Thanks for posting, our startup in Berlin is moving into the conversation-as-commerce space and this will help us with some design hurdles around user engagement.

This needs to happen in more scientific fields, like a field-specific consensus publishing platform. Everyone agrees to publish their research to benefit everyone else.

It might look something like attention detailed in Show, Attend, Tell: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03044

Which attempts to visualize machine areas of attention that look like: http://www.wildml.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot...

Reminds me of Dennis Mortensen's (founder of x.ai) recent article on the rise of Vertical AIs: http://thesbjournal.com/1165-2/

I'm surprised it doesn't use Character Aware Neural Language Models (CNN -> LSTM RNN) but instead a layered RNN. Interesting!

Powerful new viruses will continue to birth as the Earth warms. A zombie apocalypse might occur regardless of human intervention at this stage.

It's discouraging when new employees expect a certain lifestyle on joining your startup but you're runway is less than a year. Startups have been portrayed as having so many perks that there's an impossibly high standard to strive toward.

If your runway is less than a year and you don't have a proven way to self-fund from revenue, you should be careful about hiring employees at all.

It would be a red flag to me as an employer if we were close to exhausting our resources and somehow communicating to employees that they might be joining the kind of company that could afford perks of any sort.

If you're that tight, the first conversation you should be having with candidates is about the kind of company you're running. There are good developers that are willing --- with enough upside! --- to join high-risk companies like this. But most developers, sensibly, are not.

I mean, usually those perks are a distraction from anomalously low salaries and probably non-valuable equity..

The perks are also designed to keep you there as long as possible. If you leave at a reasonable hour, you don't need catered dinner or company-provided alcohol.

Don't be silly. Qatar won't overtake US. Neither will BRICS or Japan or Nigeria, etc. They lack innovative culture, disrespect for authority, etc. West Europe, the only real competitor, is almost forever bound to US.

I hate splash sign ups but this looks cool. I've never seen world building like this before

anyone can pin multi-floor plans on maps https://kipapp.co/w/grand_central_terminal | https://kipapp.co/w/eiffel_tower | https://kipapp.co/w/meetup_218915938 | https://kipapp.co/w/mega

The average news consumer expects bite sized, outrageous chunks of information to wash down with lunch – it's a two way stream of degradation.