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Re:What Facebook Knows by jboggan on Sunday June 17, 2012 @05:47PM (#4123937)
I'm nearly salivating at the thought of writing graph algorithms at that scale . . . and actually having the outcome mean something and be acted upon in a timely fashion. It sounds like a dream job to me. That scale and depth of information is a very powerful tool, no doubt, and it should be wielded for a good purpose. This article at least encourages me that people are thinking beyond the bottom line on these issues. Awesome.
Re:What Facebook Knows by jman1 on Monday June 18, 2012 @05:38AM (#4125670)
Agreed on the salivation and the opportunity in terms of a dream job. But to think that just because the data science team thinks more about social science than Facebook prOducts the corporation will change its tune and stop being creepy is naive or myopic at best.