PHISHING SCAM: Calling all machine learning experts

Posted by phishingscamdie on Friday March 16, 2012 @12:38AM
from the self-post dept.

The post "Calling all machine learning experts (principalcomponentswanted.com)" is obviously either a phishing scam or a job application scam. This company must be a joke since it recruits anonymously with no pride. This is a guaranteed way to get sub-par candidates. Nobody with any reasonable level of talent would want to work for or with others who would fall for such a scam.

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Re:PHISHING SCAM: Calling all machine learning experts by notacylon on Friday March 16, 2012 @12:53AM (#3712028)

Nothing about that posting screams phishing or scam. This is very normal for companies trying to keep a low profile before launch. They've provided enough information that would appeal to a candidate interested in machine learning.

* product details : bringing machine learning to the masses...The first application of our technology is to battle fraud online.

* technical details : Our system uses a combination of supervised classification algorithms, anomaly detection, and good ol'-fashioned feature engineering to ferret out the bad guys, all running on top of open-source tools like Hadoop, HDFS, MongoDB, Vowpal Wabbit, and d3.js.

* funding situation : We're fresh out of this summer's YCombinator batch, raised funding from top angel

* team info : Our team includes two former CTOs, the tech lead of Android voice input, and the tech lead of Google's A/B test analysis framework and IP geolocation teams.

If I wasn't already working on something interesting I'd jump on this.

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