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Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by criddell on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:15PM (#19409589)
I've never understood the urge to archive all this old stuff. If you are somebody that thinks it's important to save as much of this stuff as we can, I'd love to have my opinion changed. The cost to save everything isn't trivial, but often it feels like the value is.
Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by etiam on Saturday March 16, 2019 @09:23PM (#19411568)
"Deep Learning" group.

https://plus.google.com/communities/112866381580457264725

Discussion as methods and questions emerged, often involving the pioneers of the field. LeCun, Bengio, Krizshevsky, Goodfellow, etc. Ranging from the days when people were starting to realize you could implement theses thing for a GPU instead of just CPU, to days when it's arguably rehabiliteted "A.I." as credible in the popular imagination and spawned a multi-billion dollar industry.

Admittedly it's the only thing I'm aware of on G+ which I'm anxious to see archived, but that's probably mostly for lack of looking. These are interesting times. It would be a shame if the records of them are lost just because we put them on a medium which will self-destruct in absence of active maintenance and then failed to put in the maintenance.

Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by criddell on Sunday March 17, 2019 @01:25PM (#19415106)
Even in that one community, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty terrible.
Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by hanniabu on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:16PM (#19409604)
It's better to have this information and it not be needed than to need it and not have it.
Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by Avamander on Saturday March 16, 2019 @10:47PM (#19411893)
The times the internet Archive has recovered a long lost manual for me after digging for a while I can't count on two hands. Anecdotally I know a lot of specific knowledge and even trustworthiness has gotten lost thanks to all the link- and torrent-rot and I don't find it okay, that's why I try to archive.
Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by nat8265639392 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @08:46PM (#19411435)
I agree in that I don’t understand what is important about this. But as someone interested in history knowing that stuff has been thrown out because of this same mindset hundreds of years ago is upsetting. People 2000 years from now might study the google+ years at university lol.
Re:Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has ... by ourmandave on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:10PM (#19409952)
Next week, on an all new episode of Data Hoarders...

#A&EruListening?