Missing Oracle Cloud which has a massive GPU footprint - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/
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Wow. The hiring manager doesn't get to make the final decision?
I make sure that managers reporting to me always make the final decision on hiring (and firing) for their teams. That makes it more fair to hold them accountable for their team, because it's the team they chose.
Moving the final decision to someone else, like a "bar raiser," seems fraught with misaligned incentives.
Are bar raisers somehow held accountable for their hiring decisions?
The bar raiser decides “hire for Amazon at X level and role” and then the manager decides if they want that person on their team or not. If it’s a hire decision but manager declines the specific person they find another team instead.
I know Google/Stadia recently partnered with LG to bundle the Stadia app with LG TVs, but I wonder why Google doesn't do this with every TV manufacturers (save Sony.)
If I were Stadia's marketing chief, I'd
1. Bribe the TV manufacturers to include the Stadia app
2. Advertise that the TV includes _a game console_ during TV commercials.
3. Allow the TV users to pay a bit extra ($20?) to buy a basic game controller.
4. Have all the store demo units to auto stream Stadia playing video games and explicitly explain you don't need a xbox/playstation to play these games.
5. Buy out Witcher 3/Call of Duty 4/Project Cars 2/other older games and make them free for TVs with Stadia bundles.
Most smart TVs these days are more than fast enough to stream HD broadcast. I don't understand why Google doesn't push this.
Fiddling with my phone to play Stadia on my TV is pretty crumple some. It's just too much work for normal folks. People just want to turn on the TV and start playing.
Edit: I guess monopolistic abuse is a concern. However Sony and MS have their own streaming services. Google can just advertise 'play games with Stadia and Playstation Now and Xbox Cloud on your TV!' I am 100% if players switch to playing games on TV without game consoles, it hurts MS/Sony a lot more than to Google.
The reason they don’t push this is because Stadia, like a lot of things, is just a side project at google. It does nothing to drive significant new ad revenue, so it’s never going to get this kind of deep pocket investment.
I'm picturing someone saying the same thing about Deep Blue a couple of decades ago.
Are we so sure it's that different this time around? Sure, current AI are better, but are they better enough?
What is different this time is cloud computing / always connected devices. This enables easy collection and access to enormous amounts of training (and continuous retraining) data needed, as well as offloading processing to a single, central model that can be optimized for fat hardware for runtime.
crucifiction commented on Property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants wsj.com/articles/amazons-... · Posted by u/dsr12
Have I just become a curmudgeonly old man yelling at kids to stay off my lawn? I mean I don't feel old and out of touch, but something is off?
Is everyone else really out there demanding these types of services and technologies be installed in their homes as a prerequisite to even living there?
If you're one of the people who use these kinds of devices, and you don't mind me asking, why is it you guys like these types of devices and services? And do the privacy issues here concern any of you at all?
As a matter of full disclosure, the privacy issues seem obvious and deal breaking to me, but clearly that's not the consensus view.
It is an ROI decision. Almost everyone on the planet now carries around an echo-equivalent in their pocket all day, that also happens to have video, GPS, text and call data, and as such is a far more significant personal privacy concern than a smart speaker in a kitchen. However, most people do so because the benefit outweighs the concern. Same with smart speakers. Whats the difference from having an Alexa and having your phone on the same counter from a privacy concern perspective? It is effectively 0.
crucifiction commented on Property managers bring in Alexa to manage tenants wsj.com/articles/amazons-... · Posted by u/dsr12
"For Amazon, the appeal is obvious: Adding millions of new users to its services and gaining access to data like their voice-based wish lists and Alexa-powered shopping habits..."
It's okay folks. There are no privacy concerns here as they only want your voice-based wish lists and shopping habits data. Once again people just love exaggerating on these topics. /s
There isn't though. This is just voice control of existing things people are already doing through Amazon. This is data they already have. Is data inherently evil? I don't understand how there is some significantly different privacy concern of using Amazon services (wish lists and purchasing things) via voice control than via their website or app.
There are many legitimate privacy concerns with ever-listening devices in your house, but having "data" from people directly using existing features of a company via voice instead of mouse clicks isn't really one of them.
crucifiction commented on Amazon interested in buying Boost from T-Mobile, Sprint: sources reuters.com/article/us-sp... · Posted by u/Geeek
I doubt they want to start a cell company, more likely it is to have favorable terms for embedding 4G into Echo devices, making car and portable echos possible. They have done this for years w/Kindle, which would also benefit.
crucifiction commented on Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years cloud.google.com/blog/top... · Posted by u/clebio
While I agree their offering is quite good, I understand why enterprises do not want to invest on it. Some reasons that come to mind:
- Much less people with proper platform knowledge (not even talking about certified).
- Not much trust on deprecation policies (AWS keeps running very old and deprecated services virtually forever, there’s no guarantee GCloud would do the same given Google history).
- Not from personal experience but customer support is not top notch as with other providers from what I have read and heard.
In my opinion those three reasons alone are big flags for many corporations, which might prevent them from getting the big contracts.
Edit: formatting
I think its really #4 - cloud is still a minor side bet for them, something investors are expecting them to try to work at but that the core company doesn't really care about. its kind of a bigger google X project. aws and azure are significant company bets from amazon/microsoft where they are staking their future, google cloud is not a bet on googles future.
crucifiction commented on Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years cloud.google.com/blog/top... · Posted by u/clebio
The "Google is the new Oracle" phrase sure rings more true with this change.
Google is the new 2005 Microsoft