I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week(blog.ai-academy.com)

I reverse-engineered a $500M Artificial Intelligence company in one week

https://blog.ai-academy.com/i-reverse-engineered-a-500m-artificial-intelligence-company-in-one-week-heres-the-full-story-d067cef99e1c#.378xg911u

6 comments

maxmcd9 anni fa

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13964685

loeber9 anni fa

This isn't reverse-engineering at all. Frankly, I think this is a reasonably cool project, but it's brazenly dishonest of the author to claim he "reverse-engineered a company" when all he did was conduct elementary statistics on an open dataset. You can reasonably expect that there's much more to OPower's data analytics suite, and furthermore, a company is of course much more than its flagship product.

There are lots of smart metering companies: why is OPower among the most successful? Maybe the interesting thing to really think about is not their analytics but their sales and marketing strategies.

red_dinosaur9 anni fa

The author of this story clearly does not know what "reverse engineer" means.

This is reverse engineering AI companies: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943

inputcoffee9 anni fa

That's nothing. I reverse-engineered Twitter in one hour using Wordpress.

Sorry. I try not to be to mean, but this title was just crying out for it.

the_cat_kittles9 anni fa

i suggest removing the unnecessary $500M and one week from the title. those things are total clickbait.

saganus9 anni fa

Yeah, it's very clickbaity but I figured it was the original title, and the content was interesting enough to be submitted. Hopefully it won't prevent people from reading it because of an anti-clickbait reaction.

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TheSpiceIsLife9 anni fa

I suggest leaving them in for the same reason.

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pinaceae9 anni fa

Baity title for maximum effect, but the article itself is not so bad. Content marketing, but ok.