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Yesterday I mentioned vodka to my wife in Facebook Messenger and a few minutes later she saw a vodka advertisement on her timeline. Obviously Messenger will never include end to end encryption.
edit - I meant to say even if they had end-to-end encryption then your text would still need to be decrypted so that other user can read it.
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Know those little emails that Facebook sends you throughout the day? I've turned most of mine off, but I still like to know when people mention me, or get a page update. Well, I figured out today that when Facebook has these, it doesn't necessarily send them to you right away. Instead it waits until it looks like you've bailed off the site to do something else. Then you get an email notification -- drawing you back i…
I don't use facebook, but couldn't that also be an optimization? Like don't send the user email notifications if they're already on the site where they can see the # of notifications?
Then, once I'm away from the computer for 30-60 seconds or so (I'm sure they have a system training for this), I get the email notification -- even if the original back-and-forth occurred an hour ago. The timing of when I get the email has nothing at all to do with when the event occurred. It's completely dependent on my interaction with Facebook. Many times, it takes so long, I'm usually thinking "Wow! I wonder what else X had to say?" but I click over and it's the same damned thing I already interacted with.
Are they going to open source it so that everyone else can use DeepText?
They still have their business advantage intact: they have the data and the awesome infrastructure.
Fun that you guys can train a neural net to deduce what I like better than me, but as they said at the CCC conference, everyone has to decide for themselves how close they are with their machines (though that was in the context of taking your laptop to the toilet, in context of leaving it alone unattended).
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When all you have is a machine learning classifier, everything looks like a classification problem.
Heh yeah I wrote about this a while back - http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/facebooks-categorial-impera... But you add human intelligence to this kind of thing and it starts getting creepily accurate much of the time if you're looking to promote certain behaviors, expose others, or what have you.
Yesterday I mentioned vodka to my wife in Facebook Messenger and a few minutes later she saw a vodka advertisement on her timeline. Obviously Messenger will never include end to end encryption.
are you serious? They had to decrypt text so that your wife can read it and that is where they started displaying vodka ads. edit - I meant to say even if they had end-to-end encryption then your text would still need to be decrypted so that other user can read it.
Is there a way for us to play with it? Or are they just bragging?
I wonder if this is in response to Google's open sourcing of Parsey McParseface: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/05/announcing-syntax...