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True. No matter what their intention is, they are doing the right thing. I don't like that DL framework controlled by Google like what they do with Android. This would probably motivate Facebook/MSFT to develop a shared intermediate representation for DL frameworks, that would benefit so many people.
Re:Lu Ban's axe and working with your Chinese suppliers on Friday September 01, 2017 @08:15PM (#15153346)
Yeah...Baidu/Tencent/Alibaba pays engineers REALLY WELL, comparing to the local standard.

Software engineering are already the best paid job category[1], outpacing finance, for Chinese university graduates, as the best profession to go to. I would say that is not the case here in US, where engineers are well paid, but the still far from the envy of everyone, which would be lawyers and doctors.

1. http://www.chinanews.com/sh/2016/05-16/7871331.shtml (in Chinese though)

Side notes: It is pretty interesting to read those articles try to analyze Chinese or East Asian people in general as they are machines from the same factory tagged with serial number. I cannot see how that could give you really insightful conclusions that generalize to 1.4 Billion people.

Re:Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1B Video Bet on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:05PM (#15144747)
I have no moral string attached as to which companies and their services to choose from, because it will eventually backfire and virtue signaling is not my thing.
Re:DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @05:39AM (#15123148)
Just tried with the golem.de article:

Google Translate:

> Better than Google and Microsoft - the German company DeepL is committed to translation services. DeepL uses a novel architecture of neural networks and uses a supercomputer with 5.1 petaflops. By the same company, the service comes Linguee who has already made with translations of individual words or phrases a name. Texts translated by humans are used for translations in order to provide better results.

DeepL:

> Better than Google and Microsoft - this is the goal that DeepL, a German company, has set itself, at least for translation services. DeepL uses a novel architecture of neural networks and relies on a supercomputer with 5.1 petaflops. The Linguee service, which has already made a name for itself with translations of individual words or groups of words, comes from the same company. In doing so, human-translated texts are used for translations in order to deliver better results.

I think the DeepL version makes more sense here, but I am not a German reader so I might be off.