On a lighter note, I use the same approach in understanding user needs as a product builder. I focus on letting people share the minutiae of their day rather than have them editorialize the big topics. By doing so, I get a lot of visceral insight and intuition.
Thanks for sharing this. I really enjoyed reading it.
From the current state of the art in AI, let us extrapolate that a true "superintelligence" (SI) is inevitable in the future. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but definitely in the next 100.It is also reasonable to assume that once an SI emerges it will grow exponentially in power and go far beyond our ability to understand. It will assume complete control of the environment around us.If we...
This is a technical question really. With such deep layoffs, I think a lot of people expected that Twitter would fall apart as a service pretty soon. That hasn't happened, and the site and app, at least to me seems to be running perfectly fine. World Cup coverage has been totally normal.Could some engineering folks chime in about how this is possible?
Really surprised by this. I would have thought there would be at least a small and thriving community of people that want to use org-mode, but with vscode. What gives?
Lesotho is pretty isolated from the world. Nobody even knows it exists. Living there, Silicon Valley might as well be on Mars.
However, we used to get issues of Wired Magazine from South Africa, and these came with shareware CDs. These CDs included 30-day trial editions of Macromedia Flash.
Flash was amazing at the time. Being able to create interactive animations blew my mind. I learned Flash 4 completely inside and out. I knew every single feature, every single quirk.
Of course living in Lesotho, there was nothing I could really do with all this. Most people around me didn't even know how to use computers. Flash was several layers of abstraction away from that.
So I used to spend all my time on Yahoo Chat's Web Design chat rooms. Mainly hanging out with nerds in the US. We used to have countless people drop by in the rooms every day asking questions about Flash. Mainly people working for web design agencies in the US. I was the resident Flash expert. Flash questions always were referred to me.
In the 2000s Flash rightly got a lot of flak. I'm not sad it's gone. But it was really something special, especially in the late 90s.
This article feels like an article designed to pressure Marc Lore to leave.
Losing $1B on $22B in revenue, after just 3 years of really starting this bet is nothing!
One day I was made the name taker while the teacher was out. Most kids stayed quiet, but two other segments emerged: the scycophants and the outlaws.
The sycophants would attempt to "help" me identify noise makers by pointing them out. In exchange they would hope to be safe from the list, and would use that immunity/privilege to lord over other kids.
The outlaws were kids who, once they were added to the list, talked and joked freely, knowing that they were doomed anyway. They felt they were fearless, and they goaded others to join them.
I've always remembered this experience, for how quickly a group of children organized themselves into social dynamics that echoed human systems more generally.
1. There is no way governments will just let an unregulated currency take over in a meaningful way.
2. Thus, the current Bitcoin rally is simply speculation and is being driven up by those who will profit the most from it (which is fraudulent in the way the Tulip mania was fraudulent).
I get that he's the CEO of the horse and buggy company dismissing cars, but I don't think he was that tone deaf.
Already different groups of people are quite isolated in terms of the video and audio they consume everyday (vloggers and podcasters).
I get that this study is problematic, but there is no reason to automatically assume it's not possible. What evidence do we have that there is no correlation between ML consumable physical characteristics and our sexuality?
Why are home contractors often unreliable? Typical example: a contractor is scheduled to come in on day x, but creates delays and comes later than expected.From what I've seen, both through personal experience and anecdata, it seems that home contractors are frequently unreliable both with respect to time commitments and quality of work.I am wondering if this is fundamentally because...
Theranos raised $750 million, including $633 million last year.
* Social Network: Theranos raised money from a wide range of influential investors who can support the company's efforts to secure new customers and who stand to lose to varying degrees if instead Theranos completely folds, even if it returns the remaining balance of funds raised.
* Core organizational processes: the company still has hundreds of employees on the payroll, most of whom are qualified professionals in this field. It is not trivial to recruit and bring together an organization like that. It's unlikely that most of those hundreds of people were directly involved in the shenanigans of the company.
I think those are 3 assets the company would use towards a pivot like I described. But you can't do it without removing the leader who got them here.
They got here through hype, smoke and mirrors, but they now have the capital, social network and core organizational processes in place to do this and it is a rational path to recouping time and $ investments from everyone involved.
However it will be difficult/impossible for this to pivot to happen without Elizabeth Holmes' resignation.