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DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by wmeredith »

tdkl wrote: post #5
iamdave wrote: post #2

Slightly contrarian, or maybe not-but is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you? Algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own), telling me what I ought to buy (trust me, Amazon if I wanted it-I'd eit…

> is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you Yes, because they're not doing it for us, but for themselves, investors and customers (advertisers) fueled by our data.

This is the real problem. Zuck and co are a lot of things. Words like benevolent, disinterested, and unbiased aren't on that list of things.

Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by anfedorov »

wslh wrote: post #28
mandeepj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Facebook Messenger doesn't have end-to-end encryption, it is stored in Facebook.

Not just stored: http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-...

Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by newjersey »

iamdave wrote: post #2

Slightly contrarian, or maybe not-but is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you? Algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own), telling me what I ought to buy (trust me, Amazon if I wanted it-I'd eit…

>algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own)

Absolutely! At least give me an option (even if it is buried nineteen pages beneath about:config) to switch to a simplified reverse chronological stream. Until this happens, I've in followed everyone on Facebook. If you didn't send something specifically to me, then no I definitely didn't see it. (:

Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by amelius »

iamdave wrote: post #2

Slightly contrarian, or maybe not-but is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you? Algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own), telling me what I ought to buy (trust me, Amazon if I wanted it-I'd eit…

What scares me about this is the "bubble" it creates, see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

(even mentions Facebook's news-stream)

Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by morgante »

iamdave wrote: post #2

Slightly contrarian, or maybe not-but is anyone else sort of fatigued with social media trying it's hardest to do it all for you? Algorithmic timelines telling me what happened while I was gone (trust me, twitter...I would have gotten to it eventually), prioritizing what shows up (trust me facebook, I do a very good job hiding content on my own), telling me what I ought to buy (trust me, Amazon if I wanted it-I'd eit…

> I have no mistakes that these features are probably loved by some, maybe even most, but more and more

Count me in the camp that loves them.

I don't want to spend hours a day keeping up with social activity. Facebook does a great job of giving me a quick summary of everything going on in my friends' lives by sorting through all the drivel algorithmically.

Re: DeepText: Facebook's text understanding engine

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Post by School-Cotton »

goldenkey wrote: post #6
gvurrdon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recommendations, algorithmic timelines and so on are indeed a bit of a nuisance. Similarly, Google Now is annoying me a lot at the moment but I can't use my watch fully without turning it on.

Google Now kept creepily insisting I was on my way home and kept calculating directions day after day..Even after disabling this directions to home feature, it still killed my phones battery life, so as omnitious as everyone likes to say Google is, they still had to have my phone do the ML cycles. Bah! Keep it all on your server Google! protesters yell 'Take it off your servers Google!' heh.. :-)

How do you know the battery drain was caused by CPU usage, as opposed to something like network?
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