I suppose, since this is a blog about technology, that I have to comment on “IT” or “Ginger” or “Segway”, whatever you choose to call Dean Kamen’s latest invention .
Frankly, I’m not overly impressed. Unlike some others , I don’t want one. I have no need for it, and I don’t typically spend $3000 on a toy. I can get all of the transportation advantages it has on my bicycle, and get a good healthy workout too. My bike only cost $150.
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As I mentioned earlier when there was a discount available for the Sandisk iXpand, I did order one to solve a specific problem I have with my iPhone. It being an older 16GB model, it was constantly running out of space. Part of that was the growing size of apps, and part of that was…
And this really brings me back to my point, that we do a poor job of truly understanding science, statistics and cause and effect. We believe that algorithms have all been well-thought out, and produce a “true” result, even when they are trying to predict something as unpredictable as what traffic will look like 20 years from now. We assume social science studies are giving us the “right” answer for how to educate people, or train them for the best outcomes, without considering what we are teaching them about the larger world. We assume that we can tweak one belief, or one thing, without human beings reacting to those changes in unpredictable ways, all the while thinking our one change will cause the reaction we DO predict.
We assume a lot that should never be assumed. We over-simplify a world that actually has more influences than we can possibly account for, and assume that what is really a small statistical difference represents a universal truth.
It doesn’t. There are no simple answers. It takes hard work, hard discussions, and lots of listening to figure out the best way forward. Don’t wait for AI to tell you what to do, it may be missing quite a bit.
Saw this post today and it set off some random thoughts in my head, so being the self-absorbed blogging type, you get to read them. Blocking Access to Web sites at Work Could Backfire It seems that a recent study is showing that people who work for companies that block a lot of access to…
There’s been a world of attention paid to the Mailbox app for iPhone and Gmail since it was announced. In fact, the wait list for access to the app is quite impressive. Recently, after nearly forgetting that I had even signed up for it, my turn finally came around and I was able to hook…
“Google has spent a while reducing Chrome’s sometimes notorious demands on your system, but it knows that its web browser still needs some work. Accordingly, the upcoming Chrome 55 will include an upgraded JavaScript engine that significantly reduces the memory footprint. Given that many modern websites thrive on JavaScript, this should lead to some dramatic…
Actually, it’s a question about the shared items RSS feed. I subscribed to Scoble’s Shared items in Bloglines the other day and discovered something odd. Instead of the title of each post showing as the title, the title of the original blog shows as the post title. That makes scanning the feed a lot harder…