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mromaine

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Joined: Wed, Sep 09, 2009, 5:40 AM UTC
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Public activity: 19 items
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About mromaine

Born in Boston to an American father and Japanese mother. Lived in the North East U.S., Tokyo, and London before finally settling in Tokyo from ages 6 to 14. Attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Brown University, and received a Masters in music from Stanford University before returning to Tokyo in 2002 to join Sony. Started in R&D studying multi-channel audio streaming applications, moved to consumer product development, and then joined the Corporate Technology Strategy Group when Howard Stringer was appointed CEO. In 2007 I founded Majides, Inc. - a Web-Services development company and unification brand for incubation projects MiiStation, KiraKiraJin, and 2kurabe. MiiStation was reviewed in the WallStreet Journal and awarded a Time.com Best 50 Website in 2007. Currently developing Gengo (http://gengo.com), the most efficient human-powered translation platform with an API on the web.

Recent public activity

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16 Strange Datasets for Machine Learning
Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 5:17 AM UTC
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Top Crowdsourcing Companies for Tech Solutions
Tue, Jul 03, 2018, 5:40 AM UTC
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The Future of Chatbots
Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 5:58 AM UTC
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How AI is being used in journalism
Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 5:48 AM UTC
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Datasets for Machine Learning
Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC
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The Best 25 Datasets for Natural Language Processing
Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:28 AM UTC
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Tokyo’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Startup – Gengo
Mon, May 13, 2013, 3:12 PM UTC
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Comment #3299884
Japan - only the 3rd largest economy in the world, gets grouped with "(Rest of) Asia/Pacific", while India, Africa, UK and Canada get their own spots ...? :)

Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 2:47 PM UTC
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Comment #2599448
Hi - are you sure about not receiving a reply? I'm looking at the Zendesk ticket and it shows that we've responded within 8 hours. Update: Now I see why - you mistyped your email a…

Mon, May 30, 2011, 2:21 PM UTC
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Comment #2594321
Full disclosure: I'm the CTO of myGengo I would also add that because translation is core to our business, we would never deprecate the translation API :)

Sat, May 28, 2011, 12:16 PM UTC
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Geeks on a Plane South America - You can't go wrong, so go now
Thu, May 19, 2011, 2:26 AM UTC
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Importance of regular, consistent release schedules in webdev.
Fri, Feb 18, 2011, 11:14 AM UTC
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How myGengo Scaled Up Their Servers (a real startup's story)
Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 11:33 PM UTC
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Comment #2115991
two words - "opportunity cost".

Tue, Jan 18, 2011, 3:00 PM UTC
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Comment #1553029
this has got to be one of the most beautifully set blog posts I've read recently.

Tue, Jul 27, 2010, 11:05 PM UTC
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Just launched: myGengo Translate API. Plug human translation into your app
Mon, Apr 26, 2010, 4:26 AM UTC
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Comment #1267261
(full disclaimer - I work at myGengo) myGengo ( http://mygengo.com ) tests translators and does quality-checking for multiple levels to ensure customers are happy with the output. …

Thu, Apr 15, 2010, 8:02 AM UTC
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Comment #1267249
Funny - why do you expose all emails on your site?

Thu, Apr 15, 2010, 7:51 AM UTC
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Comment #1158056
If you're dissatisfied by machine translation, you might consider myGengo - http://mygengo.com - billed as "Mechanical Turk for Translations" - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/11…

Mon, Mar 01, 2010, 4:38 AM UTC