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by JCM9 5y ago
The underlying research is indeed very interesting. Passing this (image extrapolation as a means of tracking rain movements) off as something new or “AI” is what’s not great and doesn’t help trend of people rushing to portray something as “
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by JCM9 5y ago
The weather models that run on super computers and predict 3D detailed atmospheric conditions. This is just image analytics. These models could predict, for example, that new precip will develop. This just tracks the path of existing weathe
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by JCM9 5y ago
Those methods have improved too of course over the last few decades, but yes even back then it was quite accurate. It’s not terribly complicated. You take the image, see where it’s moving and at what speed and just forecast that into the fu
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by JCM9 5y ago
“True weather prediction” as in the actual computer forecast modes that have been around for decades. Taking atmospheric measurements and creating 3D predictions of weather conditions in the future, including wind speed, precip type and amo
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by JCM9 5y ago
No. Drawing the line on the map was just used to decide where you wanted to show the prediction for. The forward looking prediction models themselves have been around for decades.
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by JCM9 5y ago
This is a bit over-hyped and not exactly a breakthrough. It’s not doing true weather prediction but rather extrapolating the movement of radar images. This is nothing new. I remember as far back as the 1990s TV weathermen would draw a line
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by JCM9 5y ago
This is a bit over-hyped and not exactly a breakthrough. It’s not doing true weather prediction but rather extrapolating the movement of radar images. This is nothing new. I remember as far back as the 1990s TV weathermen would draw a line
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by JCM9 5y ago
The point of these things is that there are strict rules on what counts and what doesn’t do it’s a measurement that has some common degree of understanding. It’s far from perfect, but absent these things companies have a habit of making up
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by JCM9 5y ago
The biggest problem with these sorts of “cloud agnostic” approaches is that one is limited to only fairly basic architectures on broadly monolithic apps. The second you want to do something more in depth or customized then this model falls
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by JCM9 5y ago
The general public has a very hard time rationalizing and making decisions based on risk assessments. People get nervous on US commercial air carriers even though this is by all measures currently the safest form of transport in the history
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by JCM9 5y ago
When I was growing up there was this idea that the best of the best became doctors (physicians) and lawyers; and that these were well paid careers. Today that’s broadly no longer the case. Both professions certainly have a top tier that ear
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by JCM9 5y ago
NDAs are common in out of court settlements. Nothing unusual here. There’s lots to be critical on regarding Uber but this is just the press taking something that’s totally normal and trying to make it sound bad.
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by JCM9 5y ago
Good content wins. Media has gotten away with producing junk for too long. Media complaining about a lack of “attention” is like employers complaining about a lack of workers. Give people a good job and pay them well and you’ll have no trou
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by JCM9 5y ago
Like a lot of these stories there’s lots of ways to spin reality. Headline could read “Company turns up providing much needed high paying jobs to region left devastated by failed industries (steel, manufacturing, …”. Or you could say “Evil
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by JCM9 5y ago
One way I look at this all though is do you honestly believe there are not ~5% of employees at your company that really aren’t cutting it and shouldn’t be there? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a place in my career where that was the case… and
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by JCM9 5y ago
This is not ideal, but par for the course in the CPG sector. You’d be shocked how much food your local grocery store throws out each week too. Also the quality of the reporting is very poor and mostly seems intent at just making Amazon look
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by JCM9 5y ago
Housing supply isn’t something that can’t change very fast. Housing demand can. The last 18 months has seen as dramatic a shift in housing preferences as we’ve seen in a while. It’s not all up though. Prices in urban cores in some places st
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by JCM9 5y ago
A key point if the article is that consumer sentiment is shifting, Google knows it, and isn’t happy about that.
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by JCM9 5y ago
There’s a huge privacy battle on the horizon in tech. The initial scuffles are just the beginning. Google and Facebook’s business models depend deeply on being able to track information that consumers are increasingly unhappy to share. Both
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by JCM9 5y ago
Pilot friend of mine says they do occasionally get alerts from ATC for unidentified primary radar targets near their aircraft while in flight. Usually this turns out to be a flock of birds, bunch of Mylar party baloons and such but in light
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by JCM9 5y ago
They’re actually not all that rare. Big Hope Diamond stones yes, but your run of the mill variety that 99.9% of people have are not all that rare. The “rarity” comes mostly from the the tight grip a small number of companies have over minin
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by JCM9 5y ago
The diamond industry managed to convince consumers that diamonds are rare, highly desirable, and something that traditionally one gives as an engagement ring. None of those are particularly true. They’re nice gems but true traditionalists g
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by JCM9 5y ago
The trouble with Salesforce is that it’s turned into the very thing they set out to replace. It’s big, unwieldy, clunky, and frustrating to use. It’s “SaaS” which was an upgrade on what they replaced initially, but seems like they’re increa
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by JCM9 5y ago
IBM has grown to do a lot more than just computing services. Which is part of the reason why IBM has been struggling to find its way. In this article they’re talking about all IBM revenue, not just computing.
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by JCM9 5y ago
I’ve come across McKinsey and BCG a few times in my career. The author’s description is in line with what I observed on the other side of the table. Their teams really had no clue what they were doing, but it gave otherwise clueless executi
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by JCM9 5y ago
Many people in the US use credit cards like “charge cards” and pay them off each month. I’ve never carried a balance on a CC but still use them for nearly all purchases. If something goes wrong a CC give the consumer a lot more leverage tha
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by JCM9 6y ago
There are lots of stories of the “I can work harder and longer than others because I require very little sleep” types having serious issues later in life. This study would seem to put some hard data behind this logic being a really bad idea
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by JCM9 6y ago
Silicon Valley had issues before the pandemic with many companies diversifying their locations across the US. Longer term I think we’ll see more diversification in where tech talent is concentrated, but I don’t think we’ll see this “global
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by JCM9 6y ago
That’s what was said at the time. Regardless, the stories coming out of Mixpanel under his leadership weren’t great to put it lightly.
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by JCM9 6y ago
It was clear getting these workers to unionize was good for the union... it was much less clear why it would be good for the workers. People can say what they want about Amazon but the reality is they provide a far better job, wage, and ben

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