Comments on: Working at Powerset http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/ Tidbits Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:23:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MikeD http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-457 MikeD Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:54:42 +0000 http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-457 Yeah, but what if it's a million CPU years - and you get a million computers working on it? Yeah, but what if it’s a million CPU years – and you get a million computers working on it?

]]> By: Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Sunday, June 10, 2007 http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-456 Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Sunday, June 10, 2007 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:30:19 +0000 http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-456 [...] Tim Converse: Working at Powerset - “If all this sounds computationally expensive to try to apply to the entire web, well … it is. There’s a big double bet here, on a couple of decades-long trends: that NLP technology keeps getting ever faster and more mature, and that Moore’s Law continues making computation ever cheaper, and that the historic moment when NLP meets Moore’s Law in the middle at web-scale search is …. 2007. Or maybe 2008.” - Via TroutGirl. [...] [...] Tim Converse: Working at Powerset – “If all this sounds computationally expensive to try to apply to the entire web, well … it is. There’s a big double bet here, on a couple of decades-long trends: that NLP technology keeps getting ever faster and more mature, and that Moore’s Law continues making computation ever cheaper, and that the historic moment when NLP meets Moore’s Law in the middle at web-scale search is …. 2007. Or maybe 2008.” – Via TroutGirl. [...]

]]> By: Timboy at Powerset « Fishy thoughts http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-455 Timboy at Powerset « Fishy thoughts Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:27:33 +0000 http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-455 [...] 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm (Silicon Valley) Congratulations to Powerset for snagging Timboy! We came to Silicon Valley more than 7 years ago to do startups, and although the big search [...] [...] 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm (Silicon Valley) Congratulations to Powerset for snagging Timboy! We came to Silicon Valley more than 7 years ago to do startups, and although the big search [...]

]]> By: ifindkarma http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-454 ifindkarma Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:07:22 +0000 http://timconverse.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/working-at-powerset/#comment-454 I never paid attention to logic in college. 1) What Powerset is trying to do is so hard that it couldn't be done in a million years. 2) Powerset is lame because it hasn't launched already. Ergo: 3) Powerset is lame for trying to do something so hard that it couldn't be done in a million years. I guess I could see statements 1) and 2) being made by people who think the only cool companies are the ones tackling easy problems. :) I never paid attention to logic in college.

1) What Powerset is trying to do is so hard that it couldn’t be done in a million years.

2) Powerset is lame because it hasn’t launched already.

Ergo:

3) Powerset is lame for trying to do something so hard that it couldn’t be done in a million years.

I guess I could see statements 1) and 2) being made by people who think the only cool companies are the ones tackling easy problems. :)

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