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This made me remember the Japanese restaurant which works on the opposite principle: robotic chefs and human waiters. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
by osipov 17y ago
This made me remember the Japanese restaurant which works on the opposite principle: robotic chefs and human waiters. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVOSlUn7e0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVOSlUn7e0
There is an interesting cultural dimension to Germans choosing to replace human interaction with robot interaction while Japanese choosing to replace human work with robot work.
- ugh 17y agoNo, there is not. (Two anecdotes are not data.)
- osipov 17y ago"data" is a very flexible term and you can choose how you define it. For instance, I argue that we should take into account choices of each individual who in anyway had to give their active (i.e. though contribution) or passive (i.e. though acceptance) agreement for the respective project (i.e. robotic chef vs. robotic waiter) to go though to completion. Projects of this scope involve teams of people who analyze needs, consider business impact, create designs, build the robots, etc. Thus each team is a sample of its culture and their decisions constitute "data" about each culture. Of course you could argue about team size, but that means you are just arguing about sample size.
- ugh 17y agoSure, define it that way. But no one (sane) will believe you if you define data that way. (You can define any word however you want it and I have no problem whatsoever with that. If you communicate your definitions, fine, alright. But your definition of data is not one that would convince very many people when it comes to generalizations.)
- cabalamat 17y agoSure they are; have you never heard the phrase "the plural of anecdote is data"? (half joking)