Dear Leaders,
If you have to repeat a simple concept to your staff for years and they still don’t own it, there are 2 main possibilities:

1. The concept is too elusive to grasp
2. They don’t believe in it

#2 is more frequent than you’d imagine, yet, you never think about it.

This is a good book to understand some of the numbers and practices of the art industry. However, as an art collector driven by the love for art, I can see why so many got upset about the content. I know first-hand that galleries need better marketing skills; not sure about MBAs. https://t.co/njysLQDRcW

Veblen effect
Abnormal market behavior where consumers purchase the higher-priced goods whereas similar low-priced (but not identical) substitutes are available. It is caused either by the belief that higher price means higher quality, or by the desire for conspicuous consumption

As usual, really good blog posts from @algorithmia > 5 machine learning models you should know https://t.co/5Am7RkPzyw

This is quite remarkable (if it works). Can’t wait to try it > Announcing Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels https://t.co/iDrNYrZiXu

The #AWSreInvent has yet to start and Amazon has already announced over 200 new features (some quite significant) across all its services in the last two weeks. it will take *months* for customers to digest and understand how to leverage these new capabilities.

Building my agenda for the BlackHat Europe conference here in London next week. I hope to see some serious out-of-the-box thinking. #BHEU

It’s 2020. We have reusable rockets, life-saving genetic engineering, #AI-powered mass surveillance, and a cyber cold war conducted via information warfare

BUT

we cannot fix this.

Hence the question:
Dear web conferencing companies out there, what exactly are you doing? https://t.co/cQrhqNK0Hz

Here @TheEconomist uses GPT-2 to answer interview questions but the #AI cannot reply in new, original ways. It can only pick positions already expressed online somewhere: https://t.co/xdLJVMVjGV

Worth reading but it can be misleading.

I once met a high profile MSFT exec who told me “you’re one of the few people I know that enjoys SW licensing”. I don’t, but I’ll say this: licensing requires an extreme level of focus and discipline that very few humans have. Anything less and you turn sadistic without realising