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It's telling that big companies like google, facebook, microsoft are now open sourcing their machine learning frameworks - these things represent considerable investments in money and brain-power, so why make it available to potential competitors for free? Answer: because these frameworks are worthless without data to work from, and that's where the companies now hold their advantage and value.

I would love to see some open data foundation to work on this kind of thing, and maybe some kind of github-for-data too. Come to think of it, starting with some kind of git-for-data would be good start.



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