lazy_nerd

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by lazy_nerd 6y ago
If people in US can be misled by fake news, India stood little chance. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used effectively to brainwash the general public in India. As Barack Obama described in his new book 'Promised Land', the chanc
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How Alphazero defeated Stockfish with much less computational power and 0 training(en.chessbase.com)
26 points by lazy_nerd 9y ago|2 comments
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by lazy_nerd 12y ago
+N. Its equally telling about the CEO as it is about Emil Michael.
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by lazy_nerd 12y ago
+1000. You have hit the nail on the head.
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Study on what works in Social Media Marketing(beevolve.com)
4 points by lazy_nerd 13y ago|1 comments
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
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Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)(whatsinmyname.prokta.com)
8 points by lazy_nerd 13y ago|8 comments
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
You mean, stocktwits?
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after tryin
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Mining interesting data about your name(whatsinmyname.prokta.com)
8 points by lazy_nerd 13y ago|18 comments
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by lazy_nerd 13y ago
What was their traction and valuation when they raised this round?
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Are dirty tactics like these that common in enterprise software?
3 points by lazy_nerd 14y ago|0 comments
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by lazy_nerd 14y ago
Lots of different analytics solutions suited for different scenarios mentioned in your list. Each one serves a different need even though there is some degree of overlap between them. You need to answer questions about your business to figu
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by lazy_nerd 14y ago
Any comparisions between Pig, Hbase and Hive might help
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What kind of programmer are you?(start.sbastn.com)
5 points by lazy_nerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
Interoperability between services is bound to be the next big thing. Nice job, guys!
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
Is it going to be in Clojure?
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
What this kind of scammers don't realize is that internet and subsequent proliferation of social media networks has leveled the playing field to a large extent. So, if people who are being arm-twisted become more vocal about it, it might co
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
India has also given people like Rajat Gupta (ex-Mckinsey Director) and others involved in the insider trading case.
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
Did Google dupe Sequoia and other VCs into thinking that Color was actually worth investing $40million dollar into even though eventually when they launched it turned out to be vaporware?
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
Indian brands are notorious for arm-twisting their customers. I have seen one senior level executive of a major Indian brand claim that in a population of 1 billion, they can afford to piss off a lot of customers and still get new customers
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
Yes, it is really bad. Turns out, the test data we were using was not clean and correctly categorized and that's why such low accuracy.
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What's it like to intern at an Indian startup - from an IIT student(dnihitunplugged.blogspot.com)
27 points by lazy_nerd 15y ago|5 comments
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by lazy_nerd 15y ago
What's their CAC, LTV and any other interesting metrics he is willing to share

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