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Oh, the Android app seems have been fixed. Let's see if it crashes after this sleet. Today I learned
February 8, 2024 at 5:35 PM
October 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM
October 3, 2023 at 12:26 AM
July 8, 2023 at 2:54 PM
July 7, 2023 at 1:07 AM
Testing 1.39 Bluesky Android app.
July 6, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Hinton has that dry British humor others cannot manage with panache:
July 5, 2023 at 11:10 PM
Hinton's pedigree is astounding!
July 5, 2023 at 11:09 PM
An early AI scientist died due to lack of information:
July 5, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Due to a WiFi interruption, I was forced to pause my reading of Power and Prediction.

This is because the NYPL app requires WiFi for reading. FFS.

So I started reading a different book in the Kindle app:

#GeniusMakers
July 5, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Speaks for itself.
July 5, 2023 at 10:56 PM
Even IBM discovered Watson could not conquer the health care market. The as-is system has no room for it.
July 5, 2023 at 10:54 PM
An example of how AI isn't being adopted because the system isn't changed. Pandora:
July 5, 2023 at 10:52 PM
The authors make a convincing case that AI requires systems to change to use it. And inertia is going to make adoption very slow, as quoted below.
July 5, 2023 at 10:47 PM
And boom! Uber arrives.
July 4, 2023 at 1:01 AM
2/2

Rory probably knows all this. I think of his talks mentioning Uber.
July 4, 2023 at 1:00 AM
1/2

Paging Rory again.
July 4, 2023 at 12:58 AM
And again Rory.
July 4, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Again I think of Rory Sutherland.
July 4, 2023 at 12:54 AM
July 3, 2023 at 11:57 PM
Now this book is starting to really annoy me.

The word they're not using is "heuristic."

Where was the editor?
July 3, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Again thinking of Rory Sutherland.

But Tamer T. Salameh seems to be the only one to know there's a *hidden* cost when the information in an AI is bad.
July 3, 2023 at 11:50 PM
1/2

Dingbat writer (as writer Maud Newton calls her) Peggy Noonan decried and lamented what she called the "soft clothes" of Silicon Valley. She thought it was un-serious and un-adult.
July 3, 2023 at 11:45 PM
There's a trifecta of unnamed writers in this chapter.

They are: Rory Sutherland, Dan Ariely, and Paradox of Choice's Barry Schwartz.

How many AI Bros have even read them? I despair.
July 3, 2023 at 11:43 PM
It's interesting that they bring up cigarettes.

Over a century ago, when those companies employed people to hand-roll them for packaging, could anyone have predicted one-quarter of the country would wind up smoking?

In this respect, Bernays was The Mule. He got women to smoke.
July 3, 2023 at 11:40 PM