But i dont understand this, why should I have to part with my data when I am buying a fully paid product? I know the justification being used for free services but i find it hard to accept this for a piece of hardware that I pay for.
This is really shocking, this data along with my google data can be used to learn a lot more about the user like what i surf when, how much time i use my mobile in office and what do i use it for. I am wondering if there is a way to corrupt the data being sent by some way masking or sending gibberish data. For me rooting is not an option because my office email will not work on a rooted device.
I still remember one of the first HTC phones which had a mobile version of I think windows xp. The phone came with a stylus and the windows felt like a miniaturized version of desktop. This improved significantly in the Lumia series, the UI was good and easy to use. But by then the app ecosystem had already built strongly around android and ios so there was not much traction. I feel microsoft lost the ecosystem battle rather than OS. With too big app stores, the developers did not have much appetite for supporting another ecosystem which was very small.
Asian here, Indian to be precise. While I agree with you, I must point out the side effects. This obsession with grades and studies pushes lot of kids on a sort of rat race. There is immense pressure to succeed and success is typically narrowly defined like high grades and a secure job. I don't know the numbers in US, but in India this has caused a lot of rise in teenage and young adult suicides, it is not uncommon to here of suicides of kids studying for IITs due to pressure to perform.
Another side-effect of this obsession with academic achievement has given rise to herd mentality where everyone is pushed to pursue similar career paths like engineering or medicine irrespective of a child's aptitude or interest. In India, especially this has led to a huge number of engineers who never wanted to be engineers. This has also meant that despite the aptitude lot of kids never got to pursue arts or pure sciences, in fact the popular perception of someone pursuing arts or pure sciences is that he or she could not make into engineering or medicine. Not to mention that this also discourages risk taking and entrepreneurship. Last thing I want to mention is that in Indian culture the idea of social perception is very strong, what will the society say tends to be a big factor in how decisions are made. This is one reason why despite sizeable population, India tends to be behind the world in pure science or in many sports. The mentality is changing a bit but not a lot and it is coming at a cost of many innocent lives.
Data anonymization is largely BS, it has been shown in the past that with enough data it is fairly easy to specifically figure out who the person is. This is how people receive highly specific and targeted ads. I know this because I have worked in advertising and it's amazing & creepy that how specific I can get in my targeting. So yes, they in reality make money by selling user data and showing them ads using that. My bigger problem here is that when I buy a mobile device by paying money, why should I have my privacy not respected.
This is certainly an interesting marketing angle and something that will differentiate Apple from competition. Moreover google guys cannot make this claim as their entire model is based on selling user data. I hope this brings privacy concerns into the consciousness of larger public. I also don't know if the commitment of Apple is beyond just marketing, will it be able to make the same claim in China? Maybe currently this is just a western thing.
Ironically (?) the book is on Amazon & there is some dark humour in the fact that Amazon will probably end up contributing significant in sales to this book. I bet Bezos has a evil smile on his face.
I think this is the point. The success of any protest movement depends on whether it can be galvanized into a political force. This can happen either when the protesters have economic and financial influence in terms of sheer numbers. Alternatively, it can happen when the protesters learn to organise in a way that they become politically relevant by voting along certain lines or candidate, but even here the numbers are important.
The phathalates hypothesis sounds plausible to me. However, it will be a combination of factors social, economical and biological. One hypothesis, I have been thinking of is about relation between the age of the father when the child was conceived and it's correlation with sperm count of the child when he grows up.
I am not sure if this data was collected in the study. Does anyone know about any such study?
If you visited India you will find "Swastikas" on the doors of many of the Hindu & Jain households. It is a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck, the association with hatred is very recent and perhaps limited to western world.
>There is, however, plenty of data supporting the opposite: almost all other democracies have strikter limits on hate speech, and none of them have devolved into dictatorships.
does that mean all "hate speech" is eliminated? Please share the data.
The other problem is who decides which free speech to suppress? Who has that moral right?
"Further, we point out the inevitable effect of making martyrs by persecution. Persecute the Nazis, drive them underground, imitate their methods in Germany - and attract to them hundreds of sympathizers with the persecuted who would otherwise be indifferent."
Most of the people & corporations screaming for suppression on all kinds of speeches across spectrum of opinions do not get this. The best way increase toxicity of any discourse is to try and suppress it, this is is evident from recent examples of Google, Cloudfare, FB, Charlotesville, University of Berkeley and many more.
While I have no hopes from corporations, I hope that people realize that dialogue & free speech are perhaps the most non-violent & non-toxic ways of resolving any issues. Suppressing opinions be of any side just widens the chasm between groups and benefits narrow political agendas.
