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by dpandey 10y ago
Really enjoyed your piece on product dev cycle fundamentals: http://www.michaelseibel.com/blog/product-development-cycle-... Just curious growth wise, did Socialcam have a lot of word of mouth, or was some growth hacki
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by dpandey 10y ago
In the creativity bucket, there's also a fair amount of inspiration from: 1. Studying other products and reasoning about them. 2. Conceptually dissecting multiple existing products and looking at different combinations of some subset o
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by dpandey 10y ago
My understanding is once you have selected a photo, they upload it in the background while you're doing other things (like typing the caption). If you decide to cancel it, I believe (hope) they delete it from the server. But it's
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by dpandey 10y ago
Facebook is the only social network (if you discount Linkedin) from 2005 that's not just existing, but thriving today. All the other social networks that succeeded (except for SnapChat - which also has an incredible CEO) are owned by F
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by dpandey 10y ago
Lets keep in mind that DeepMind is a subsidiary of Alphabet that has to justify its existence (not tomorrow, but over time) with revenue. Interval research corporation is a good example of a very high profile research entity that couldn&#x2
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by dpandey 10y ago
I've usually found it more effective to go to a tradeshow where they might show up. They're usually in an exploring and deal making mentality at the shows, and usually at least one senior person is present. A lot of deals get star
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by dpandey 10y ago
Zestimates are only reliable as an 'in the region of $X' indicator. Seen multiple houses where this issue exists. I'm sure those are not the only ones. I know Zillow doesn't make a claim about being super accurate, but n
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by dpandey 10y ago
I wasn't implying that DeepMind (or its research team) are going to be dissolved. My point was: I wouldn't be surprised if that happens if they don't find compelling products to make money off of given Alphabet's reven
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by dpandey 10y ago
On the contrary, DeepMind is a subsidiary in the new alphabet structure and is looking at a stick wielding CFO with a profitability question on her face. If they don't figure out compelling products in reasonable time, the researchers
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by dpandey 10y ago
Your last thought is key. Medical diagnosis demands extremely high precision as well as 'judgement' because one little deviation can be highly correlated with something serious. And there can be several of these deviations in diff
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by dpandey 10y ago
Note that he didn't say anything about the point you made : a possible change in common sense systems being more tractable to build. That'd have been fascinating. He just said something old and techcrunch made it into a headline.
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by dpandey 10y ago
Really good point. He might just be following google's PR directives. Also, while their research team is ostensibly doing great work, maybe the product team doesn't have much to show or claim after all. Which CEO/exec wouldn&
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by dpandey 10y ago
Conceptually speaking, 'statistical word match/associations' and rules engines are not very far apart in their level of 'artificial intelligence' or 'magical ability to solve a currrnt hard problem' which
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by dpandey 10y ago
Those are 2 very different things as much as we'd like to believe they're one since they're within the same company. I wouldn't be surprised if google sunsets the company and absorbs the employees in its more profitable
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by dpandey 10y ago
I was just thinking about that. Once you can solve a problem in a way that's currently comprehensible and doesn't feel like 'magic', it's no longer AI. Having said that, I still see abuse of the phrase (more in indu
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by dpandey 10y ago
Agree, except with the 'nearly infinite' qualifier. We have some large data sets now and we can draw a cat. We don't know if we can build anything interesting with those data sets yet.
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by dpandey 10y ago
A huge part of the story seems to be around confirmation bias (people like reading stuff that supports what they already believe). While confirmation bias is a fact of life, reading fake stories to confirm your bias is not something that an
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by dpandey 10y ago
The fascinating thing about his answers is that he says nothing that wasn't already known 25 years ago. 'General AI' is a really vague term and means almost nothing. It's well known in AI that common sense AI systems are
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by dpandey 10y ago
For instance, becoming the market leader worth $30B.
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by dpandey 10y ago
Ease of use really matters. If you think of your product workflow being a series of micro solutions, then user delight implies you picked the right micro problems to build a solution for. For instagram, a key micro problem was it took too l
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by dpandey 10y ago
Rather than fret about the valuation, it's useful to look at the big picture and ask what stripe has created: an incredibly valuable product in a massive market with lots of potential. It's also rapidly capturing the value it has
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by dpandey 10y ago
The core of the article is hard to disagree with: positive reinforcement is much more important effective than punishment. But what if the kid just doesn't want to do what you want to reinforce? Just repeating your preferred choices ar
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by dpandey 10y ago
Love for X (math/running/anything else) is hard to explain. It intrinsically appeals to me and I enjoy it once I have mastered it a bit.
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by dpandey 10y ago
Exactly. Comfort with an occasional fail is really important and helps you stay on track. Being really extreme usually leads to the extreme outcome - falling off - just on one fail.
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by dpandey 10y ago
While I agree with the part that you need to really enjoy an activity for it to sustain long term, the claim that you need to enjoy it when you're starting out doesn't sound right. I love running. Yet, I struggle massively when I
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by dpandey 10y ago
1. Agree. Setting a time-slot aside means that you don't have to make that decision everyday. Not having to make a decision is very helpful in forming a habit. 2. Agree. Some discipline in sticking is very helpful in the beginning. Ove
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by dpandey 10y ago
Thanks. "Challenged" (not debunked) would more precisely describe what the linked article says. I'm not saying the claims were set in stone, but even intuitively, it seems to make sense that people might be tempted to 't
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by dpandey 10y ago
After trying to build a healthy habit app for several years, we have found that the most effective way to do it is to turn what you're trying to do into a game. It doesn't need to use technology - you could just be doing it on a p
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by dpandey 10y ago
And what if what you really wanted to share was a photo, or a comment, or an article from NYT or Vogue, and not a long piece of writing? Isn't that what most of Facebook is used for?
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10 strategies for curbing your startup stress(chicagotribune.com)
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