momeunier

$7 per 1000 calls I was considering making an app to create hyperlapse from a GPX file to visualise a route. But mapping 100km would cost $14 with a shot every 50m. Even if I could justify this cost for a very specific trip, there is no way on earth I could make a business out of that. Why is it so expensive? I think Google is leaving a ton of money on the table.

The room is 88km long by 1km wide. Never seen such a room. Pretty sure that's why GPT-3 is confused :D

I thought the problem with Vastaamo was that the CEO was in charge of the mysql database and he was basically a hobbyist that didn't care much for security. (yeah zero proper sources for that... my level of Finnish is terrible) And then Murphy's law kicked it. A vilain nabs the data for free and does his thing.

Not so much lately. There are a ton of success stories in the making. I was at Smartly and we didn't settle for 10M. Then you have the likes of Supermetrics, Yousician, Aiven, Eficode, Oura, Iceye, Varjo, Wolt, Supercell, Rovio, NextGame, Enfuce, Ultimate, Swappie, Singa, Sievo, Framery and many more...

It's exhaustive and yet my first name is not there...

Thanks for explaining further. That would actually be an interesting experiment. Who's going to run it?

I don't agree with your proposed way of studying this. You're trying to study a symptom and then conclude on the cause of the symptom. That makes no sense. If you want to prove that Facebook is listening, then prove that Facebook is listening. And don't try to prove that Facebook is listening and then targeting you with ads based on what you said. There are way too many levels of indirections that can trigger false positive for a vast number of reasons you don't control at all. What you are trying to do is replicate in large-scale displays of anecdotes but with a slightly more controlled environment. That won't prove anything since it will just be anecdotes and will again not sustain rational explanation by experts of Facebook ads mechanisms.

Without getting into the ads delivery part and the anecdotes, how would you prove that Facebook is listening? How would you prove that there is a set of information taken from your speech or your audible environment transferred to Facebook.

What do you do about multiple languages? Hiding a speech-2-text dataset in English in the app is one thing, hiding several in multiple languages would make the app bloat.