Earlier this week I blogged about 5 simple questions you can ask to determine AI hype. Today I saw something with more hype than I would expect from a respected tech company. “eBay determines this price through a machine learned model of the product’s sales prices within the last 90 days.” In my opinion this price prediction …
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Simple questions you should ask to help reduce AI hype
As Machine Learning captures our imagination, it’s important to separate the material from the hype. Here are 5 simple questions you should ask to help reduce AI hype: “How much training data is required?” “Can this work unsupervised (= without labelling the examples)?” “Can the system predict out of vocabulary names?” (i.e. Imagine if I …
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Video– Excellent product description by Chevy from 1937
Skip to 3:01 to learn how the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding. It’s a brilliant product break-down using language and concepts to conceptualize the product features into something that everyone understands and wants to buy.
Video– Talk at Battery SF about Fix Maps
Here’s the recorded video of a 5-minute talk I gave at Battery San Francisco about Fix Maps. The talk format is called “Ignite” which calls for 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Here’s the slides from the talk.
How To Build A Snow Cave
Snow caves are fun to build and provide warm places to sleep and take shelter from a storm. This is a brief how-to guide to building a snow cave. The snow cave in this example was built by 4 people near Skinner Hut at the edge of the timberline in late-December 2015 at 11,620 feet. …
Analysis of 250 SaaS Pricing Pages
This guy analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages — here’s what he found: The average number of packages is three and a half 50% highlight a package as the best option 69% of companies sell the benefits 81 percent organize prices low to high 38 percent list their most expensive package as ‘Contact us’ The most common call …
Clever Red Bull advertising in hexadecimal
Want to know how to spell “Red Bull gives you wiiings.” in hexadecimal? Check out these two red bull advertisement in silicon valley. Here’s a hex to text converter to see for yourself. It’s not a recruiting ad, because this is the only job they have in SF. Must be just advertising to thirsty programmers. I love …
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Apple – Steve Jobs on “Think Different” – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997
Video of 1997 keynote 2-months after Jobs returned to Apple. Sets the vision as something other than speeds and feeds. Launches the brand for the next 15-years, which you can see even today. The 1997 ‘Think Different’ billboards are reminiscent of the 2015 ‘Shot on Iphone 6’ billboards. Worth the 16 minutes if you’re interested in product …
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Routine
Looks like someone, maybe mom, walking in New York, on a rainy day, with her army [via Fubiz].
This mountaineers review of the two 2015 mountaineering movies
Here are my thoughts on two mountaineering movies that are in theatres now; Meru and Everest. I liked both movies. Here’s a comparison chart that I put together.