Oh no…
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/3/17422752/microsoft-github-acquisition-rumors
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Google Sells A.I. for Building A.I. (Novices Welcome) – The New York Times
$GOOG Sells AI for Building #AI
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/google-sells-ai.html QT: “Humans must label the data before the system can
learn…once images…labeled…[it] operates w/o human
involvement…It can build a model from scratch.” How can one preview this? Will it be integrated into gphotos?
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Initially, Google will open this service only to a small group of businesses.
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But sometimes, there is no substitute for good old human labor. With Google’s new service, humans must label the data before the system can learn from it. …
Google says that once images are labeled, its new service operates without human involvement….Given more time, it
can build a model from scratch, specifically for the problem at hand.
If you are a zoologist who wants an algorithm that identifies jaguars and giraffes, said Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist inside the Google cloud group, all you have to do is supply the right images. “You upload jaguars and giraffes,” she said. “And you are done.”
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Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services – Amazon Snowball Appliance
Batch Cloud Data Transfer for @AWScloud
https://AWS.amazon.com/snowball & https://AWS.amazon.com/snowmobile Snail mail trumps email for really large data. Interesting to calculate effective transfer rates as compared “Ethernet.” Surprised that I couldn’t find even crude estimates.