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MoneyGuidePro for individuals, instead of just financial advisors.
A usb-c wall charger with inbuilt hdmi and usb-a. Single device with prongs and ports.
A way to use Mechanical Turk from outside the US. I've needed it with every client I ever worked with, and I need it now and know a dozen companies who do. CrowdFlower has a de facto monopoly on the outside of the US supply and charges an enormous premium for it - enough to turn off most of them. I certainly don't want to pay several thousand a month for the right to submit jobs, although I was ok with the 25% premiu…
Out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I'm intrigued by platforms like MT, but have never had a real use myself.
For example, you might have 100,000 products plus another 5,000 new ones listed per month. Your human error rate might be 3%. When a product arrives, its buyer (the corporate person responsible for signing on the brand) gives it a category and it shows up on the site. So 3% of the new products are erroneously categorised by their buyer.
You give X human votes per product, say, 10. "Which of these categories applies to this product?"
If the votes agree with each other, you can just input that as the category. If there's a split, you can feed those products to a more open ended question like "what category is this product" and use that as a starting point for either renaming the categories, finding a new category, or tagging: if it's a 50/50 split, you can just tag the product with both categories.
This is all automated and used to cost me around $200 per 5,000 products.
Another example might be training a data set for a machine learning algorithm. You send a data set to be trained by Turk and use it as training/test sets. I'm keeping this one deliberately vague for now as AFAIK we are the only ones in our space doing this and I don't even want to mention the space due to a relatively smart competitor.
As a hypothetical example, you might be trying to predict the category from the description, gender, picture features, buyer and brand, and the above categorisation tasks can be used to train the algorithms you're testing out.
1) More high quality news analysis content. Think NASA Earth Observatory, The Information, or the best articles you've ever read, and put them behind a paywall. Consistently making top notch content is hard, but I suspect it can be easier if writers are paid good wages to explore their interests and the news industry decouples itself from advertising. I'd pay for it, and I suspect that over time, enough people would.…
I am working on #2. There has to be some sort of incentive for the mentors for this to be sustainable. As a mentee what can you provide to the mentor? What do you think will make this relationship be sustainable?
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Where should I sign up for the "privacy-respecting, no-advertising" facebook plan? Twitter have one of those, too?
Nope, but google is trying. See google contributor and youtube red. Start there.
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How do they region lock it? Can't you just make a US business entity and pay through that, if the origin of payment is the issue?
I could, but it's time consuming and I'd have to deal with the IRS. By not operating in either the US or the EU, I save myself a lot of administrative trouble and potential tax liabilities.
A way to use Mechanical Turk from outside the US. I've needed it with every client I ever worked with, and I need it now and know a dozen companies who do. CrowdFlower has a de facto monopoly on the outside of the US supply and charges an enormous premium for it - enough to turn off most of them. I certainly don't want to pay several thousand a month for the right to submit jobs, although I was ok with the 25% premiu…
I've used Fancy Hands ( https://www.fancyhands.com/ ) before and had good results with it, though it's probably not really price-competitive with MT; I paid about $15 for a quite large amount of scraping work that would've been annoying to write software to do.
1. A worthy Google search competitor. Preferably open, open-source, federated, respecting privacy. 2. A platform where scientists can discuss publications. It should be a "home" for every paper. Of course, also open, run by a nonprofit organization, or perhaps even federated. 3. A good open (xkcd-927-defying) standard for chat that everybody will use. (Why can we have this for email, but not for chat?)
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Like the pyra/pandora? https://pyra-handheld.com/
I just wish that thing wasn't so much money. It's definitely worth it, lots of engineering behind it. It's still just a large chunk of change.