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 is not machine learning. It’s just math. It’s not a machine learned anything. It fails 1-5 of Stephen’s tests.
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:
source: Stephen Merity of Salesforce
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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.
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.
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. Builders were Brett Poulin, Chris, Nick, and me, Neal Mueller. The cave we built was large enough to sleep and provide eating quarters and shelter for 4 people. It included a vapor escape for cooking.
This guy analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages — here’s what he found:
Read the full report.
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 it.
52 65 64 20 42 75 6c 6c 20 67 69 76 65 73 20 79 6f 75 20 77 69 69 69 6e 67 73 2e
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 strategy.
[via Mike Dauber]
Looks like someone, maybe mom, walking in New York, on a rainy day, with her army [via Fubiz].
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.
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