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Hope my founding team read this post! The bar to run a company is so high these days that you can't settle for anything mediocre! Also, if you have a product market fit in 2021, consider yourself lucky and focus on scaling it. It is getting very difficult to find a niche where you can scale as you would in 2013.
This is the problem in many emerging economies in SE Asia. Just because many people are struggling to arrange their daily meals, Governments get into socialist mode and taxes anything which does not classify as bare necessity. Sadly, it is a vicious loop and these economies are not modernizing enough at a rapid pace despite so much talent waiting for an opportunity.
What is the accuracy level you are seeing for your AI? What is the Data Review Service? Does it involve manual verification at your end?
Re:Flair: A simple framework for natural language processing on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:22AM (#18807263)
I like Flair for three reasons:

- Easy to use

- Developers are very active

- State-of-the-art results using approaches that are easy to understand and works well for most of text classification tasks

Re:The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:31AM (#18618795)
I agree with you 100% and if you analyze the comments on HN everytime Google decides to mess around with their IM, I have seen similar sentiment around Gtalk. I was a regular user of Gtalk during college days 10 years ago and was pissed when they merge/transition them into hangouts. It is a poor product management decision driven by Google's philosophy of capitalizing the next big trend in the internet industry ignoring the preferences of their users.
Re:Send Noncompete Agreements Back to the Middle Ages on Thursday December 06, 2018 @05:35AM (#18616857)
NCs are a legacy management technique that needs to be replaced with continuous innovation, better work culture and a mentality to innovate or die!
Re:Bytedance said to be valued at over $75B in new round on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:19PM (#18095097)
Honestly, we the lesser mortals do not know what goes behind the closed doors when cheques like $1.5 billion are written.

People said the same thing when Microsoft valued Facebook at $15 billion. Now, in the hindsight, it seems so funny that people frowned upon those valuations.

Power of having many consumers engaged on your platform is too much in digital age.

Re:AI will spell the end of capitalism on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:39PM (#17007645)
Came across this article just as my training model overfitted! The type of AI that philosophers, media, government officials associate may not even come yet so much fuss and paranoia.
Re:Namecheap Now Supports .AI Registrations on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:37PM (#16335378)
That will be great because marcaria is pretty shit
Re:Spotify generates revenue of $1.2B for 2017 Q3 on Thursday February 08, 2018 @03:11PM (#16335179)
It's a tough market to be in but Spotify continues to hold its sway!

Google play music is pretty much dead, Apple Music may not innovate at the pace and Pandora will soon die, Spotify is in a good spot to grow

I'm a big fan :)

Re:Building AI systems that work is still hard on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:00PM (#16092677)
Experienced multiple times working on applied AI projects. Real-world datasets are messy and labeling them is an expensive task.

Enterprises are also not sure how to measure the RoI of their AI projects, especially since the accuracy is the mid-80s at best and someone needs to take ownership to teach the machine and improve the accuracy continuously.

Re:Show HN: Excel Add-In for Text Analytics on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:02AM (#15860163)
Great - wonder how do you guys hold sway amidst tough competition from Amazon and Google for text analysis solutions? It's a tough world out there for startups in this space.
Re:Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:43AM (#15650940)
Hehe! You will be surprised how often this happens in best of the companies. A large fintech startup I work with had 5 GPU servers lying around idle before the CTO realized that they only need them while training the Machine Learning models and not during inference stage.
Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:26PM (#15620363)
It's good but considering auto-reply feature of Gmail and integration with other apps like Calendar and Hangouts, I wouldn't pay for any such solution. Of course, assuming the organization use Gsuite else, maybe x.ai fits the bill.
Re:Yes, but what does your startup do? on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:43AM (#15620023)
Very classic one is x.ai or Amy or whatever they call it now. They overhyped their capability of building a smart assistant for reading and replying to emails and ended up being an average service that sort of works.

Earlier, they kept telling me that I have jumped their queue and will soon get access. Now they ask me to upgrade the plan to keep using it. Complete BS!

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