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Before we get too excited, how much of that R&D funding is on which color of button makes you most likely to click "Buy Now"?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

The heck is Amazon researching? I've run into CS articles / whitepapers / etc from eg. Microsoft-affiliated researchers (especially in programming language stuff), but can't remember ever seeing anything from Amazon. Probably just means I'm not reading papers from the right field / subfield

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right, it's pretty clear some of it is probably something related to AWS but I wouldn't be surprised if they did research into things like supply chain management.

I went and did some searching and found https://www.amazon.science/, and it looks like my guess of either AWS or supply chain management was pretty good since I can find articles on both on there 😀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Aws might be anything from network packet management, to ai tools.

[–] ClopClopMcFuckwad 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Project Kupier comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Huh, I'm severely out of the loop on all these new space ventures, I'd never even heard of it (and it's not even all that new, ~5 years 😅 )

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 8 months ago

AI. Data sciences. Marketing. how to build a more realistic looking android body. Was "Zuck the Cuck" an insult?