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by cm11 2y ago
My takeaway was that it said more about the author (and those preaching it) than about AI. 1. The obvious thing is that technology (and various things we’ve called AI over time) actually has given laundry robots and dish washing robots. Her
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by cm11 2y ago
Agree there’s no or few “original” stories, and also that that’s not exactly something to bemoan. The quibble I’m making is that the longevity, whether intended by the tellers or not, tends to stick to the story in such a way as to lend not
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by cm11 2y ago
Good point. It’s just that some weirdness arises as stories (or adaptations) begin to pass as originals, which I think happens by default. More effort to not take the thing at face value, more effort to asterisk every story you tell. Saniti
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by cm11 2y ago
Genuine question because I think about it too: On (pro) sports teams, the coach is not the highest paid. The stars make far more. I think what's challenging is that managers (and founders) are paid similar and often more than the team.
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by cm11 2y ago
Right. Perfection can be the enemy of the good. It's that it's not a particularly a helpful critique. To use the article’s concept, it’s the wrong scale. It might be helpful to an individual in a performance review, but it doesn’t
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by cm11 2y ago
Arguing with something/someone by labeling it (too) perfect is a bit of a signal for me. Criticizing perfectionism is often just a lazy way to argue for one's side—usually to argue for doing less, but notably the less that doesn&#
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by cm11 2y ago
Tweet/article from a month ago: > So far, there is only one confirmed human case. Rick Bright, an expert on the H5N1 virus who served on President Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told me this is the crucial moment. “There’s a fi
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by cm11 2y ago
To be fair, I think everyone underestimates the difficulty—including managers, the people that hire them, and the people who org companies to "require" a large number of people with these scarce skills. While I agree ICs underesti
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by cm11 3y ago
This is like taking the batteries out of the fire alarm. It's not like there aren't times where maybe you should do that, but they're rare and temporary. How many situations are there where you'd rather have the fire tha
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by cm11 3y ago
I agree, 20% sounds about right. But designers are rarely high in the food chain—they receive requirements, they receive feedback, they receive timelines. A lot of the bad "design" comes before the interface gets worked on. These
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by cm11 3y ago
We should be careful about the "it's the best we got" phase of the argument. It usually doesn't add information, but pushes the convo as though it does. Presenting numbers is additive, questioning those numbers relevancy
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by cm11 3y ago
I think your last sentence is usually the culprit. Person gets a set of contradicting constraints. Person wants to poke at the contradiction before starting the actual work. Person doesn't have the power to just make the call on their
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by cm11 3y ago
I agree, but sorta in both directions—which paints a great contrast between product (design or management) and UI design. I really enjoyed the book and think it's great entry to a design mindset. This is a mindset for how to make produ
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by cm11 3y ago
Thanks. While what I'm describing can abstract well to ToC (many problems can), one difference is that the meeting taker with headphones pollutes the commons for everyone except themself—and those who want (or relent) to put their own
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Ask HN: Taking virtual meetings at the coffee shop
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by cm11 4y ago
Yes, I would add though that the option that's perceived as closest to "Do nothing/Add nothing/Skip" will get extra perception points as closer to default.
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by cm11 6y ago
The article touches a bit on this in terms of "proto-personas" and suggests an alternative method (assumption maps). To me, there's a point that you can build products from assumptions. You'd be trading risk (less valida
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by cm11 6y ago
My head gravitates towards how visualization makes the behavior modeling more palatable. The incredible technical feat on display is the video rendering, not so much the behavioral modelling, but it seems conceptually straightforward to add
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by cm11 7y ago
This reminds me of Ze Frank's Ugly MySpace pages. He used to tease creators of "ugly" MySpace pages during his show. When someone called him out on it, he had this to say about it: "For a very long time, taste and artist
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by cm11 7y ago
The mention of Spain reminded me of the Sant Pau hospital, which Domènech i Montaner designed in contrast to typical hospitals with the idea that beautiful places could be more therapeutic. It's a restored UNESCO site now that hosts ev
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by cm11 7y ago
The biggest is the likelihood that they, and their networks, are already using Facebook. And they're far more likely using Facebook than any of the other services you mentioned.
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by cm11 8y ago
Of course your last sentence is true. Just hypothesizing, but I imagine the ensuing discussion is the point. Perhaps the discussion took place because: - There's disagreement... in which case, this is a needed conversation. It probably
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by cm11 8y ago
These are forms of adjusting for bias and one should be cautious when they (or anyone) think they're good at accounting for them. That said, there are times we do feel justified in our decision because we feel we have adequately looked
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by cm11 8y ago
Is this to purposefully increase likelihood of getting caught in a spam/phishing filter? So they claim they've reached out while also (probably correctly) claiming it's not their fault if customers didn't get it.