Year: 2018

The issue of underpowered studies that plague academic research (I mentioned it just a few days ago) is common in market research too. I’m horrified when I read analyst reports featuring surveys with just 100 respondents answering about 10y old industry targeting million of orgs

I met entrepreneurs (and VC firms) that do what they do just for the money. Others, just for the competition, for the pleasure of defeating an enemy. And others, to change the world for the better. I get along with the latter group of people.

Must-watch presentation about the humankind at its best, starting with a great quote:

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” ― George Bernard Shaw https://t.co/jX9183QBX3

Preparing for the next two weeks in APAC. Next one in #Singapore and #Kyoto, the following in #Tokyo. As always, I look forward to meeting customers and startups doing interesting things in #ITOps, #AI, #security, and human body augmentation.

RT @hplus: Enabling accessible and scalable eye tracking research https://t.co/a2AWJxSB0z #Wearable

Specifically, we will use facial recognition technology to determine whether the image of your face in the photo is visually similar to an image of your face as it appears at re:Invent. This will allow us to confirm that you are registered for re:Invent.”

This year the photo upload for @awscloud #reInvent comes with a special note: “…we will apply facial recognition technology to the photo to make the process of checking in at re:Invent faster and easier.

I’m reading this more and more frequently, @fastcompany. In stark contrast, It’s amazing how the #AI community managed to keep its research widely accessible so far > Academic publishing is broken. Here’s how to redesign it https://t.co/2X8SgYkhGj

Just discovered @pupil_labs, a German startup developing research-grade eye tracking HW and (open source) SW. Their technology can be used as an add-on for existing consumer-grade #AR and #VR platforms. Remarkable: https://t.co/PjjsLvwjzV

If the former, we already have that: for a very long time, humans have been trained to behave in an automated way. We already are the algorithms we don’t like.