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So he would end up with hundreds of millions in his own pocket still?

TikTok isn't social media

It is the new TV with infinite channels to switch by

Facebook will never be able to match it unless it reinvents itself.

This is not about US domestic politics.

Will the US government use FB/Twitter to delete the supporters' posts for the candidates it doesn't like?

Would you categorize Facebook/Twitter then, as the tool for US government to influence geopolitics on its behalf?

The last few strongholds I see with C++ is probably game development. To crack into gaming industry, C++ is still a must-have skill.

But TBH, I really don't want to use C++ if the circumstance allows. The language spec is just so overtly complex that feels self-defeating, it is harder and harder to justify use it in the first place.

I doubt that is the case.

Look up how Japanese companies are treated in late 80s and 90s.

When one felt under threat, all rules will be forgone.

I don't think South Korean companies will have such concerns.

Albums in Kpop world is a different thing.

Think of buying albums more like a kickstarter fundraising for fans to support their idols. The photo book or the chance to get a ticket for a fan meeting is arguably a bigger draw than that CD itself.

In fact, what I know, a lot of sales, especially oversee ones, those albums are not even physically sent back to the country where they originated at all. It is just a gesture to help their idols rank better on the music shows.

Even Taylor Swift releases the full new Album on youtube the first day, which is unthinkable even 5 years ago.

I think the industry already accept it is the way forward.

If you use Google video search (from the search engine itself) often enough, you will many even majority of the times, the top N results are most likely not from Youtube, even though that is what I want.

No creating a competitor isn't easy. Profitable video hosting is trade secret still, and even with Google's technology and scale it becomes barely sustainable.

This ain't mind-blowing by any means IMO.

If the said company has unknown track record, then doing business with them is risky.

What if the company goes out of business in near future? Or get acquired (actually I think A lot of infra companies's end goal is to get acquired)? What if they raise the price out of sudden? How extensible/customizable their solution is?

The trust is the key here. If I am in the position to buy software from somewhere and cost isn't the primary concern, the money would goes to a known/stable figure in the industry.

> This feature was rarely used

Seriously? Without the subtitles from fans, I can't really count how many great content I will miss, especially for relative niche languages.

Pretty interesting.

The few shots learning capacity is very much there. I would imagine Chatbot can now really get somewhat correctable thus usable, by continuously providing examples to the model.

For real.

But the title itself is something worth a moment of reflection.

Doctoral programs are supposed to be scarce, selective and of high profile. Now they are being treated as a service that can be requested and compared against.

Bitcoin isn't big at all. It haven't made relevant changes to people's everyday life.

Nah, company only manufacture in cheap countries.

Already happened. My company has sent notice to us that international hired employees are preferentially located to Canada and other sites instead of US, since it is difficult to get a visa here.

People are selfish, so I don't blame them for want to close the door and keep the outsiders outside so they can have a bigger share of the pie.

But don't expect to see that happen either, companies nowadays are much more powerful than individuals and they are very nimble, they will go to places where cost is lower, this won't change a bit, it is in their blood.

So to immigrants coming to US, don't really put much hope in spending decades waiting to get permit to not in living in fear of throwing out. Doesn't worth it. And the resentment towards immigrants is worsening everyday, unless you happen to have certain skin tone. So earn your bucks, and save more, when the time comes take your life and skill elsewhere, life is too short to just wait in vain and hope for the best, act swiftly and you will be happier ;)

Unintended? Hardly. The current administration has pushed hard for some time now, to encourage women to "go back to family".

http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2016-02/24/c_1118142363.ht...

Amazing the internet can empower an individual blog post to force the previously most formidable startup's CEO to resign.

Fear this inter connected world. Fear the power of language.

I am pretty catching up-to-date with this field, and I didn't really get my DL(AI though it is pointless buzzword) news from media.

As far as I can remember, most important research from OpenAI is InfoGAN. Others feel somewhat below outstanding. Their open source record on the other hand is pretty solid, gym/universe and various implementations and testing of existing models does live up to the openness in their name.

OpenAI is a weird animal. Their research seems generally less impactful than rest of the top tier labs out there. But they do have great people on the team. Is it because their engineering infrastructure is subpar?

I believe NHS doesn't use pirated software, right?

The residents are blocking the construction to protect their real estate value. Nice move from the government, however I don't know how would this go through because there will surely be some intensive lobbying from the NIMBYs' side.

Because I don't want to take the phones everywhere with me when I am at home?

Here is a crazy idea: What didn't Amazon make this its own Nintendo Switch? A stand with a detachable tablet? Won't this be even better?

But Amazon's products are cheap. Echo first gets out, it is merely 99 dollars, and at the time, a vanilla bluetooth speaker worth that much. It is about accessibility.

But computers hate ambiguity.

What makes a language scientific? Apparently, modern science is born in the land where people don't bother to persuade others that their language, by nature, is more scientific than the rest.

The push of such argument is inherently nationalistic than 'scientific', ironically.

> Previous ML methods usually resulted in models, or formulas, that were small enough to "grasp" intuitively.

Which is not true in practice. SVM in reality is an instance based method, with thousands to 10 thousands high-dimensional vectors as its 'parameters'. Random forests, which is famous for its ease of interpretability is no easy meal either when you end up with 100s of trees with outrageous branches. Not mention that real world model are embarrassingly complex ensemble of smaller but still complex models.

Agree with you. I think what I need to make it more clear, is DNN puts little assumption on data. It usually consumes it as raw pixels, in case of images.

The architecture of NN itself is the biggest assumption here, as it is how it will be used to process the data. But they those operators are usually generic, a lot of them just umbrella operators for matrix multiplications + non-linearity in between.