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I think this would be fascinating to work on, the size and variety of FB's data is mind boggling. If I was looking for a job and had more ML experience (it's only been a focus of mine for the past year or so) then I would be finding out how to get on that team.

Any interesting ideas I have involve a heavy machine learning component. I'm sure the most valuable software companies in the future will have too.

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You might try NSA, they have possibly even more data to boggle ones mind. You find that fascinating because of the means or of the ends of it?

Ha, unfortunately:

- I'm not American

- I'd rather make stuff that improves people's lives in any way, and not subvert their freedoms.

ML is fascinating to me because what can be done with it.

Better not join Facebook then

Ah yes. There are still some little shreds of privacy left somewhere in the world, so why not help Facebook with that? It's an engineering challenge, Yay!

Also, Wall Street is not yet completely done destroying the US economy (and others with it), and I bet they could use your help too. You could do your part in providing liquidity to the markets. Everyone loves liquidity! Besides, it's challenging, mathy work! Yay.

.. Disgusting.

Same here. I've also been heavily occupied with ML and AI for the past year or two. I think it's going to usher in the next phase of computers, we'll see. Computers are finally getting fast enough to do some interesting things with all of this data we're creating.

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