On: What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Sum...

[dr1337]

To see why Yahoo is doomed, let's compare and contrast Yahoo's recent acquisition of Summly with Google's DNNResearch.

Summly - Sloppy mobile app that licenses technology from SRI.

DNNResearch - Groundbreaking fundamental CS Research into Deep Neural Networks that won Merck's Kaggle Competition.

Enough said.

Edit links -

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/12/google-scoops-up-neural-net...

http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/11/01/deep-learning-how-i-did-it...

[cpeterso → dr1337]

SRI would probably have charged Yahoo more money to license the technology than SRI charged Summly.