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Also made a wooden tool to check bicycle wheel dish that is used when lacing my own wheels by hand.
I don't have photos of mine right now, but it is inspired on this template:
(not exhaustive:)
- Video-games (including mobile)
- Social Media (fb, tiktok instagram etc)
- Video streaming services (youtube, netflix, etc)
- Music (single purchase and streaming)
- TV (yup still going)
- News (TV, and online mostly)
- books (print and ebooks)
Let's state that most of these industries have seen the amount of content published increase exponentially in the last 15 years.
Assuming that premise to be true is it really that much of a surprise that the average income of each content author is decreasing?
The only way that would be surprising is if the number of available attention hours was increasing at an even faster rate (which i guess would not be impossible if you could measure the masses of digital consumers who entered the "attention market" in that same time period).
My guess is that the scales tip a lot to the supply side though. We simply have too much stuff being produced now and not enough people to consume it.
Then there is the fact that in the open publishing models we have now the market does get flooded with a lot of below par quality stuff.
The way we deal with it now is typically by some sort of popularity based algorithm that aggregates attention on a few winners and produce a huge long tail of "looser" content.
I don't know if i have the right "picture" here but it is certainly my gut feeling that there is too much stuff out there for it to retain the same value.
Maybe this should become a case study in startup naming? (probably already is! too lazy to look it up right now)
Over the last 15years I have bought (and sold on) a lot of 2nd hand IKEA furniture. (In fact looking at my house now, I can only see 2 or 3 items that were bought new and the rest are 2nd hand and in excellent condition. There is a very very active market.
My daughter's toddler size bed was bought 2nd hand and moved on to the next parent still in remarkably good condition after she wouldn't fit in the bed anymore.
I think this is more of a classic "kill the 2nd hand marked" move.
It's not by accident that Portugal has oral health on par with the poorest Eastern European countries.
In principle only.
In practice: how much have you spent on dentist bills in the past year?
Words above are from Will Roper - Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
Even the Air Force is copying "Apple" speak these days....
1) There shouldn't already be any obvious search engine results associated with it
2) It should be unique and easy enough for the common person to recall (aim at least to be recalled when you see the name on a list of multiple names but ultimately to be recalled from fuzzy memory directly or by means of searching for a key word)
There is a lot of invaluable and invisible knowledge baked into decades or centuries of building tradition of each specific region.
I'm about to embark on a home building project myself. My wife keeps wanting a wood built house. In a country where there are hardly any... ...I just won't do it. no way.
Would genuinely love for someone to point out a reputable scientific paper that goes into this and actually draws some conclusive evidence.
I see a lot of meandering about methodologies in the chimp paper and if you see the Concusions paragraph you can see how weak it is:
>"CONCLUSIONS: Studies of numerical competence in the chimpanzee continue to provide new insights into the range and capacity for quantitatively based information processing in this species. In general, the rebirth of studies of animal counting currently suggests that this area remains a rich and fruitful source of contributions to our understanding of animal cognition and behavior. And for a truly comparative perspective, it will be important for researchers to challenge their creativity, by continuing to devise new methods for tapping capacities toward counting in a variety of species, including nonhuman primates, rats, birds, and additional new species for whom no data currently exists"
The bee paper is more interesting but it also doesn't reach the conclusion that bees can count. At least it offers a context for the framework used and the conclusions reached.
What they did is simulate a neural network that has the bees visual data as input and prove that a simple "inexpensive" computation can in theory scan quantity of perceived objects.
Well isn't that just the same as proving that a neural network algorithm can simulate an computer accumulator register?
> "Within this framework we have shown that counting and numerical ordering are computationally inexpensive, provided the animal employs an active, sequential scanning of pattern elements."
My point is that these 2 activities are clearly different, and that non-humans clearly engage in the last one but I'm not so sure I have ever seen clear evidence they engage in the first one.
Of course you could argue that it is a difficult game for humans to understand as well =) So it might not fit exactly what you prompted for.