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Agreed. Facebook came out with the Newsfeed, and now nearly every social product has a newsfeed: MyFitnessPal, Twitter, Venmo, etc.

Tech is not banking, even in 2019. The banking system is a lot more sophisticated and convoluted and complicated than what modern tech companies and their engineers are willing to deal with.

How do you know if your problem is a client app problem vs a backend issue? :P

Can you elaborate for those of us considering Google?

I know plenty of people who've gone through bootcamps who are now productive engineers at top startups and big tech. Even though I have a degree in computer science, I'm not at all scared nor "frightened" by these schools popping up. They help those who are self-motivated anyway. Props to Lambda School!

"There is no way Facebook would ever implement something like this."

Except they did in 2011 in response to Google+ by adding Friend Lists, which you can use to filter your News Feed down to stories and news items from just friends in certain lists curated by you. This is still in existence today in 2018.

RCNN uses selective search to generate the ROIs. What makes Faster RCNN faster is not having to spend time on selective search.

Yes but it's a magnet of underprivileged and at risk students. Not your typical magnet. Props to LeBron for starting the school.

Fb's research in computer vision has produced works like training a neutral net on large datasets in 1 hour, instance segmentation neural nets, and many more, and made the code and research public with nonrestrictive licenses. These are pushing the state of art! Check out the work yourself and then come back and criticize these scientists if you feel that their work is a net negative on the world.

I constantly see people at airports on FB

I actually find it disturbing that Trump is kind-of right: NYTimes is #fakenews. :( What an age we live in.

I'm surprised to see someone tell it for what it really is. This is just like the Uber "scandal" from last year in that things got blown way out of proportion in some aspects, but positive changes were made.

No one I know clicks on Google ads. Does that mean Google's ad business is probably illegitimate?

I'm skeptical of your determination of Facebook's outlook based on your social circle, which is limited in size, geographical location, wealth, social status, and a bunch of factors.

R-CNN is slow but Fast R-CNN and Faster R-CNN simply use one forward pass per image, making it feasible for use in real time

VR hasn’t taken off as promised and the hype is dying down now. The headset is too clunky in its current incarnation. People view it as a novelty item rather than a useful tool, so I’m inclined to believe this won’t be the massive surveillance tool VR proponents think it’ll be.

This is great educational content. Thanks!

> There are important counter-trends to this -- like encryption and cryptocurrency ...

How does this translate to "they are about to launch their own coin"?

Stealing is stealing. There is no excuse for it despite your "utility" excuse.

I believe you're using biased sampling to value Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook. That's why you believe Instagram isn't valuable

I personally didn't have much use of Facebook until I started using it to connect with those who suffer the same illness as me. Then I realized I had a worldwide support group to tap into. That's pretty important to me and to the billions who use this platform.

that's news to me that MBP is outselling Surface. Also, at least 1 billion people use Facebook so that must count for something.

geez lol. Sounds like someone got seriously burnt by live video to think that.

I agree with DannyBee. The author of this post seems to suffer from a bit of arrogance and inflated sense of his own abilities. It's likely he tweaked the story a bit to make himself feel better. I've seen many high level directors do this since at that stage in their careers, they can't possibly imagine themselves to not get an offer from a company.

While I did take courses in probability, linear algebra, and lots of calculus, until recently, I forgot most of the probability and all of the linear algebra I learned in school. As for calculus, I only remembered how to take basic derivatives. In any case, I've been spending the past month brushing up on my linear algebra and probability, and it's been a struggle, but now that I'm motivated and under no time pressure to relearn the material, I find it way more fascinating than I did in college. In fact, I skipped tons of my linear algebra classes because I thought the subject was dry and dull. I also rushed through my probability and stats homework just so I could get a good grade on them. I think if you're motivated, and you can do basic math, you should be able to educate yourself in calculus, probability, and linear algebra. It'll be a struggle, but with motivation, you'll be able to pick up the concepts.

for probability and stats: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-2nd-Dimitri-...

for linear algebra: https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...

this was my college calculus textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-7th-James-Stewart/dp/0538497.... I can't comment if it was good or not because by college, I had taken calculus twice so it was all a refresher

best of luck! You sound educated enough (yes, I'm judging from the couple sentences you wrote) that I think you won't have any problems acquiring math knowledge with persistence.

You wonder why, yet these billionaires aren't wondering, they're doing.

Honestly, it doesn't seem that complicated. Just watch this educational video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxRvEZd3Mw by Google, and you'll be able to do cool stuff with machine learning.

clearly you know what you're talking about...</sarcasm>. One word: ads.

storing data for 1 billion users and maintaining consistency is a pain the butt operationally. Whatsapp isn't storing the data. If they are, they're spending hundreds of millions on servers for data they can't monetize easily without alienating all of its users.

LOL. Those who think "AOL" is a "dying brand" on here are the same ones who think Node.js is scalable and reliable.