Agree--definitely a better outcome for all the stakeholders, including Salil (given the opportunity cost of building a lifestyle business). It didn't even have to be an acquihire. He had enough of a product and/or business that a buyer with the right strategic market need for it would have bought the company for more than x per developer.
I’m surprised AWS doesn’t expose NLP services tuned for customer feedback type text data—-they surely must use/maintain models for this type of data internally given the Amazon store is a trove of customer feedback training data.
Separately, where does Azure fall into this space?
I would imagine that AWS Comprehend utilizes a lot of customer feedback when training its internal models. However, they do advertise Comprehend as a general purpose NLP service, so they may have taken steps to make the models generalize to the non-feedback domain. In any case, on our set of sentiment data for customer feedback, Comprehend is outperformed by Google’s NLP API and our own internal model.
As for Azure, we actually did not factor their service into our comparison. This is definitely something to consider in future blog posts.
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Most infant car seats can be installed without the base in a car and typically connect with various lightweight (snap and go) strollers making portability via ride-share easy. There are one or two convertible car seat/lightweight stroller combos (for toddlers) that are very popular with urban parents who need to use ride shares. They are also useful when you travel via airplane. For example the Cosco Scenera car seat and the Mountain Buggy Nano stroller. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LotN7k5T2Q)
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