it does. More about filters in the api docs here: http://api.frrole.com/v4/docs/user-profile (warning: docs not fully updated yet. usual development to documentation lag:))

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    Comment #15194227

    it relies on twitter data a good bit for personality insights Peter, so people you tried are not twitter users perhaps? try a couple of random twitter users, don't have to be popul…

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    Comment #15194206

    Thanks Ryan, this is not fully baked yet but def. not half-baked either. It will do what it is supposed to do. Instagram is coming, and linkedin too. Soon, very!

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    Comment #15193595

    yup just a bit of sentiment analysis, mood analysis, personality analysis, predicting how you would behave as an employee, as as an irate customer, determining your demographics, y…

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    Comment #15193537

    This is a demo app. But yes, we should. point taken. thx.

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    Comment #15193527

    Ha. Funny. But obv. no:) Maybe try a few that you don't share here..

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    Comment #15192631

    Some things will be off Alex, a lot of it is algorithmic construction. Try it now, sometimes it takes more than a few seconds for the full profile to be constructed (if there is a …

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    Comment #15192609

    The idea is to use "public" social data to build a secondary layer of intelligence that software products can use to personalize / be more consumer aware (primary layer is their ca…

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    Comment #5388343

    Like all things, it would have some good use and bad use. But technology WILL evolve, and many people would adopt. It ultimately settles at a healthy balance. In general though, pr…

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    Comment #3638897

    Ah, the perils of "having to" listen to the feedback! There is absolutely nothing irresponsible about your idea. You are not the one terming something good and bad. If the data say…

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    Comment #3519185

    You have to be there when the program runs. That is a criteria. Otherwise, location should not be a problem, I know of at least one startup here from India with India based co-foun…

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    Comment #3485271

    I agree some and disagree some. Regarding M and N, I don't think they can control spam any more than m and n, given that M and N are going to be super-sets of root domains of m MUL…

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    Comment #3484462

    Yup, have heard that one a couple of times already, we are going to take care of that one VERY soon. Plan to aggregate tweets at country/global level too going forward, so have to …

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    Comment #3484298

    Montreal is up in the next release.

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    Comment #3484273

    And yes, about geo location, that is built in. But if you match neither the city nor the country, then it takes you to a global default.

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    Comment #3484252

    thanks. Retweets is just one rule. Pretty much like google uses back links as an indicator, but has 200-300 other rules, we use retweets as an indicator but have 100+ rules probabl…