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Benenson: Facebook Reactions Generate Highly Effective Sentiment Training Data
“What's really interesting about Facebook reactions is, you know, you think you're saying, I love this thing, or I'm sad about this, or I'm angry about this, but what you're actually doing in conjunction with that Is giving Facebook really great label data for …”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 47:19 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
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Benenson: Emoji Popularity Stems From Text Saturation in Digital Communication
“And I'll go further and say that a lot of people ask me why emoji have become so popular. And I think it's tied to the fact that we now are just inundated with text. We live in a text culture, right? We communicate via text. Our Careers are run over email. We …”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:43 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
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Benenson: Digital Avatar Tools Must Be Cartoonish to Be Believable
“If you want to try to represent yourself and you want to have like configurability around that it needs to be kind of cartoonish for it to be believable.”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 49:02 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
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