Wandering Generalities The individual clips are remarkable and jaw-dropping for the technology they represent, but the use of the clips depends on your understanding of… Read More »Eye on AI: Platonic banana trouble
The short film below was made entirely by OpenAI’s Sora people putting a lot of hard work and ideas into Open AI’s SORA. SORA is… Read More »Eye on AI: Shy Kids, airhead slot machine
Pelaksanaan – Indonesian – the process, method or action of doing something. Implementation. Execution. “Carrying out.” “The green is in the grey” (hat tip JR)… Read More »The Green is in the Grey; or, Pelaksanaan
I’ve just read the latest FreakTakes (from the excellent Eric Gilliam) on Managing Lockheed’s Skunk Works. Highly recommended – here’s a snippet:
Be careful what you get used to; or, Get used to what you care for By asking the volunteers to increase the voltage one step… Read More »Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein on Habituation
Via Alex Tabarrok at MR … abstract public knowledge per se has very little effect on corporate patenting, publishing, or employment of scientists. Our study… Read More »Public knowledge, private know-how?
Economic development depends on the accumulation of know-how. The theory of economic growth has long emphasised the importance of something called technical progress, but what… Read More »Ricardo Hausman on know-how and economic development
Here’s very-nearly the whole post: Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better… Read More »Seth Godin on optimisation vs maximisation
For non-specialists: If you’ve ever wondered why it’s so hard to get all the data points you want into a simple, workable database and what… Read More »Hadley Wickham defines Tidy Data
Speaks for itself. See some of the 123 prototypes from 1:40. See also: Design Matters (23): Aqualisa shower control barDesign Matters (22): Phases of the… Read More »Design Matters (24), iteration edition: The Coat Hinger