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> I haven't seen any actual adaptivity in Inbox by Google. The interface is static, it's just different than ordinary GMail. Is there something I've missed?

If you turn on smart filters, it'll try to club promotions / payments / forums etc. smartly. It'd be right 90% time. But my threshold would be less than 1% failure.

If you open an email in Inbox, it'd recommend quick action replies like "Thanks, got it." or "Lets meet" etc.. It was on spot a lot of times, but I always wanted to add something more to the message and that's why I didn't use them.

> This is something I'd actually pay to use. Hell, long long time ago I backed a project for an Android tablet homescreen that was supposed to rearrange visible widgets depending on your location and time of day

I used One Plus2 briefly which had an area for smart apps. Since I could never predict what would be there, I never used it. I went there a few times to see if it would shorten time to action.

iOS has a recommended app at bottom left of lock screen. I use it purely as discovery. I've never found acceptable hit ratio of recommended app in my situational context and now I've blindness to that particular place.

If Knowmail guys are reading this, I'm not trying to discourage the product. I think Smartness should be in "Search mode" and not "Action mode". Action mode is when I want quick decision making and less evaluation. Search mode is when I'm open for back to back snap evaluations and unsure of next steps. i.e. don't interrupt my natural patterns. Ofcourse, I'm just one data point.

I disagree with your assertion "There's tons of areas where that AIs, or rather, basic ML, could be used". The issue with AIs or ML or any probabilistic prediction of what user wants is that it takes away control. E.g. sorting your apps by usage. It's a solution in search of a problem. If you rearrange my apps by usage, you are asking me to search my apps everytime. It breaks my patterns and habits. And we are animals for patterns.

There are some definite places where AI/ML/Adaptive algos help. Examples would be Facebook search, Apps recommendation, music recommendation, smart playlists, autocomplete and search etc. where any good tech team worth its salt is already using these techniques.

It's also the reason why Knowmail or Inbox by google are not great. I go through my mail in a set pattern. I code those patterns by labels or folders and clean folder by folder. I don't need to context switch between each mail of similar definitive categories. In these mail solutions, I make decision of the context on each mail. Is it a support email or a collegue email or a mail from my priority mailing list or from a developer for tech problem?

And that's why I'm thankful that AI is not being used in the tons of places that you refer. You will put me in a world where I'm living by someone else's patterns that mine own.

At the risk of generalizing (but reinforcing the patterns thinking), it's a common pattern with Engineers to apply a solution on all kinds of problems without challenging the efficacy of said solutions for those problems.

The only way they make money (cash out) is if trust remains in the bitcoin platform. By doing 51%, they tank the platform itself. No liquidity. Provable and transparent majority attack is MAD in the strictest sense.

Sorry, but what is DOI?

Could you elaborate, please?

Same goes for Google.

If this happened on renewal, means the customers who explicitly asked for Privacy protection didn't receive that service. Shouldn't Google at least refund all the customers the privacy protection fee because Google failed to provide the service it charged customers for?

EDIT: I understand that bugs are unavoidable but Google should be bearing the cost of its bugs. Google should volunteer the refund of $6 X 300,000 (approx. 1.8M dollars) not including negligence penalty of course.

Could you please elaborate on time speed up or slow down? Or if you could refer me to some reading material? It's an interesting problem and I'd love to deep dive into it.

Parallel construction is a great way to bypass the trivialities like constitution and law.

Websockets were mentioned in the blog post. Has proxygen been deployed with websockets at facebook scale? How much support for websockets is there in the opensourced proxygen?

wrong thread

I didn't even realize that the page was scrollable. And, it's broken for me too. Latest FF on Mac OSX.

Usage in US was hoax. Jenkem isn't.

Why does it matter if it was written by Schizophrenic or by a dozen monkeys jumping on the typewriter? Does it have merit or not? Is the content of any value? Is it a well-thought schema for keeping journals?

My assessment: I'd read a couple of chapters and it seems more complicated than necessary.

Isn't it also a false dilemma? I'd be lost in my thoughts and will shock myself just for the kick of it too, maybe as a curiosity or maybe in a masochistic way.

Raise an issue in bug tracking. Name it the Zynga bug.

Isn't it a copyright violation to copy API signatures? It'd be interesting turn of events if Google who lost the case of copying API signatures ends up enforcing the same violations if a strong contender pops up.

Thanks, I'd no idea what that was till I read what you referenced.

324M for 64000 employees in the class action lawsuit. That appears to be 5k per employee before legal fee which could be as high as 30% of the settlement. Hardly 2-3k for each employee, I think.

Very cheap for the companies. But at least a good precedent to discourage such practices in the future.

You're missing the most important part of networking with your potential customers. Provide a contact point to the potential customer where he can get help in setting up the instance today. It's good that you're incorporating his feedback but why not ask him to contact you and help him set up on your platform. Just a suggestion.

It's based on grown-ups. So I think, it's correct.

Isn't the classical definition of Arrow of time is from the system with less entropy to a system with more entropy? What is lacking in this definition of Arrow of time that we need to take it to Quantum level?

Thanks for the clarification, Matt. Does such an action from google also include penalizing the website in terms of page rank and search rankings?

You overestimate an average user's privacy concerns.

Off topic but a question regarding text to intent object parsing:

Is there any date entity in the wit directory? How do I parse a date for e.g. 17th Feb or feb 27 or 13/02?

Datetime only has contextual date selection i.e. today or tomorrow.

Cats have limited intelligence but general purpose intelligence. Compare a kitten to a computer with computing power but without intelligence. Now kitten to cat maturity gives the animal a wisdom and intelligence. That maturity is in nowhere similar to Watson as a pure hardware (kitten) to Watson with software of AI (cat).

I googled H.L. Mencken conjecture and found your reply in the search result.

Compiling, huh? http://xkcd.com/303/

Open it, take the disc out and microwave it.

No, client can be built on any platform. The client interacts with the server which plugs into the API which is in Python. You can even build a wrapper around the API in your preferred language and have it interact with the API.

Wrapper is preferable in case you want to enhance the functionality provided by the whatsapp API.