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Comment · 5 years ago
But Facebook never sells the data itself, it only sells targeting capabilities. The government can only say "display this ad to people who fit these categories", but they can never see those identities.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not quite sure what the innovation was for Apple pay - just that they put it on a phone?
Comment · 7 years ago
"So for example, if you look at the U.S., productivity growth mid-century or say between, you know, 1920, 1970, was maybe about 1.9% a year. Now most economists think it’s much lower, maybe around sort of .4% a year, something like that."

Isn't this just because the US was riding off of the coattails of two world wars and being _the_ global superpower? I wonder what the data says about the rest of the world in that period, probably not so good?

Comment · 7 years ago
According to the ITC, only 11.9% of the world has "Fixed broadband" aka wired internet. 30.1% in developed nations. There's a big gap, especially when the world catches up in a few years.
Comment · 7 years ago
Believe it or not, cooling is almost never the bottleneck, aircooled datacenters can be built in relatively warm places like virginia. The infrastructure for datacenters is often the bottleneck - each one takes up the electricity of a small town and many out-of-the-way places don't have the infrastructure set up to support such things, nor do the local renewables provide enough energy to run the datacenters.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I wonder how much statistical independence has to play in this. e.g. the large crowd can be biased when they influence each other in a way that the small debates cannot. What happens when you have small independent debates versus large independent crowds?
Comment · 8 years ago
The other side of the coin is that the game engine for StarCraft II is signifcantly smoother, and so its dynamics are easier for models to learn. Brood war has all kinds of weird quirks and dynamics, and some "bugs" are part of the game system, so it's much harder for computers to reason about some of these kinds of things.

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