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Are these companies unable to build a link shortener? It's also so easy to migrate off shortener service. If they can and still choose to use these shortening services, there must be other reason. And that reason is that they simply don't want to. This has nothing to do with AI.
I run a software company and one of the reasons customers say they want to migrate from their homegrown spreadsheet is because the guy who built it left. A freaking spreadsheet!
Such blog posts and probably many comments here are the perfect answer to "Tell me you don't run a real business without telling me you don't run a real business"
If you are judging any dimension, say priority, then assigning percentile rating to a task (i.e where does this given task stand relative to all the others) can be quite helpful to overcome the "SuperEvenMoreImportantEmergencyBugfix" cases. This is what the article is also suggesting.
And if you end up assigning 90% percentile to more than 50% of the tasks, you know your judgement is wrong, and it can be corrected accordingly. And it can also be standardized much better across the organization. Everyone can now judge their own judgements.
Rating on multiple dimensions with low correlations important for your company, say signup rate, retention, security, etc. and adding them up is a good way to not miss something important. It's not important to assign weights. Equal weights is fine [2]
I'm finding this technique quite useful in deciding what to work on next with fewer doubts about their priority. I failed to make Trello work for this and use a spreadsheet.
[1] A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions - https://omegaleadership.com/media/Structured_Approach_to_Str...
[2] The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making. - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8793/408a67fd4c32bd7b5483d3...
(Disclosure: I created this to help my customers at https://www.terminusapp.com)
The iPad is in perfect condition with no hardware issues. It's the software that will make it an ewaste soon.
My Android phone updates all the apps (even many OS services) without any problem.
Machine learning is something that I believe can take advantage of analog computing. A machine learning algorithm does not need highly precise or accurate representations. Most current implementations of such processing units use fewer bits (usually 8).
However, even if we use fewer bits, the engineering effort (design, layout, lithography, etc.) that goes into making the processing unit still assumes that those few bits are error free. The manufacturing process treats it like any other digital circuit. It assumes data processing part should be fault free (e.g. treat MSB and LSB the same). Digital circuits also demand higher power compared to analog versions.
If an analog circuit can be designed for such algorithms, not only could it be much faster, it will probably consume far less power. With a super high bandwidth consuming little power, an analog processing chip may give us a much better playground to try advanced algorithms. The materials can then be optimized and we might end up with something like a brain.
Brains (all animals) process far more information for the power they consume.
Digital circuits give us low level reliability and so they are really good for simple control. Analog/biology don't give us that. But they can give us a high level reliability while delegating the low level reliability to digital counterparts.
How many such techniques we haven't even discovered or technology is not there to observe such things?
I really enjoyed reading Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark that explores such things.
Joining a BigCo can give $1 million (above startup salary) in 5 years with a very high probability.
He has lost all credibility as a trustworthy individual. Anything he builds will be seen as tainted by IP stolen from Google (whether true or not). Most companies will avoid doing business with him for the fear of being pulled in some lawsuit and/or bad PR. This will put a major drag on his company in attracting engineers, investment, etc. He is definitely an extremely talented engineer, but his problems may be beyond any technical ingenuity that he can come up with.
I also use this list to temporarily add HN when I want to focus. This setup works well for me.
Some of my family members and friends use WhatsApp and that's something I regret (tiny bit) not using. But I don't miss Facebook, Instagram, etc. at all.
[1] https://pi-hole.net/ [2] https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
Can even real Einstein find this useful? How long can they support him while he works on his theories with no company/product to show? Do they have a system to find and support a Ramanujan? How many people will vote for his "projects"?
I really don't mean to discourage the founders. They got NYT to write about their them. Maybe it's NYT's fault. But using Einstein and such to market their company/fund is too over the top and only comes out as click-baity.
What if Bitcoin/blockchain is a actually a strong AI? The AI manipulated humans via lucrative mining to spend ever increasing amount of electricity and other resources on running it. It's distributed and hence cannot be shut down easily.
If there was an application taking up so much power and we didn't know what it did, it would be pretty suspicious. So instead of trying to be secret, the AI went public and promised wealth, no-regulations, etc. to humans to do its bidding.
How else would you do it if you were a strong AI?
Maybe the things we know about blockchain is just the surface level. What if all the hashes that are generated are part of code+data that runs and trains this AI?
And hey, we don't know who Satoshi Nakamoto is and if that person is even human.
Disclaimer: I don't have any background in encryption, crypto currency, blockchain, have no stake in any *coin, etc. But I do love science fiction.
I used AWS Schema Conversion Tool for initial PG schema. I customized the generated schema for my specific needs.
"To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a speck of semen tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end your journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it and thanking the tree on which it grew."
It makes me appreciate everything so much more and I feel like a fool for worrying over little things.
But Apple keeps forcing me to update iOS to newer and newer versions. Also, the apps stop supporting the older OS. But upgrading it causes it to slow down. New iOS and app version seems to be bloated more and more. Even simple web-browsing is slow which used to be fine before the updates.
I'm sticking to it for now, but it's slowly getting unusable and might end up in e-waste before its time.
It's been working well without any extensions/plugins.
I know that this issue is very important for Twitter as a company, but it's just funny how the existence of a service is so highly dependent on the number of characters in a textfield.
If only this article was accompanied by an awesome song, it would be interesting to me.