This is nothing but PR and ensuring they have a moral high ground among their target audience. It does nothing to address the issue and makes people who use their services feel good about themselves. This is similar to how FB supports net neutrality in US but pushes their free basics in other countries. Additionally, this also provides fodder to extremists saying look how all these people are against us because they are only punishing our views, this gives the extremists more ammunition in their brain washing of vulnerable population. A corporation does not stand for anything except it's profits and will shift its moral position based on what is most helpful to the bottom line.
Are there any peer reviewed scientific articles that prove those assertions. I found James article vague on definition of terms and not quoting enough research. Not to mention the fact that extrapolating from broad population averages to a specific set of people who are not representative of the population will make the evidence for the population inapplicable to the sample in question. Having said that, I don't think firing and lynching was the right response, it just encouraged extremists on all sides.
I don't agree with the firing. This directly fuels the view point that free speech for liberals is valid as long as the views are palatable to liberals. Such things achieve nothing but pushes both sides further into their own echo chambers and the world into a deeper abyss. It sort of sends out a message that only certain viewpoints are allowed to be expressed freely. What we need rather is a fierce and open debate with views from all sides expressed freely.
>Snips, on the other hand, runs completely on your device, with nothing being sent to the cloud. This means it guarantees your Privacy, works offline and doesn't have variable costs!
Does this mean the language model will not learn as it is used more? I feel the main reason for sending & storing data in cloud is to train the algorithm to get better at recognizing & answering the questions.
I think the parts of the business are a threat not the whole. I would think Amazon can be a pretty big threat to Google in advertising and cloud and to UPS in logistics and of course Walmart in retail.
This sounds like a divide & conquer approach (Sorry if this generalization is too lame). If it can work on less capable device than it will create a new wave of innovations in mobile devices.
I am wondering, whether a similar approach is possible with current DL models and will it have any performance improvements over what is existing or whether it will be computationally even more expensive.
Perhaps...but this has been my observation recently. A persons ideological position is always used as a gauge to judge the quality/value of his opinion on a particular topic. If a person is of/ perceived to be of an ideological disposition different then mine and then whatever he or she says gets discounted. Your argument about people being Bayesian assume that they are rational. In practice, you find people sticking to their prior beliefs even more strongly even when the evidence to contrary is stronge, so called backfire effect. In fact, a lot of people reject the evidence simply based on the Ideological disposition of the source that it comes from and terming it as XX wing conspiracy.
Isn't this similar to Adobe project Voco? If not how are they different. There is also another tool called Face 2 face. I think overtime people will assume everything to be fake unless it agrees with their pre-conceived notions of truth.
I had a similar experience in India where I was watching a cooking showing and they were talking about some chicken dish. Suddenly I heard "Put the chicken [beep] in the pan", then I realized they were cooking Chicken breast and the word breast was beeped out.:P
What you seem to be saying is that Instagram is a good brand building platform over the longer-term vs platform to generate leads and transactions over the short term. Unless, there is a study to prove that I am not too sure. I usually find media agencies and platforms make this argument when they cannot justify the RoI of their platform in a direct and measurable sense. It is much like how Google tries to prove effectiveness of its display ads using a fuzzy metric called view-through impressions.
On the coke bit, coke actually does measure the RoI on its TV using a mix of brand track studies and marketing mix modelling. I know this because I have worked with agencies that Coca-Cola engages to do both and is really scientific and serious about it.
Very interesting thanks for sharing. As someone working in e-commerce, I was smiling when I saw some of them but it is frustrating on how often these ineffective experiments are repeated.
I would have loved to see the cut of performance by industry/sector. My hunch is some of the things would work really well in travel but not as well in others especially low involvement categories and categories with lower average selling price. It would also be interesting to know the average duration of these A/B tests, I think some of things like scarcity and urgency will have larger effect in the shorter time duration vs others like UI changes which will take a while to produce substantial results, mostly because customers will have to learn new behaviours. Product recommendations is interesting because it is notoriously difficult to get them right and feel they tend to work better in long tail categories like media vs. head heavy categories like mobiles or laptops. They may also not work well in categories where brand influence is high and are generally high involvement and high cost.
This is one of the best answers I have read today. So many small nuggets of information. As someone in the middle of a not so satisfying job search, this is really helpful. So Thanks!
Maybe, but "as" also can be used in place of "because or since". Here is another headline from Reuters "Uber's finance head leaves; company's quarterly loss narrows". In my opinion, both the headlines provide a different slant to the same story.
P.S:- We both misspelled "causality", what a "casualty" :)
What you are saying sounds similar to collaborative filtering[0], which afaik is widely used by likes of amazon. The main challenge I find with the collaborative filtering approach is that it gives lot of weight to my recent behavior so it gets boring very quickly. Not to mention the fact that it starts restricting me to narrow genres & inhibiting the discovery of something new & novel.