It never fails that something stupid happens right before you need to leave. I need to get to sleep, and I plugged in my iPod to sync, and itunes crashed, apparently taking 17 songs along with it. The MP3’s no longer exist.
I’ll have to pull the files off my backup, external, drive, but not tonight.
In recent weeks, I’ve noticed a pretty steep decline in the amount of battery life my trusty old iPhone 6S was giving me. At first, I blamed some apps running in the background, so I started making sure I cleaned up any apps on a regular basis. Then, I blamed the upgrade to iOS12. Finally,…
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.
I wonder if they separated the numbers for different workplace environments. Like, in an open office concept, is it even worse, or do people email and IM less, offsetting what would clearly be in person interruptions and distractions? Either way, we are terrible at multitasking and the new push to communicate more, is not helping…
Malwarebytes has been one of my go-to resources for years when helping people clean up infected machines. Interesting to see them dip into a tool for Macs, which obviously can, and do, get malware as well! Malwarebytes releases Mac security software to get rid of Apple malware, adware Follow these topics: Links, Tech
Given the news last night that Google is stopping development of Notebook, let’s start the argument, Zoho Notebook or Evernote? Which one is going to be better suited to my to-do lists, brainstorming notes, gift ideas lists, and other random tid-bits of information that I like to keep organized in a OneNote like structure, but…
Since I know this will probably be the last time many of you are online, let me go ahead and wish you all a fantastic holiday weekend, no matter where you spend it. Personally, the holidays are one of the few times this year that I’ll get to enjoy the comforts of home for a…
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