Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]

Post by tormeh » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 11:42 AM UTC

EpicEng wrote: post #38

rtpg wrote: post #34

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This is highly dependent on your circle of friends. It's much more enjoyable when you're following people who are doing interesting things An RSS reader wouldn't be compelling if you're just subscribed to Buzzfeed, after all.

Well, you're probably not wrong. 99% of my ~400 "friends" are people I knew in high school who I haven't seen in 15 years. I keep in contact with my actual friends, but not via FB.

Post by SlalomStallone » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #61

EpicEng wrote: post #38

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Well, you're probably not wrong. 99% of my ~400 "friends" are people I knew in high school who I haven't seen in 15 years. I keep in contact with my actual friends, but not via FB.

Unsubscribe from their feeds. Unsubscribing, I've basically ignored most of my facebook friends. It's great.

Post by madaxe_again » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

estefan wrote: post #62

madaxe_again wrote: post #58

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I met him around about this time - we were working on a variety of gigs in Cambridge, and ended up in a secret society house (don't ask me which, I honestly don't remember) at some point in a night out... someone might know - go in, up stairs, big withdrawing room with a pair of chesterfields perpendicular to a fireplace, wood panelling, that sort of thing. Remember shooting the shit with him about this social networ…

> Not sure why I'm telling this tale Maybe to brag that you've hung out with him? That's not meant to be snarky. It's the same explanation for why people want the autograph of someone famous - to try to convince other people they know high status, powerful people, and by association they are one themselves. We are often unaware of why we do what we do... or we tell people one reason and keep the real reason to oursel…

Post by cymetica » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:18 PM UTC

rajacombinator wrote: post #45

cymetica wrote: post #22

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If I can copy and paste what you're thinking, then yes. Otherwise, nope. Too hard to tell what's underlying the code in the case of a search engine, machine learning or artificial intelligence system. Large difference between the code behind intelligent algorithms and text entry boxes with DB calls. BBSs, TheWell, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, what's next? Fill in the b…

Actually what Google does is fairly trivial and not based on "artificial intelligence" ...

Post by sjcsjc » Thu, Apr 30, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

estefan wrote: post #62

madaxe_again wrote: post #58

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I met him around about this time - we were working on a variety of gigs in Cambridge, and ended up in a secret society house (don't ask me which, I honestly don't remember) at some point in a night out... someone might know - go in, up stairs, big withdrawing room with a pair of chesterfields perpendicular to a fireplace, wood panelling, that sort of thing. Remember shooting the shit with him about this social networ…

> Not sure why I'm telling this tale Maybe to brag that you've hung out with him? That's not meant to be snarky. It's the same explanation for why people want the autograph of someone famous - to try to convince other people they know high status, powerful people, and by association they are one themselves. We are often unaware of why we do what we do... or we tell people one reason and keep the real reason to oursel…