Paul Gillin

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How Much Should You Pay For Content?

Paul Gillin

Be sure to ask any prospective writer for samples of his or her work in your field of expertise. Published samples won’t do you any good. Try posting your needs and what you’ll pay and see who responds. You do not want to pay a freelancer to learn your business on the job. Hiring freelance help blind is a risky affair.

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David Ferrucci on Building the World’s Smartest Computer

Paul Gillin

In a random sample of 20,000 past Jeopardy questions we found 2,500 distinct types. We produced more than 8,000 documents. Watson would produce multiple syntactic assignments because there was no guarantee of approaching that problem correctly. You need to parse all of these assignments in parallel to see which are most likely.

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Bulldog Reporter’s Faux Pas Shows Why Not to Take Research at Face Value

Paul Gillin

In fact, statistically valid research conducted by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth over the past several years has documented that about only about one-third of the Fortune 500 and fewer than half of the Inc. Blogging is one of the oldest forms of social media and is not generally considered a high-growth field.