Kinda strange how some companies start promoting a new product, get you excited and then after you signup they tell you you’re on the waitlist. Worse, they then hit you with an email followup sequence that typically: congratulates you for being on the waitlist promises to advance you on the waitlist if you tweet about them tells you about the founders and what their hopes are for the...
Just going to put this link from Legal Vision here for future reference. I come up against this all the time with customers – they collect business cards at tradeshows and events and immediately add the contacts to their email newsletter list. It can be a bit of an awkward discussion, but it should be clear: The question is whether a person providing their business card is consent to...
For private messages (like really private) I use Telegram.
But I’m thinking of switching to Signal. Here’s why.
BTW here’s their privacy FAQ.
Fascinating interview with Andrew Ng, Baidu’s chief AI scientist (via The Ringer). About Andrew: A former AI researcher at Stanford, Ng is best known for spearheading the Google Brain initiative, an ambitious artificial-intelligence project that helped advance Silicon Valley’s understanding of deep-learning techniques. Instead of being programmed to respond to specific actions, a deep...
I predict there’s going to be lots of prediction posts… Seriously though, amongst the click bait guff there’s a few good ones. Here’s one from Rand for instance. #8 is on the money in my opinion: #8: 2017 will be the year Google admits publicly they use engagement data as an input to their ranking systems, not just for training/learning The implications are clear: User...
This tweet from Benedict Evans sums it up for me:
If you think voice UIs are the future, verbally describe, aloud, everything you see and touch on your phone today.
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 12, 2017
Click through to read the replies to his tweet as well – people’s views are weird sometimes.
It’s getting closer and closer via BBC Technology’s post commenting on a European Parliament draft report from in May 2016: The report suggests that robots, bots, androids and other manifestations of artificial intelligence are poised to “unleash a new industrial revolution, which is likely to leave no stratum of society untouched”. and This could, if not properly prepared...
Via VentureBeat:
App.net will cease to exist on March 14, citing an inability to generate meaningful revenue and failure to gain attention of developers and users.
Wow. I had no idea it was still going.
When I initially read about a surgeon using Snapchat Spectacles to livestream a surgery I was ready to take the piss. But it actually turns out to be fascinating. And useful – all his students could watch it on their phones.
Here’s the another he’s done – with context – which he posted on YouTube:
I’ve often wondered why I don’t often see dead birds – and especially now that we’ve moved and our apartments is surrounded by lovely birds all the time. Turns out the answer is sad, and beautiful, thanks to Marie Hulett’s post from 2014. In summary, from Marie’s post: Generally, animals sense when they are not doing well, and seek out well-concealed, off-the...