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Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by michaelt »

kyle_t wrote: post #4

I am curious what Bill Gates (or anyone who doesn't necessarily have an immediate profit making venture to promote i.e an actor) hopes to achieve with an AMA? I can't imagine they are very much fun after the first dozen questions. Promoting philanthropy to a wider audience? Bringing the spotlight on a specific cause? Its awesome that someone as busy and important as Bill Gates is willing to take the time to do this w…

Did you hope to achieve much personal gain from making this post here on HN?

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by sushirain »

throwaway_yy2Di wrote: post #9

Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background): http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 and more: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here

These are the books I found there:

* The Blue Death, http://www.amazon.com/The-Blue-Death-Disease-Disaster/dp/B00...

* Principles of Neural Science (a canonical textbook)

* Immunobiology

* Genome

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by dmunoz »

Spittie wrote: post #23
Arjuna wrote: post #20

For those that aren't aware, check out the "/r/tabled" subreddit [1]. From the official description: "a subreddit for tables of recent threads from places such as... /r/IAmA, /r/InternetAMA, /r/AMA, /r/AskReddit, /r/AskScience" It makes things nice to read. Of course, Bill Gates' new AMA will not be "tabled" yet, but as an example (and in case you missed it), here is his AMA from February 2013 [2]. [1] http://www.red…

Check out http://topiama.com (It was posted here some time ago, I have no connection with that site), I find it has a very nice interface. Like r/tabled, his new iAmA it's not here, but to give the same example, here's his old one: http://www.topiama.com/r/911/im-bill-gates-cochair-of-the-bi...

Thanks for the reminder about topiama. I knew something like this existed, but forgot where. I was thinking recently about writing my own as a quick pet project. Still might, just for fun.

It's actually a bit surprising to me that reddit themselves have not written an IAMA question-answer view. Celebrity AMAs have become a pretty big draw for reddit, but browsing them from the default view sucks. Perhaps they view it like they do the mobile clients (the community does them better), but it would be nice to have something native to reddit for this behaviour.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by Schweigi »

frik wrote: post #10

He added an link to a Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZnmpDrjtDc Interesting art style and that his assistants choose an old-school method to animate the movie. That gives the "information at your fingertip" a new meaning ;)

His thank you video is hilarious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynQ5ZhxYAss :)

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by jhartmann »

m_ke wrote: post #27

Did he really just say that deep learning started at Microsoft?

I saw that and maybe its stretching it a little bit, but I know Patrice Simard was involved in this sort of research relatively early (he started at Microsoft in 99, and worked at Bell Labs before.) I would not be surprised if there were some other people there that were doing this sort of research even earlier.

There is actually some very high quality ground breaking research that comes out of Microsoft, they just have had problems making it into products traditionally.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by rokhayakebe »

Aoyagi wrote: post #6

Not having a Reddit account, this makes me want to create one and ask Gates if he's going to protect us from the power of the cloud . By "us" I mean "people who don't really trust the cloud".

I have one I use five times per year. Today, I cannot login.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Post by frik »

Arjuna wrote: post #20

For those that aren't aware, check out the "/r/tabled" subreddit [1]. From the official description: "a subreddit for tables of recent threads from places such as... /r/IAmA, /r/InternetAMA, /r/AMA, /r/AskReddit, /r/AskScience" It makes things nice to read. Of course, Bill Gates' new AMA will not be "tabled" yet, but as an example (and in case you missed it), here is his AMA from February 2013 [2]. [1] http://www.red…

The today's AMA is "tabled": http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/1xjhm7/table_iama_he...
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