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Re:Learn Python 3 the Hard Way on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:12AM (#13724306)

If you are doing AI, machine learning, it's all Python. Other language support yes, but python is it. Alexa does not support Go.

> https://www.tensorflow.org/

Re:GitLab Database Incident – Live Report on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:53AM (#13541128)

This stuff is complicated. No one gets that, no one.

Re:Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor on Saturday January 14, 2017 @09:30PM (#13401991)

Sounds OK by me :-)

> Paypal founder Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor

> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/08/cannabis-in...

Re:Amsterdam’s coffeeshops are closing on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:06PM (#13368984)

And that is why San Francisco and LA are going to EXPLODE with tourist. Snapchat central, here we come. The Kids are running the show now. Amsterdam was cool, but that's kind of last year.

LA is rocking! :-)

Re:Update on the Swift Project Lead on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:02PM (#13368947)

Hmmm, going from someone with a pretty big Wikipedia page, to someone with just a linkedin entry. Guess it's fine. But Apple seems to be in a bit of a tail spin as of late.

Sure they'll do amazing.

Re:Renewing Medium’s focus on Thursday January 05, 2017 @08:35AM (#13326969)

Money goes where it's treated the nicest. So where is it going now?

Re:Show HN: A Virtual NYC Snow Globe - Built with aframe.io on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:16PM (#13324411)

Well, that's the coolest thing today for sure. WOW! :-)

Seems to make building VR worlds super simple.

Re:Alexa: Amazon's Operating System on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:11PM (#13322585)

Was at an Alexa meetup. One of the senior Alexa developers was speaking. What was said blew my mind:

We want you to use conversational UI, on any device, Apple's, MSFT, Google, anyone you like. We think in the end, you'll have the best experience with Echo.

How often does a mega tech company encourage you to use the competitions products?

Think Amazon hit out of the park. Hey Google, just does not cut it for me.

Alexa, and that sultry voice, just no comparisons. (IMHO).

Re:Police seek Amazon Echo data in murder case on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:35AM (#13264080)

Alexa only waits for the wake word "Alexa." It would cost more money than God in hardware to store every thing Alexa ever heard. She saves you're requests. And shows you those request in the Alexa App. And you can also delete it if you wish.

There is no data for the police to have, because beyond requests, there is no data.

Unless someone knows more about this than Amazon is telling us?

Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:34PM (#13180800)

As a New Yorker, all we're hearing here is LA, LA, LA. Just a heads-up.

Smoke a joint in NYC, spend a night in jail. Smoke a joint in LA, change the world. How I look at it all.

We got Brooklyn, and that's about it.