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isameer··on Meta plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots
Meta Platforms, is establishing a new division within its Reality Labs unit to develop AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with physical tasks, according to an internal company memo viewed by Reuters on Friday.

The group will be led by Marc Whitten, the former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, whom Meta has hired for the role.

isameer··on Turns out, Klout does work
This looks like an analysis going the wrong way. Klout probably uses retweet counts as a signal in their score so it's not surprising to see Klout score being positively correlated with retweet counts at all. It does show that "Klout does work" but in a very simplistic way.
isameer··on Introducing Graph Search
Agree. There are a large class of Facebook applications that are really UIs slapped on top of graph search queries. I guess this would get really interesting in a practical sense once Facebook opens up an API for these queries.
isameer··on Introducing Graph Search
Yeah that was a little bit of an exaggeration but I kind of see her point. Personalization in search engines is mostly at the cohort level, not at the individual. To use your example of a local search, the results are the same for the few thousand people who live in that zip code. More broadly, search engine results are not personalized as much as they are sensitive to location, gender, broad preferences, etc. Facebook results, on the other hand, really involve you as a person on a very fine level - your friends, etc.