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What YouTube Taught Me About Facebook Live & Violent Footage

Hunter Walker

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. Remember, we weren’t proactively reviewing videos so it was a question of user flagging and other algorithmic determinants which put a video into the review queue. which are likely occurring.

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What YouTube Taught Me About Facebook Live & Violent Footage

Hunter Walker

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. Remember, we weren’t proactively reviewing videos so it was a question of user flagging and other algorithmic determinants which put a video into the review queue. which are likely occurring.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

What Google’s Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Wednesday, November 2, 2011. If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. which has an improved compaction algorithm and on-disk compression of the SSTables. ▼ 2011. (15).

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

Like.com , a image-based matching system for fashion, was acquired by Google in 2010 looks for visual matches based on user’s choices or from images they upload, and uses a unique algorithm to make suggestions on other clothing and jewelry the user might like. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

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